Selling up and buying a cherokee

Jazza
1. Buy a Camry (or similar) and use as daily drive.
2. Use Disco as fun machine.
3. keep Disco at parents (that's what they're for).

Easy really.

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Originally Posted by jazzaD1

Yeah, it is a mate's truck, i used it to pick up my diesel disco about 5 months back, but not since then

I initially had plans to turbo my v8, and bought the turbo, intercooler, wastegate and some other bits for it, then decided to rebuild the engine beforehand since on a prior trip to the high country it was overheating a bit, and was down on power, i bought some of the parts needed from paddocks, and while doing the sums for what it was going to cost, i found a diesel disco on ebay, it required a transfer case, it was the right price so i bought it, i am currently in the process of reinstalling the gearbox, and after that was done i was going to get it registered

recently i have had second thoughts, partially being fuelled by the fact that where i am living now, a disco with decent tyres and a lift will not fit under my garage door, and i am sick of working on it at my parents place

i have no idea how the reliability is of the tdi, having only ever driven the v8i, i was really keen to get it up and running, but i think im just a bit sick of discoverys at the moment

but then again.... i keep changing my mind, it will be cheaper to just register the diesel disco and repair what needs fixing, i think i need to go and test drive an XJ cherokee and see what its all about, i might hate it, who knows?

If you plan on doing any offroading, you'll need to beef up the axles and CVs, they are pretty week, also the prop shaft uni's too.

Go to the Aussiejeepoffroad forum, lots of threads on what you need to do to them for offroad work, get the diesel too, they are more reliable.

Baz.

if you want reliability and a 4x4 buy a mid 70's cruiser diesel, ive seen a few of them roll over the 1 000 000k's mark and keep going. but they have the ride of a house brick, power of a juiced lemon and luxury of an Indonesian fishing boat. but good luck with what ever you buy. personally il stick with the monetary black hole that is my p38, and now the 95 commodore i drive to work, cos the p38 is a little tooooo thirsty.
landrovers if you modify every single part you will have a "brand new" bomb proof 4wd. im almost there. ;)