Gothicsera
Member
Ah yes, this old chestnut.
I recently bought my old Disco 2 TD5 back after a few years. I sold it to a friend's dad who has looked after it well. He recently passed away and I've bought it back.
Even before I sold it, it was always gutless above about 2800rpm and that's still the case, we just never got around to looking into it's lack of power. To be honest it doesn't seem to pull like you'd expect below that either, but it does noticeably fall flat there
It's a 2000, with 217k miles on it. It had the head gasket done and injectors refurbished about 10k miles ago due to other issues. This made no difference to the lack of power, but did solve the other issues we had.
MAF reading is 58-60 at idle and seems to work OK.
It does still have the EGR connected. It doesn't smoke under load.
My list of things to look at is quite long, any other recommendations or where to start?
MAP sensor
Intercooler hoses and intercooler clean out
EGR blank/delete
Boost control solenoid and hoses
Check wastegate is free and actuator is functional.
I do have a Hawkeye Total which came with it, so hopefully I can get some data from that, or at least see if it's making the boost it should.
It has lots of other niggles and issues that I need to sort, but I would love to get to the bottom of this lack of power issue.
I recently bought my old Disco 2 TD5 back after a few years. I sold it to a friend's dad who has looked after it well. He recently passed away and I've bought it back.
Even before I sold it, it was always gutless above about 2800rpm and that's still the case, we just never got around to looking into it's lack of power. To be honest it doesn't seem to pull like you'd expect below that either, but it does noticeably fall flat there
It's a 2000, with 217k miles on it. It had the head gasket done and injectors refurbished about 10k miles ago due to other issues. This made no difference to the lack of power, but did solve the other issues we had.
MAF reading is 58-60 at idle and seems to work OK.
It does still have the EGR connected. It doesn't smoke under load.
My list of things to look at is quite long, any other recommendations or where to start?
MAP sensor
Intercooler hoses and intercooler clean out
EGR blank/delete
Boost control solenoid and hoses
Check wastegate is free and actuator is functional.
I do have a Hawkeye Total which came with it, so hopefully I can get some data from that, or at least see if it's making the boost it should.
It has lots of other niggles and issues that I need to sort, but I would love to get to the bottom of this lack of power issue.
