Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

I do, because it was done at a Land Rover dealership before my time and I have the invoice

When was it done DJ?

Asking, to hopefully confirm at that stage the part wasn't revision 8 or whatever they are now up to...

Originally Posted by Graeme

The manifolds had been revised at least 8 times by the time my son bought new ones for his MY10 3.0 D4 about 3 years ago. The new ones were far stronger in the initial weak spots, having reinforcing ribs and being noticibly thicker on the flatter areas. Only the RH one was required at the time but the LH one will be fitted in a week or 2.

Eight times seems rediculous,one would think most manufacturers would have had it sorted at the second attempt.

The Puma clutch was no different,lots of revisions and most Indies still wont use the genuine product.

Many manufacturers have been running inlet manifolds made from composite plastic materials for decades,but maybe not on Turbo engines where there is pressure in the manifold.

My RHS was changed at 162,000km on 12/09/14. Failed again at 321,000km and Oct 22. So it got 8 years and 160,000km. Given it originally lasted only 4-5 years, it was better. Still a shame.

I have bought so many injector pipes for this thing with manifolds and injector replacements. Yes I’m a good one who changes them each time.

Originally Posted by Graeme

The manifolds had been revised at least 8 times by the time my son bought new ones for his MY10 3.0 D4 about 3 years ago. The new ones were far stronger in the initial weak spots, having reinforcing ribs and being noticibly thicker on the flatter areas. Only the RH one was required at the time but the LH one will be fitted in a week or 2.

The irony was when I knew the first got 160k I had this underlying feeling from 320k that I’d expected another failure. I can’t believe it was nearly km perfect. It was within a thousand km of the same time. More years but practically identical km.
At least I know the LHS will go at around 400,000km.

Originally Posted by scarry

Eight times seems rediculous,one would think most manufacturers would have had it sorted at the second attempt.

Some of the revisions could have been to add more tabs for locating pipes etc on later engines but my real point is that the manifolds had been beefed-up in lots of places, possibly gradually strengthening the next point to fail after fixing a weaker spot.
The ones that my son bought were very new versions, having only just become available.

After 11 days sitting idle in the driveway, I drove it. It started 1st time, and had only dropped enough for me to notice a quick "psh" at each end. Odd given the temperature fluctuations over the last week or so, but then it's always determined to surprise. I figured I'd come home and it'd be on the bump stops with a flat battery. Still if you start with low expectations a pleasant surprise is a more likely outcome.

Inspired by HarryO's bracket for his UHF, I mounted a Uniden X76 under the dash, drivers side.

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Inspired by (the other) Scott's plug-able radio handset install, I replaced one of the 12V accessory sockets with an RJ45 socket for the mike. The UHF radio is powered by the (now spare) 12V circuit.
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And connected the radio to a (previously installed) Uniden AT500BK antenna mounted with the Lab Electronics bracket.
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Joined the club on the way home from Fraser, I washed the underbody and had the mobile guy come and detail it again for me.. Looking good again to get to work again next week