Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

[QUOTE=goldey;3252967]

Originally Posted by Tombie

Threw the van on the back and headed off to Mundi Mundi Bash last week.

Another Faultless trip

How was the Bash Tombie? On my bucket list to get there next year. Music lineup always looks pretty good. How do they handle the logistics of that many people in the middle of woop woop. I assume everyone shows up fully self sufficient (water/grey water/gas/toilet etc)?

Cheers

Goldey

It was brilliant. Logistically they do a very good job of making things run smoothly.

Highly recommend getting an entry pass for as early as possible (3 day early, 2 day early etc) it gets you closer to the front of the camping area.

Self sufficiency is the thing, but not to the extreme.

There's plenty of food vendors if you want to go that way (we did 20% purchase, 80% cooked at camp)

You'll need water, there's no showers. Grey water can be discharged to ground - every camp made a small pit/hole to soak it in.

Toilets are kept so clean it's mind blowing!

Atmosphere is great, very friendly and casual.

Originally Posted by BradC

It arrived today in a Magneti Marelli box with a Magneti Marelli label. I figure given Denso acquired most of Magneti Marelli in 1999 it's legit.

Time will tell I suppose. I'll put it in on the weekend.

****ing ****ing **** ****.

So the alternators on the 2.7 TDV6 for the D3 and RRS are different. This one is for an RRS and equivs to a DAN 988. I have the DAN 987 which has a different connector. ****! Don't buy one of these for a D3.

****ing ****ing **** ****.

Originally Posted by BradC

****ing ****ing **** ****.

So the alternators on the 2.7 TDV6 for the D3 and RRS are different. This one is for an RRS and equivs to a DAN 988. I have the DAN 987 which has a different connector. ****! Don't buy one of these for a D3.

****ing ****ing **** ****.

Hmmm. What are you trying to say, Brad?

Originally Posted by Saitch

Dropped the D3 off at a tranny specialist, for a gearbox assessment/recon. Am standing by.

Interesting the number of Rangers in the yard. Also, a G-Wagon.

Hopefully, ready this coming week. Just over one month from drop off.

Had to take a small piece of gravel out from between the disc and backing plate on the right hand rear. Far better than it being a wheel bearing!

Originally Posted by BradC

****ing ****ing **** ****.

So the alternators on the 2.7 TDV6 for the D3 and RRS are different. This one is for an RRS and equivs to a DAN 988. I have the DAN 987 which has a different connector. ****! Don't buy one of these for a D3.

****ing ****ing **** ****.

Ok, so along with the different connector the alternator body is clocked differently to the outlet stud.



The brush set and regulator is the same. As is the mounting assembly for the back cover. I thought I'll just swap the reg and cover over, how hard can it be?

The regulator is crimped and then spot welded to a copper lug on the diode pack. I cut the new regulator off at the regulator end leaving the stud and crimped tag. I managed to peel the old regulator off the lug mostly, then cut the remainder of the lug out. This allowed me to swap the reg over and crimp the old connector around the lug/crimp on the new alternator. I then used liberal amounts of flux and solder to solder the thing together over the crimp. I really, really hope that holds.




Then I went to re-fit the alternator to find the positive cable is clocked and held in place with tabs. This would not suit the modified outlet stud position, so out it came and the bush modified with the dremel to allow me to rotate the positive cable to a position where it allowed the alternator to bolt up and didn't have bending strain on it. Excuse the shadow on the picture.



Back in place and all working.

What an arsehole of a job.

Edit: And to top it off, took it for a test drive and the whine is still there. The alternator was crunchy when rotated by hand, so it was on its last legs, but I can't figure out what other bearing up front has gone noisy. I hope it's the A/C pulley as that's the next easiest/cheapest to do. Time to get the proper mechanics stethoscope out I suppose.

Originally Posted by BradC

So the alternators on the 2.7 TDV6 for the D3 and RRS are different. This one is for an RRS and equivs to a DAN 988. I have the DAN 987 which has a different connector. ****! Don't buy one of these for a D3.

Was there anything on the box that indicated for which vehicle it was suitable that the seller should have made known?

Good that you managed to eventually get it to fit.

Originally Posted by Graeme

Was there anything on the box that indicated for which vehicle it was suitable that the seller should have made known?

Good that you managed to eventually get it to fit.

No, probably my fault.
The description was "Denso Alternator For 12V 150A Range Rover 2.7L V6 Diesel 2005-09". Pretty obvious. My bad for assuming the same motor in the same make car would have the same alternator I suppose. I blame coming home rolling drunk at midnight and purchasing on impulse.

Edit : Further research says the alternators for the RRS and the D3 *are* the same *provided* the RRS does not have ACE. This alternator would appear to be for the ACE version. It didn't help that the web site doesn't list a useful part number to check cross references.

Anyway it works and I got a good look at the guts. Now to figure out how to get the pulley off the old one and tear it down to see what was failing.