Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Fixed the front d/s cv today. Broke it at the spline and junked up my bearings with metal fragments etc so I cleaned out the swivel hub bearings, wheel bearings and put in a new cv so the beast is ready to roll again.

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Topless Disco at my place!
A man in a van came and removed the top, part of what was, a very hot Disco.
Now a cool sight to behold, exposure of the stripped down body.
I suppose you all now want to see, pictures of the topless disco at my place?

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Yes please, are you doing a custom or just ripping it apart for spares? 2 door or 4 door. You have my ears pricked up now.

Originally Posted by nicho

Yes please, are you doing a custom or just ripping it apart for spares? 2 door or 4 door. You have my ears pricked up now.

For D$$$$rs ! it is a 4 Door auto V8 and had it's interior badly burnt and around the the top of the V8. The burnt Disco needs a name. Should I be opening a new thread for suggestions for a name?

My parts are here from Ashcrofts today, they are for a rebuild of a suffix L R380 and a D2 LT230 transferbox, they are both out of TD5's , the reconditioned boxes will then go into my '96 Defender ( Bus ).

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rear bearings and hub seals, new rear shocks, washed and vaccumed

This is a bit of a long story but it has been a long two days search for a coolant bleed screw. It started yesterday when I parked the disco2 at the upper car park in the shopping centre (hot day [39c], stop start driving but car was ok) with seemingly no problems.
After shopping with the wife and 4 boys we return to see the disco has wee'ed most of its coolant out all over the car park seemingly from the rear of the engine. I checked the expansion tank and tried to id the source to no avail so I limped the car home with the four kids and the shopping. Once at home discovered the leak was coming from the heater inlet tube from the engine manifold. After taking it off the neighbour and I (cheers Matt) discovered that the O-Ring was well shagged and no longer sealed correctly, so quick call to his wife to pick up a replacement on her way home and should all be good. BUT NO it was not going to be that easy. After replacing the O-ring and refitting the inlet tube I filled the expansion tank and raised it, loosened the bleed screw and bled the system then on retightening the bleed screw it snapped into two main pieces and lots of little ones. So got all the bits out and attempted to ring around most of WA to try and find a replacement - NO DEAL.
Ok so what about a substitute? Well after searching many forums last night and today we came to realise that the bleed screw is a 10mm diameter by a 1mm fine pitch thread which is a British Cycle thread (yes a push bike thread) we didn't believe this but no bull screwed a standard bicycle wheel hub straight into the bleed screw thread perfect fit. After a little more research the best substitute was a derailleur bolt (holds the rear gear selector to your bike frame). So before we start I get Matt to take me into Auto-pro to get the replacement coolant and some new hose to replace the plastic coolant pipes. So off to the bolt store first (they told me they had one yesterday) - NO DEAL the guy behind the counter today says the guys yesterday must have been on crack cause he doesn't have anything like that.
So down to the local bike shop - NO DEAL need to buy the whole derailleur to get the bolt and no spares but Stuart did offer to let us rummage through his shed to see if he had a spare. So off to Stuart's place; however on the way I remember my mountain bike is in Anaconda being fixed because the rear derailleur snapped off and went into the back tyre a few weeks ago (that’s another story) so we head to anaconda (which just happened to be next to Auto-pro where the day started) and WINNER the derailleur bolt is the same size and thread and nice and short. So home we go.
So now I get the system bled tighten the derailleur bolt as the substitute bleed screw and we are just about good to go then SNAP there goes the plastic radiator overflow hose.
You knew it wasn't going to end there didn't you
So out with the replacement hose and clips for an hour or so to replace the plastic hoses then time to bleed the system again.
All is going well until I undo the new replacement bleed screw to far and it shoots off into the engine/engine bay somewhere ...

NEVER TO BE FOUND

I kid you not it disappeared into the ether we searched for an hour with torches and magnetic probes looking into every nock and cranny of the engine and didn't find it anywhere.

So now what; well it just so happens that the wife has exactly the same pushbike that I do so off comes its derailleur bolt to get the car fixed then bled the system and success it is good to go!!!

Now I am looking forward to the saga of finding another derailleur bolt to fix the wife’s' bike so not treating it like a car part I ring the closest bike shop ad he says he doesn't think he has one but has a junk bike that is being thrown out that I can look at.

Now into the car and drive to the bike shop two minutes away and SUCCESS it is exactly the same so now the car is fixed and the wife’s' bike is fixed

Here is the moral of the story if you are stuck for a bleeder screw have a look at the bolt holding the kids rear gear derailleur onto the bike frame.

Additionally it has got me thinking has anyone done a swap of the T-piece for a brass fitting or PVC pipe fitting with a more "normal" bolt size and thread configuration?


And thats what I did for my Disco today



Cheers

Roge

2003 D2 V8 2" Lift, Bendix Brakes, DBA Slotted rotors, Bullbar, 9000XT driving lights and Bilsteins all round.

Fitted my new Pro trac steering guard which has built in recovery eyes

Well I`m finally back to doing the little things I should have been doing months ago, instead of replacing a gearbox. Have been tiding up the wiring and other minor niggles over the last few days. High/low beam switch was a foot pedal. There is a perfectly good column switch that was not been used? Go figure. Any way I now have a combination indicator and high/low beam switch on the column. There was one contact that needed a resolder. Also while I had the dash apart I removed the right angle drive on the speedo. The cable connects ok with out this and eliminates a speedo wobble. Today I looked at the fuel gauge again. Connected a earth to the gauge and will see if that helps it work. Gauge does move but only just of empty.
Cheers Hall

Today on my D2 TD5 - replaced Transmission Oil and Filter, re-replaced a coolant hose that was still leaking.

All seems much better (hold thumbs)