What happened to your D3/D4 today?

**Tombie** · 5th January 2020, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by John_D4

You read the bit where I said it was my 1st repair right?

I did, I was only highlighting not to leave it as a permanent repair. Emergency only.

**loanrangie** · 5th January 2020, 03:25 PM

Swapped my short roof rails for long rails with another forum member so he could fit his prospeed rack, helps me and I quite like the look.

**Barraman** · 5th January 2020, 09:34 PM

Just completed a 6,000 km Xmas odyssey about 4,000 of that towing a 6.7 M boat - 1 x flat tyre, 1 x new battery, 1 x top radiator hose!

josh.huber · 9th January 2020, 07:45 PM

Starting to change out both inlet manifolds.
Wish me luck

Also doing the coolant junction on top while I'm in there. Although it's original and hasn't shown a sign of a problem yet. Just have gotten lucky

**DiscoJeffster** · 9th January 2020, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by josh.huber

Starting to change out both inlet manifolds.
Wish me luck

Also doing the coolant junction on top while I'm in there. Although it's original and hasn't shown a sign of a problem yet. Just have gotten lucky

Advice. Don’t forget to use liquid gasket sealant at junction, corners of the cam retainers on the rubber gasket. It’ll leak otherwise.

josh.huber · 9th January 2020, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Advice. Don’t forget to use liquid gasket sealant at junction, corners of the cam retainers on the rubber gasket. It’ll leak otherwise.

The advice should be to pay someone to do it.
One of the engine cover holders. The ones that extend over the bolts with the balls on the end. Snapped. Need to make noise to remove the last bolt before getting the first cover off.

Thanks for the tip. I've got some three bond here left over from the blue thing on the left of the photo

josh.huber · 9th January 2020, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Advice. Don’t forget to use liquid gasket sealant at junction, corners of the cam retainers on the rubber gasket. It’ll leak otherwise.

Which junction??

**DiscoJeffster** · 9th January 2020, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by josh.huber

Which junction??

At the back. There is a half moon where the rubber gasket goes over the cam. At the two corners you need sealant in there as the rubber gasket won’t get into the corners properly.

PeterJ · 9th January 2020, 09:20 PM

Hi all, after looking at quite a few DRL install ideas went with this idea from BMKal with a slight change.DRL_5.jpg DRL_4.jpg DRL_3.jpg DRL_2.jpg DRL_1.jpg

Sorry about the wrong way up, just have to stand on yer-head, anyhow, OL bars have a fill molding between the bar and the headlights. I cut into it to recess the lights and away we go. The lights are connected to the turn indicators and do a sequential light in the direction of the arrows.

**Milton477** · 12th January 2020, 12:33 PM

Replaced the front lower control arms after 113k km. Easy enough job, nothing was rusted & I marked the position of all of the cams. No need to push out the front drive shafts as there was enough room to get the lower ball joint out of it's taper.

I have tightened all but 1 of the bolts using the correct torque settings. The bolt on the rear of the passenger side control arm is obstructed by part of the exhaust & I wondered what others thought about how to solve the access problem. I thought about cutting the bolt shorter as it blocks the square of a standard socket & then grinding the socket so that the torque wrench fits. For now, a good few clouts on the spanner with a lump hammer will have to do.

See the attached pics:

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