TDI300 Flexplate problem?

Stanleysteamer said:

My attitude is that if the OP is happy to chat then I am happy to oblige. He is new to the forum so maybe you had better give him a little lesson, meanwhile I will take the slapped wrist and carry on, but I did mention that we were getting off topic and also the possibility of messaging. So there we go!
(I'm not the only person who goes off topic, so if you are going to have a pop at me fine, just load your pop gun cos there are loads of others for you to pop at!!) No offence intended to all those who read a thread and expect it to rigidly stick to exactly that topic.

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Well back on topic now, I decided to take a chance and managed to do 6 trips to the quarry in the last two days just under 10 tonnes of sand and gravel in fact the total weight of the disco trailer and a load of gravel is about 4.5 tonnes, so it has dragged 27 tonnes up the hill in total, I was a bit worried about driving up our road as it is narrow and steep with a drop on one side and didn't want it to give up on me half way up , so I went the back way via the forest tracks, anyway I think trip 6 was the last, I now have oil dripping out of the front of the gearbox, so I think the next trip will be to the scrapyard hopefully it will get there, annoyingly i thought I was going to manage a couple more and put a load of fuel in that I will have to siphon out.
Anyway thanks for all the help.

Dave

Dave Widgery said:

Well back on topic now, I decided to take a chance and managed to do 6 trips to the quarry in the last two days just under 10 tonnes of sand and gravel in fact the total weight of the disco trailer and a load of gravel is about 4.5 tonnes, so it has dragged 27 tonnes up the hill in total, I was a bit worried about driving up our road as it is narrow and steep with a drop on one side and didn't want it to give up on me half way up , so I went the back way via the forest tracks, anyway I think trip 6 was the last, I now have oil dripping out of the front of the gearbox, so I think the next trip will be to the scrapyard hopefully it will get there, annoyingly i thought I was going to manage a couple more and put a load of fuel in that I will have to siphon out.
Anyway thanks for all the help.
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Well done mate, and just shows how robust the Disco can be even with its problem!
Must admit we always get our gravel delivered, either in bulk or in "Big Bags". Wondering a bit why you didn't get that done although if the road is too naroow I suppose the trucks just can't get up there.
Two years ago, Feb, a lorry delivering to a neighbouring farmer, hay,the roll type, got just in front of our land, narrow road, soft verges, and panicked a bit about over-hanging trees so veered off a bit towards our place and could feel his truck starting to go over. So he got out, slipped the ratchet straps and dumped 20 1/2 tonne bails of staw, crashing through our fence and just missing our polytunnel. you cans ee one of them nearly touching it.

The farmer and her father eventually dragged them out, despite the rain and she, and her partner, bless them, then temporarily repaired the fence, even pouring concrete and I got onto the insurance. The wa nker who ran the transport company played sill bug gers and in the end it cost him €2000 for an €800 job so we did alright. but what idiots,eh?
Are you scrapping the Disco cos of rust as well as the flexplate issue?
Seems such a shame when it is obviously going quite well. but then we have never seen it and you see it every day. Not that I am looking to buy another one! Two D1s and a D2 are quite enough to be going on with!
Funny though cos a coupla years ago Rob offered to buy any D1s or D2s I could get hold of, and the secondhand value of them is astronomical compared to what we pay over here. All he said was, they have to have an MOT.
You really are proving how bullet proof they are. Love the D1!