Thread: The Disco Broke Down Today.

8) thats a sadness, i replaced my trans cooler hoses with pirtek and they are held on with hose clamps - as i recall the cooler lines only carry about 30 psi so a hose clamp does nicely.
i did have to do some fancy cutting to get the swaged hoses off!

Same here.

Pirtek high temp hose.

Michael.

I feel for ya mate, I myself am in the midst of a gearbox dilemma. Not quite as easy to fix as yours was though.
Rebuild or replace time :roll:

A pirtek, enzed, hydraulinc stc mobile van could have done the jobby for you on the spot and probablly would have been much cheaper. This hose is not under any great pressure and should be available off the roll. You would have then to only fill the box back up with oil and take home and degrease. The reason LR are reluctant to use aftermarket hose is that while they charge something like $50 per metre most mobile vans sell it for under $10 per metre and even with a $50 call out fee that some do or dont charge would have only been about $100 max. Keep them in mind in the future. Most will negate a call out charge if the job is decent, sometimes meaning getting the to make a few spares for the rest of your lines and not incurring a call out cost.

Interesting comments. For $100.00 and some oil I could have called someone else! I'll put their emergency numbers in my diary. Thanks guys!

The dealer told me today that LR no longer supply the individual hoses but they now come as a kit of 2 hoses and some brackets for around $400.00. There is a three week wait on them....

They had to get the local Enzed place to make a hose (using the original fittings) for $40.00 to get me going again. I think I'll follow the advice here and go for after-market hoses next time. The LR bloke told me the inlet hose was the one that let go and it is the "high pressure" hose. I don't ever recall an auto tranny running "high pressure". It would be blowing seals left right and centre! 30PSI or so is hardly high pressure.

Enzed, Pirtek and others have been in the game a bloomin' long time and I doubt that they would have schonky kit. I'll get under the truck on the week-end and have a look at the handywork.

I tried to get a Disco 3 on 24hr loan/test drive but they wouldn't be in it!

Anyway, got back home without any dramas and they did a pretty good job of cleaning up the mess. The disco won't rust underneath for a while.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

glad to hear you got it sorted! heres hoping thats where the fun ends!

well...to be honest....the dealership used to get enzed to repair leaking hoses all the time for out of warranty jobs.

the mechanics would remove and refit the hose and top up oils and wash down the mess....


they were probably charging the same price as a new hose(well the hose was new) but they would use the metal pipes on the ends and just get enzed to replace the hose....transmission fluid and heat seems to harden hoses over time and they leak at the joints.

Originally posted by Moses


I tried to get a Disco 3 on 24hr loan/test drive but they wouldn't be in it!

Its called upselling and they are doing a **** poor job [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]