Thread: Embarrassment

Originally Posted by banjo

Na i wish i could say i hope so , BUT i know its not. Karen has been to the doctors about it & there still running tests . She also has an abnormal kidney function.. Also karen is going through menapause which isnt helping. All her womanly things have been turned off & emotions. She just hates life in general & is now hatting the tattoos she got from the shop when we had a break a couple of years ago. She thinks she is old fat ugly hopeless..Says she is happy here with me but nothing else.. Will just have to see what happens..& hope for the best.. I know all to well what its like to be like she is at the moment i feel like that most weeks. But i am a FAT so & so I cant even see me toes without bending to see em..












I think also with my parents saying they would help buy a house finaly then just not worrying about it & changing the subject everytime it was brought up didnt help.We both got our hopes up only to be kicked in the teeth yet again by them.Funny thing is we only want to buy a house for around the $40,000 mark & most sell for much less then that. They make double that in there cash jobs a year , But they want to retire next year so dont want to help.. Which is fine but dont say you want to help when you dont want to help at all..

Karen you are not fat and ugly.

sounds like you 2 need a holiday in your new discovery

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

sounds like you 2 need a holiday in your new discovery

Yeah ya could be right. BUT i have to sort that bloody thing out.Well its not smoking under the dash now BUT that doesnt mean its fixed I'd say the wire causing the smoke has burnt right through so now i have to take the whole dash out & find the wire & where it goes & why it shorted enough to burn.. And i realy dont want to do it at all period..I think if i new this thing was going to be like this i would of just used the money & built Harry a year ago. I think i hate working on any cars so much cause of this house with no garage.I do not enjoy working on cars anymore at all & its probably only because of this crapy house..

Theres probably a lot of other reasons aswell..

Originally Posted by banjo

The suspension is cactus the rear shocks just flop around

So you probably can get second hand shocks from someone who is wrecking one, or doing a body lift. That is what we did. Hint, the RR classic suspension should fit, and a RRC can be very cheap. Know of complete registered ones going for only $500, so it should not cost you much for a suspension.


Need to replace the snorkel as i we can get booked for the whole in the gaurd GGGGGRRRRR..

I have seen homemade snorkels made from guttering down pipe, or made from exhaust Pipe. Should not be hard if you can borrow a pipe bender to do the bends. One that looked good to me was a strait section of stainless steel pipe, with down pipe plastic bends for the curves. If you use all down pipe it would be much cheaper than exhaust pipe/metal pipe. Or just make a vent to cover that hole where the snorkel once was—this vent does not even have to work, and a plumbers plastic grid with fly mesh underneath would probably do you to cover that hole and look as if it is deliberately done. Or get a sheet metal grid, cut it, and weld or pop rivet it on. Or just aluminium fly screen and a ruber on the sharp edges. No one restores a disco to look original.

Oh and if there is a council cleanup or someone renovating you can often find scrap bits of down pipe. And you can spray paint it. I saw a snorkel with a construction helmet for a cap—inlet to the snorkel, Looked very good. And we sometimes do see a helmet along the road—in an OP-Shop. If you have a local tip shop you may find things to suit.
Have not seen it but Darth Vader or a hells angle Helmet could also look good.
Oh, and I have seen snorkels with just an open rear facing pipe inlet. Some filters are cheaper than others—I think it is the square box one that is expensive, the air filter that we do have.



Seriously needs a bullbar to..

Old Range Rover bull bars may fit. We put one on a Defender we were selling before blowing its Diesel motor. But you may need to try before you buy as they are not a perfect fit—but usable. We do have 4 bull bars for sale for RR/D1, and I am sure you can find a good one locally. I would get a winch bar if possible.

We also have to find the whole floor carpet & get some new mats.

Council Clean up day will get you your mats, if not carpet peaces to glue on..

I guess it will be a work in progress. Lets just hope i can get this SMOKEY dash fixed before the rego runs out or it will have been a waste of money & time.... I do like the car tho.. It is the original 3.5 not a 3.9 Dunno where the last owner got that it had been changed from but it hasnt ..

I thought the 3.9 was standard in the disco, but may be wrong. So it may have been fitted with an earlier RRC motor if it is fitted with the 3:5. Do not know for sure, so do not quote me on this matter.

Needs a good tune up as the engine is a little smokey. New plugs maybe some leads & clean the throttle body out a bit & see what happens.

Do a compression test first if you have a gauge.

Ill have to put the alloys on it . They are smaller but have great tyres although they look CHEAP & TACKY

Sell them on Gumtree or AULRO if you can get the money for them. Steel wheels are better for off road use--Stronger. Many years ago Aquarangie sold his Range Rover mags to swap to steel rims, as these are stronger [on his Range Rover]. You may be able to change your good tyres to the steel rims, and then sell just the mag rims without tyres. Don’t know.

oh yeah the front drivers side tyre is slowly going down i noticed today as well. Oh & we need to replace both head lights as they are very rust on the inside..

Illegal but I would put HIDs in—they are much brighter, But could get you defected or fined. Chrome spray can on the reflectors and HID’s might work. Jaycar kit is $79.00 for high and low beam H4 HIDs—but we do have to find out why one of our HIDs from Jaycar is no longer working.

Cant think of anything else except that BLOODY dash smoking up bad.. Its driving me crazy its so hard to get under the dash in these things.. The green one ya just undo 2 big screws & pull the dash out.. The instrument cluster anyway..


Dash it!

GOOD LUCK and best wishes. Do hope you got it cheap. They can do up nice. Oh and the ride is great compared to a real Land Rover with leaf springs .


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John, the early Disco's did come with a 3.5 litre V8, I just checked a Haynes manual!!! Anyway, you are a mine of info, otherwise!!!

the 2 doors were 3.5 v8 and 200tdi only from memory

dag nam it. Papa smurf couldnt get work off for glenreigh so it will be just me which means twice the trips.

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

dag nam it. Papa smurf couldnt get work off for glenreigh so it will be just me which means twice the trips.

The varmint!!!!