seanlandy
Active Member
Well in our infinite wisdom my partner and I decided to buy s Disco TD5 to have for holidays and weekends etc. We found a good 03 example, which up until the previous owner had full landy service history. Not much done recently to it. However, it is all well spec'd and very straight. Ok, it needs new discs, the drivers door lock sorting and a few other bits...but hey its a 12 year old Landy.
The oil leaks is a nuisance. I'm hoping after a jet wash it is more obvious where it's coming from. Seems to be dropping down from above the power steering pump. Not this though as the reservoir is full and the steering box looks very new. Are there little banjo fitting with oil lines I can see? The rocker cover gasket, or breather doesn't look very clever, though.
And then the diesel drip. Back of the engine, dripping of the gearbox mount. Regulator or hose fittings? Do I see you can get repair parts for these on Ebay with new o rings for the part that fails?
Lastly the water dripping from the expansion bottle once warm.....not head I hope. Once the bottle is filled up and up to pressure if just drip out until it finds its own level, below the feed. Could this be a crack or new cap required? All the other fluid levels seem constant so I wouldn't suspect the head gasket.
So as you can see, there are things to do but hopefully once sorted it should do us proud.
Any suggestions to qualify my own thoughts would be helpful before my partner decides the run me over with it?
The oil leaks is a nuisance. I'm hoping after a jet wash it is more obvious where it's coming from. Seems to be dropping down from above the power steering pump. Not this though as the reservoir is full and the steering box looks very new. Are there little banjo fitting with oil lines I can see? The rocker cover gasket, or breather doesn't look very clever, though.
And then the diesel drip. Back of the engine, dripping of the gearbox mount. Regulator or hose fittings? Do I see you can get repair parts for these on Ebay with new o rings for the part that fails?
Lastly the water dripping from the expansion bottle once warm.....not head I hope. Once the bottle is filled up and up to pressure if just drip out until it finds its own level, below the feed. Could this be a crack or new cap required? All the other fluid levels seem constant so I wouldn't suspect the head gasket.
So as you can see, there are things to do but hopefully once sorted it should do us proud.
Any suggestions to qualify my own thoughts would be helpful before my partner decides the run me over with it?
