What have you done to your Landie today.

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Been glad to get back in it!!! Drove my business partner's megane home last night as it needed the radio fixing and a water leak looking at (must be distantly related to a landrover!). Not sure how I agreed to looking after her car as well as my own and my wife's, but never mind. Radio fixed, water leak hopefully solved, and car dropped back to bath and back in the Disco!

Don't get me wrong - it was fast, cornered nicely, all those things that a D2 isn't. And it was doing 49mpg. But it isn't a landrover.*


*Although it has so many landrover traits. Renault electrics are just as unrealiable as landrover. And renaults seem to be as good at leaking as landrovers!
 
Broke down again today. My TD5 engine cut out on the way to the shops this morning. Fortunately kindly passers by pushed us into the car park of a nearby Lidl and I had a bit of a look at what might be wrong. No oil in loom, no obvious fuel leaks, no noise from the fuel pump. Aha! That must be the problem. I shorted out the relay and got it humming but no sign of the engine firing. I also noticed that pressing the accelerator multiple times did not initiate the purge sequence. A quick look with the Nanocom told me that it would not communicate with the ECU. Ooer, maybe it's another ECU failure. I called the AA and when the man turned up he checked the same sorts of things I had. The ECU wouldn't talk to his diagnostic kit either. Hmm. He reckoned that because he could detect 12v and 5v at the airflow meter and manifold sensor the ECU must be doing something, so it was probably a fuel problem. Whilst the fuel pump runs he said it was hardly drawing any current so it may merely be spinning but not delivering fuel. Anyway, I got them to bring me home and will look at a few more things at my leisure. Firstly I've got the battery on charge. Then I'll see if I can get a fuel pressure reading. But I suspect it's primarily an ECU problem due to lack of communication and lack of a purge sequence.

While I was waiting for the AA a man came up in a Disco 2 and started talking to me about Land Rover matters. He said his was a 4 litre TD5. I expressed puzzlement, but he assured me this was the case. I thought I'd googled my way through pretty much everything ever posted on the internet about TD5s but haven't come across this. Can such things be?
 
Brown said:
Broke down again today. My TD5 engine cut out on the way to the shops this morning. Fortunately kindly passers by pushed us into the car park of a nearby Lidl and I had a bit of a look at what might be wrong. No oil in loom, no obvious fuel leaks, no noise from the fuel pump. Aha! That must be the problem. I shorted out the relay and got it humming but no sign of the engine firing. I also noticed that pressing the accelerator multiple times did not initiate the purge sequence. A quick look with the Nanocom told me that it would not communicate with the ECU. Ooer, maybe it's another ECU failure. I called the AA and when the man turned up he checked the same sorts of things I had. The ECU wouldn't talk to his diagnostic kit either. Hmm. He reckoned that because he could detect 12v and 5v at the airflow meter and manifold sensor the ECU must be doing something, so it was probably a fuel problem. Whilst the fuel pump runs he said it was hardly drawing any current so it may merely be spinning but not delivering fuel. Anyway, I got them to bring me home and will look at a few more things at my leisure. Firstly I've got the battery on charge. Then I'll see if I can get a fuel pressure reading. But I suspect it's primarily an ECU problem due to lack of communication and lack of a purge sequence.

While I was waiting for the AA a man came up in a Disco 2 and started talking to me about Land Rover matters. He said his was a 4 litre TD5. I expressed puzzlement, but he assured me this was the case. I thought I'd googled my way through pretty much everything ever posted on the internet about TD5s but haven't come across this. Can such things be?
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I thought the V8 was a 4-litre not the TD ...

Still can't think of any VW van TD engine at 4-litre, (which is the basic block) ...
 
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Brown said:
Broke down again today. My TD5 engine cut out on the way to the shops this morning. Fortunately kindly passers by pushed us into the car park of a nearby Lidl and I had a bit of a look at what might be wrong. No oil in loom, no obvious fuel leaks, no noise from the fuel pump. Aha! That must be the problem. I shorted out the relay and got it humming but no sign of the engine firing. I also noticed that pressing the accelerator multiple times did not initiate the purge sequence. A quick look with the Nanocom told me that it would not communicate with the ECU. Ooer, maybe it's another ECU failure. I called the AA and when the man turned up he checked the same sorts of things I had. The ECU wouldn't talk to his diagnostic kit either. Hmm. He reckoned that because he could detect 12v and 5v at the airflow meter and manifold sensor the ECU must be doing something, so it was probably a fuel problem. Whilst the fuel pump runs he said it was hardly drawing any current so it may merely be spinning but not delivering fuel. Anyway, I got them to bring me home and will look at a few more things at my leisure. Firstly I've got the battery on charge. Then I'll see if I can get a fuel pressure reading. But I suspect it's primarily an ECU problem due to lack of communication and lack of a purge sequence.
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Nice of the passing public to lend a hand rather than point and laugh ...
 
Brown said:
While I was waiting for the AA a man came up in a Disco 2 and started talking to me about Land Rover matters. He said his was a 4 litre TD5. I expressed puzzlement, but he assured me this was the case. I thought I'd googled my way through pretty much everything ever posted on the internet about TD5s but haven't come across this. Can such things be?
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Maybe he was confused, a lot of people I have noticed call a D2 a TD5 , I assume as TD5's are more prevalent that they think it is the model identification not an engine designation. But these are not normally owners of D2's, it must be said.

Did he say it was a diesel?

Cheers
 
I should really have asked to look under his bonnet, but I was more concerned with my own troubles at the time. Yes, there was the 4 litre V8, but it would be quite a feat of engineering to get 4 litres out of the TD5 just by enlarging the bores and lengthening the stroke. Especially as the tolerances are quite tight and reboring isn't recommended on the standard TD5 block. I've read that the TD5 was designed originally to come in different sizes, such as a four cylinder of about two litres, and a six cylinder of about three, but he said it definitely didn't have an extra cylinder. Maybe he was just using TD5 as a generic term for Discos of that vintage. But he had a Land Rover club motif on his sweatshirt so that lent an air of authority to his pronouncements.
 
Brown said:
I should really have asked to look under his bonnet, but I was more concerned with my own troubles at the time. Yes, there was the 4 litre V8, but it would be quite a feat of engineering to get 4 litres out of the TD5 just by enlarging the bores and lengthening the stroke. Especially as the tolerances are quite tight and reboring isn't recommended on the standard TD5 block. I've read that the TD5 was designed originally to come in different sizes, such as a four cylinder of about two litres, and a six cylinder of about three, but he said it definitely didn't have an extra cylinder. Maybe he was just using TD5 as a generic term for Discos of that vintage. But he had a Land Rover club motif on his sweatshirt so that lent an air of authority to his pronouncements.
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Maybe a case of 'all the gear' ?
 
I tend to think that people with Land Rover club sweatshirts must be really knowledgeable insiders and know stuff the rest of us don't, and maybe even have access to species of Land Rover hitherto unknown to science. Maybe I should get a club sweatshirt too and then I won't get stranded in Lidl car parks, and I'll have four litres of raw power under the TD5 plastic engine cover.
 
Brown said:
I tend to think that people with Land Rover club sweatshirts must be really knowledgeable insiders and know stuff the rest of us don't, and maybe even have access to species of Land Rover hitherto unknown to science. Maybe I should get a club sweatshirt too and then I won't get stranded in Lidl car parks, and I'll have four litres of raw power under the TD5 plastic engine cover.
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Psstt ...wanna by a Landie shirt ?
 
Dippypud said:
What was the cause on yours then ?
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CV joint went so checked swivel pre-load, Panhard rod bushes had gone through MOT but detected play and changed to superpro bushes and that cured it. Still need to change drop arm and drag link ball joints and maybe tighten up steering box but up to 70mph ok
 
well today I've taken chunks out my fingers and swore a lot but successfully fits new fog light to the bumper, and started stripping for a respray and also looked at removing the wing mirror but with no idea how to do it so failed there
 
Jake ingleby said:
well today I've taken chunks out my fingers and swore a lot but successfully fits new fog light to the bumper, and started stripping for a respray and also looked at removing the wing mirror but with no idea how to do it so failed there
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Wing mirror or door mirror ?
 
Jake ingleby said:
or do I mean door mirror
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Door mirror - open door, prise off inner plastic cover

Un plug electrics, support mirror, undo the three retaining screws and remove retaining plate

Mirror will now come off

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