e4sanosh
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After a lovely hot day at the Billing show in my Disco 300tdi auto, I decided to go round the off road course. The disco was great off road, as was my previous 200tdi, so when it came to the mud run I thought 'why not? I went through there fine in my 200...'
Yep, got stuck. Muddy water was glooping its way into the car, my feet were starting to float, I was quickly reaching for the window switches to stop the mud flowing through the windows. Mild panic...
I continued around the off road course but noticed that my oil pressure light was flickering whenever I lifted off the accelerator. Stopped, checked the oil, coolant, etc but everything was as normal. I started my journey back to south London and managed to get about 2 miles before the disco was petering out going up a slight hill, and would not rev above 2,000 rpm. Rather than waiting for something to go BANG on the M1, I pulled over and called the AA. I got recovered back home (achieving excellent mpg on the back of a lorry...) and my neighbour's garage took the car in the next day.
The cause of the problem was a f*d turbo, which i kind of suspected. However, on deeper investigations my neighbour found that water had managed to get into the engine causing bits of big end to be fired in all directions and con rods bending etc.
Considering the good condition of the rest of the disco, (with it having minimal rust and a solid boot floor!) I decided to get the engine reconditioned. I sent mine off to a guy in Wales who reconditions engine, and the price was a lot more reasonable than the £2100 my garage quoted.
So after refitting it, sorting out a blowing exhaust and a propshaft gaiter, today the disco was finally ready to be picked up (five weeks after billing...). The garage mentioned that they found lots of water in the rear axle, so had emptied it and filled it with fresh oil.
I picked up the disco this evening, and although the engine sounds lovely and looks fantastic, the rear diff is making so much noise! It's especially noisy when I lift off the accelerator. I've taken it for a little drive tonight but couldn't bear the noise. I'm taking it back to the garage tomorrow for them to give it another axle oil change, the theory being that when it is emptied more of the crap in the axle n diff will be taken out. Supposed to be driving up to North Yorkshire on sunday...700 mile round trip...
Wish me luck!
Yep, got stuck. Muddy water was glooping its way into the car, my feet were starting to float, I was quickly reaching for the window switches to stop the mud flowing through the windows. Mild panic...
I continued around the off road course but noticed that my oil pressure light was flickering whenever I lifted off the accelerator. Stopped, checked the oil, coolant, etc but everything was as normal. I started my journey back to south London and managed to get about 2 miles before the disco was petering out going up a slight hill, and would not rev above 2,000 rpm. Rather than waiting for something to go BANG on the M1, I pulled over and called the AA. I got recovered back home (achieving excellent mpg on the back of a lorry...) and my neighbour's garage took the car in the next day.
The cause of the problem was a f*d turbo, which i kind of suspected. However, on deeper investigations my neighbour found that water had managed to get into the engine causing bits of big end to be fired in all directions and con rods bending etc.
Considering the good condition of the rest of the disco, (with it having minimal rust and a solid boot floor!) I decided to get the engine reconditioned. I sent mine off to a guy in Wales who reconditions engine, and the price was a lot more reasonable than the £2100 my garage quoted.
So after refitting it, sorting out a blowing exhaust and a propshaft gaiter, today the disco was finally ready to be picked up (five weeks after billing...). The garage mentioned that they found lots of water in the rear axle, so had emptied it and filled it with fresh oil.
I picked up the disco this evening, and although the engine sounds lovely and looks fantastic, the rear diff is making so much noise! It's especially noisy when I lift off the accelerator. I've taken it for a little drive tonight but couldn't bear the noise. I'm taking it back to the garage tomorrow for them to give it another axle oil change, the theory being that when it is emptied more of the crap in the axle n diff will be taken out. Supposed to be driving up to North Yorkshire on sunday...700 mile round trip...
Wish me luck!
