Essex lanes

So the new 'Fender of mine should be on the road by the weekend. Who's up for a bit of laning Saturday afternoon? Need to break it in lol.

James1966 said:

I bet their torquewrench is a scaffold pole, farmers are not known for spending on bits of kit like that.

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Spot on, spoke to farm manager today and laughed when I asked if they had one. Hopefully pressbrake will come good and can finally get back on the road with a quiet engine,still not sorted steering bar will take it tomorrow and see if I get time.

Co-Pang-Yang said:

So the new 'Fender of mine should be on the road by the weekend. Who's up for a bit of laning Saturday afternoon? Need to break it in lol.

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Looking forward to seeing it tomorrow

Looks good, bonnet is currently a shelf for random crap! :lol:

Co-Pang-Yang said:

So the new 'Fender of mine should be on the road by the weekend. Who's up for a bit of laning Saturday afternoon? Need to break it in lol.

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is that the one you were working on when i picked up the axle?

Hi all,

I'm new to the website and to Landrovers... Recently purchased a discovery tdi300.

Got it muddy for the first time on sunday at 'essex offroad' and it was brilliant fun....

Would be up for a bit of green laning....

Cheers.

Ben....

Ben123 said:

Hi all,

I'm new to the website and to Landrovers... Recently purchased a discovery tdi300.

Got it muddy for the first time on sunday at 'essex offroad' and it was brilliant fun....

Would be up for a bit of green laning....

Cheers.

Ben....

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Glad you Had a good time, keep an eye out on here we are always arranging trips out when our landys ain't broke

wangie46 said:

Glad you Had a good time, keep an eye out on here we are always arranging trips out when our landys ain't broke

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'when' being the word... I am hoping to swap my t/box this week, waiting on an island4x4 box to drop on me doorstep and then I can get on with it and hopefully be out for some lanes soon... I am planning to get to the epping lane you done on sunday, that looked fun!!

Jongould said:

epping lane you done on sunday, that looked fun!!

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Don't forget your winch or a tow.

Had a delivery today




So shall hopefully fitting this week, plan is to run waste gate and gauge from inlet manifold and keep the fuel pump boost pipe on the turbo, and up the boost a little what psi do ya recon i should take it up to?

wangie46 said:

Had a delivery today

So shall hopefully fitting this week, plan is to run waste gate and gauge from inlet manifold and keep the fuel pump boost pipe on the turbo, and up the boost a little what psi do ya recon i should take it up to?

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There will be no benifit running the wastegate from the manifold IMO, you can make up for the boost drop by adjusting the actuator arm and if your running the gauge at the manifold you will be working at inlet pressures anyway, just adding more work for yourself there. I ran my disco at 1.2bar for a short while, one hell of a turbo whistle but did go a bit better...

Jongould said:

There will be no benifit running the wastegate from the manifold IMO, you can make up for the boost drop by adjusting the actuator arm and if your running the gauge at the manifold you will be working at inlet pressures anyway, just adding more work for yourself there. I ran my disco at 1.2bar for a short while, one hell of a turbo whistle but did go a bit better...

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Funny enough James told me to leave boost pipes as is and just run gauge off inlet manifold as well so I think I'll leave alone

I did run mine at 1.2bar till the turbo was blowing smoke & had too much play in it. Put on a new one but left it at 0.8bar

1 bar max for 200tdi, my 300 gets to 16psi which is around 1.1bar I think.
get one of these they work well and also stop wastegate creep, the wastegate can start to open at 6-8psi so slowing the spool up time a bit, they can also be used to adjust boost without the need to adjust the operating rod which is a right pain on the 300tdi.

good luck Geoff getting that bolt undone, have you got a good impact socket ? your mains impact wrench would be a good bet to undo it, on mine I struggled to undo it without the clutch slipping, (in gear foot on brake)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TURBO-MAN...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item33590834bd

Wangie take the boost gauge from the turbo side of the manifold that way you are seeing exactly what boost is at the turbo as that is what the wastegate/ boost guage is protecting, it is also where the fuel pump takes its feed from.

EGT is your enemy!

Yep, was surprised how a minimal adjustment to fuel pump and boost sent the EGT upto near 700deg mark.

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Wangie take the boost gauge from the turbo side of the manifold that way you are seeing exactly what boost is at the turbo as that is what the wastegate/ boost guage is protecting, it is also where the fuel pump takes its feed from.

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The problem is that with the larger IC you will get a pressure drop, you need to see what the boost is at the inlets rather than the turbo and then increase the boost to compensate

Well finally got the crank damper fitted, lot quieter now. Got the crank bolt out with gun, managed to borrow a huge torque wrench to torque up new one, me and Mikey swinging on the end of wrench and bar to get upto 330lb/ft. Also got the HD steering bar and new set up on, ****ed off the RTC damper bracket has broken. Will get some pics up of it tomorrow.
Big thanks to Mikey for the help and tea,nice one Clive for the Monster wrench.
So if anyone's out the weekend.

Just put a deposit down on a 2008 disco 3 hse. It won't be Greenland lol more for the wife n kids ant wait. Something to enjoy while mines being sorted