I wouldn't personally fit poly bushes to any of mine although I don't think they matter so much on for ARBs and the like. I understand why people do due to the tapered nature of the OE radius arm bushes. I've had one of mine on new OE shocks and dunlop bags and it's not great body roll wise it's...

It's always been fashionable to slate Britpart on forums but I think their cellular dynamics shocks are pretty good and you'd struggle with an argument for spending more I found them vastly superior to old man emu on a Disco. The problem on the P38 with shocks is it's a trade off between ride...

I have Gen 3s on one of mine with Koni shocks which is considered one of the best setups and it's, like all these upgrades, very hard to say. I can tell you the aluminium bases look good when you look underneath. Could really do with one as it came off the production line originally with...

Special torture should be reserved for L322 headlights bodged on to a P38. The Sport front wing side grilles also added to a P38 never look right - I think Simmonites were quite fond of doing this to either their used P38s or Disco 2s.

What common owner 'improvements' you see that really set your teeth on edge. One I see a lot I think looks particularly awful is body colour painting the rear pillar, mostly sports but other models too.

Funny how with Overfinch and various other makes of vehicles special editions that when new are seen at the sort of slightly chavvy bling end of the spectrum eventually become the most sought after among upmarket collectors who wouldn't have dreamt of owning one originally. Although has to be...

In a bid to find a cure for the perennial problem of nasty old looking hard to remove heat shields has anyone had the manifolds ceramic coated and on the engine long term without issue? Any other satisfactory solutions other than modifying the fasteners on the originals to something more...

Push it into Wiltshire that county has more favourable starting conditions.

Quickish way to look into liners is to whip the sump off and look for coolant deposits round the bottom of cylinders. Don't get this symptom in all cases 100% but a lot of times you do.

Liner

P38 one has bigger calipers same as the armoured model. The extra stopping power is nice but seem to think pads were very hard to get hold of last time I changed some and bet that was five years ago.

It's the secondary air. If it's very noisy then might have a pipe split or the vacuum pump just not connected. Get RAVE manual for the V8. Haynes TD5 can still be useful for quick reference of torque values etc. It can produce a whole orchestra of funny noises that aren't necessarily what they...

With leggy miles L322s I always think you might as well buy a spares or repair with a knackered gearbox that someone else has run out of money on. Like P38s the supposedly 'together' examples that command a premium all tend to get some of the usual issues six months down the line in any case.

Try disconnecting one or more wheel sensors so the ABS throws a fault and should then be inactive.

Depends how much you buy into the axle only tolerating a finite number of balljoint changes I suppose really.

Hammer bit in an air chisel on the steering knuckle will usually pop out balljoints add freeze release spray for anything particularly stubborn

If the cosmetics of the copper isn't to your liking just shrink some heatshrink tubing on it.

The Disco 2 did have an easier design to remove and have wondered if it was after they discover the P38 design was such a PITA.

You need the 1/2” really. I got mine for about £40 delivered some years ago but the exchange rate was much better then. Don’t use it often but when you do it usually makes a seemingly impossible job possible or saves hours of stripping down work. (For disclosure I have significantly more than...

If you want to avoid faffing about with some daft socket extension creation, one of these turns it into a five second job getting the top bolts out of the bell housing.