Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Mine has started to give a loud groan or creak when turning left close to full lock from front left wheel. Lower ball joint near new. Assume my roll bar bushes or links are likely culprit?

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Mine has started to give a loud groan or creak when turning left close to full lock from front left wheel. Lower ball joint near new. Assume my roll bar bushes or links are likely culprit?

Or joint just other side of firewall.

Originally Posted by Tombie

What happened? Well my LV is broken (Toyota) so I’ve driven it out to the mine for the day

Think I’ll stripe it all up so I can bring it out more often rather than under escort.

When I wanted to take mine onto a certain iron ore mining site (back when the vehicle was originally purchased, this was part of its intended duty), I was told that I had to install a roll cage as well as stripes / flag / commercial 2 way radio etc. I told them what they could do with their roll cage, and told them to hire me a rice burner for site work.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Or joint just other side of firewall.

Anti-Roll bar? It’s something that isn’t liking anymore slow speed tight steering. It’s a noise you hear often in car parks from older cars.

A week or so ago I gave mine a BAS tune and EGR delete. Has made a noticeable difference to the way it performs - especially when overtaking road trains.

Over the last week or so, I have been trying to "recover" my second Optima Yellow Top auxiliary battery (this one has only lasted around a year and has apparently dropped a cell) with no success.
So, after checking out what was available, decided to try to install a Fullriver DC85-12 85AH deep cycle AGM battery (I won't touch another Optima product). The Fullriver is a perfect fit on the Traxide battery mounting platform in my Disco, though it is right on the limit for height. Even though this battery has no normal raised "posts" - if you mount the battery with the post holes / leads towards the front of the vehicle, the bonnet hits on the bolt holding the negative cable onto the battery - enough to stop the passenger side bonnet latch from engaging. So, I turned the battery round with the "posts" toward the rear of the engine bay, and Jaycar provided me with a couple of longer battery cables. Fits perfectly and the bonnet closes without touching anything. Had to fabricate a new battery clamp out of a couple of longer "hooks" I had on the shelf and a length of leather belt.

So I'm happy - gone from 55AH Optima (which has proven to be a very unreliable product) to 85AH Fullriver - I hope they are as good as I've been told they are.

Previous Optima installation - IMGA0734.jpg

Fullriver installation IMG_2046.jpgIMG_2047.jpg

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Anti-Roll bar? It’s something that isn’t liking anymore slow speed tight steering. It’s a noise you hear often in car parks from older cars.

On the steering shaft just forward of the firewall

Originally Posted by BMKal

...... Fits perfectly and the bonnet closes without touching anything. Had to fabricate a new battery clamp out of a couple of longer "hooks" I had on the shelf and a length of leather belt.

So I'm happy - gone from 55AH Optima (which has proven to be a very unreliable product) to 85AH Fullriver - I hope they are as good as I've been told they are.

I like the leather belt but surprised you can get enough tension, must be tough. Also, maybe the positive lead should be covered just in case there’s a situation where the bonnet touches and shorts? Seems very very unlikely but would be all bad if it did happen.

Cheers,
Scott

Originally Posted by BMKal

A week or so ago I gave mine a BAS tune and EGR delete. Has made a noticeable difference to the way it performs - especially when overtaking road trains.

Over the last week or so, I have been trying to "recover" my second Optima Yellow Top auxiliary battery (this one has only lasted around a year and has apparently dropped a cell) with no success....................

Made in Mexico Optima I assume, my Mexican Optima was down 36% IIRC when my mechanic tested it and it is also only a year old, so I tested if it would start the D3 which it did just, but that was with a decent set of 800 amp jumper cables, pro'ly would've done better if I'd hooked it up direct to the battery cables.