Thread: Stirlsilver's Disco Ute Project

The culprit...

That's a shame about the oil leak but there just had to be something, didn't there? What coolant temperature did you get up to? Of course it sounds great, and well done!

Roll up your sleeves though - I thought the video was going to have a different ending there for a minute!

Well done mate and very excited you deserve to be even with the standard LR thing of marking it`s territory

That is sweet.

Congrats on a successful first start, even if there is a small oil leak

Lovely lovely sound. I'm on a commuter train watching on phone and listening with earbuds. I wanted to say yeehaa but a bit constrained here.

Well done! Amazing what you have achieved.

Great work Stirling, really well done mate!!

Cheers,
Tricky

Sweeeeeet!!!!

Thanks for the comments everyone on the first start! I've been away in Oman doing some work on a power station over there. Although that included a very usual time where we were dancing at the power station as part of Oman National day!



Anyway, on to the work that has been achieved so far...

I think I have solved the oil leak problem. The culprit was a dodgy copper washer that I used. While I had everything apart, I decided to instead use a combination of a larger copper washer with an O-ring behind it.



Also, as I think I had mentioned earlier, I finished the wiring to install two temperature sensors upstream of the intercoolers. These sensors will allow me to detect if there is a problem with one turbo (because there will be temperature difference then).

Running the cables


Hooking them up to the ECU


After checking that the sensors read accurately (enough) they were installed




All the blow off valves were fitted up
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One of the items that was given to me by the last engineering inspection was the obstruction of the bullbar to the indicator. So a few extra lights had to be added.
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On one of the weekends, Ana joined me and snapped a couple of photos. One being of a poor frog that had jumped into a tray full of oil and obviously lost it's life. Derrick decided to throw into a jar full of metho to preserve it. One of the fatalities of the workshop I suppose.
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Then, it was time to get onto the guards. After fitting the 35" tyres, they definitely fouled with the guards when I took the springs out. So they were chopped back.
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Finally, after putting all the suspension back together, I could move on with putting the new front drive shaft which had the wide angle universal joints. You will see there is a fair difference between the original and the new.
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If I'm lucky I might be able to take the car out to start bedding in the engine and the new brakes on Sunday! But let's see if anything goes wrong first...