1. frostythor

    Disco 4 (LR4) Steering alignment

    If you simply set your steering wheel to the centred position, check you steering wheel is now centred, then check any toe out/in with a string line attach a line at the rear of the car I use my tow ball, run the line around one of the real tyres to the front wheel so that it crosses the centre...
  2. frostythor

    D2 gearbox issues

    Stanley why dont you pop round a do it for him.....
  3. frostythor

    Disco 3 youtube video

    I have watched afew of this set of youtube videos of the engine rebuild for a Disco 3, vey well done, there are a full set worth a watch, I have posted a link to the first video below
  4. frostythor

    Disco 2 Gearshift

    have you check the oil levels recently, in the gear box and TB, always the best start point
  5. frostythor

    Disco 4 (LR4) Will the Discovery 4 achieve classic status?

    Well it looks like my 1999 D2 is a classic, as its 22 years old, soon to be 23, and my Morris Minor 1000, at 1967 is a Tax/Mot exempt, but still needs a lot of work, and half a floor, on the passenger side, front to rear, but as everything is still available either new or used it making steady...
  6. frostythor

    For sale discovery 3

    it should be free to a good home....
  7. frostythor

    Disco 2 Steering lock stop bolt?

    Ansley a common sense approach to solving the problem,, and if needed you could alway add a washer or 2
  8. frostythor

    Disco 2 Steering lock stop bolt?

    I find this article very bizarre, I cant see why it had so much posts and why the originator Roger Stenning even thought Land rover would go out of the way use a secret thread for a vey mundane job, they are a mix of UNF and METRIC so why would the go to the expense of tapping and installing a...
  9. frostythor

    best discovery

    No matter what Discovery you have, by the time you have fixed it you may be out of cash, people do spend a lot " upgrading" but for the next buyer it’s a mod they may not want, as most cars a already made to be reasonably at optimum performance for a whole range of differing job, when you...
  10. frostythor

    Disco 2 Interior lights staying on

    take the bulb out, and if it is water /damp let the car dry out
  11. frostythor

    Decent Disco breakers for trim and rear light

    Hi Stan, you need some one with a 3D plastic printer to make you new parts, the printers ar coming down in price all the time now
  12. frostythor

    Disco 2 Rear bumper light - metal spring clip

    Yes I had the same problem and was unable to find areplacemant with out buying a completed light unit, in the end I took the other side out and cut a new one outusing an tin lid, a bit of trail and erroe but the light still in after a year or so, I found the trick to stop it coming out was to...
  13. frostythor

    Disco 1 Off to the graveyard....

    That’s not a major shunt, it not near the chassis, it is very superficial, Yes I’m with Stanley I would be looking to have ago at the insurance company it absurd to write it off for a bit of panel damage and no major structural damage, thay are definatly taking the P1ss.........
  14. frostythor

    Disco 1 Off to the graveyard....

    I agree with Stanley, I have also bought back write off and repaired them fo less than the money I got from the insurance, ther are lots of barn finds out there http://ow.ly/r2b650KC9uZ if this is a classic it doesnt even need an MOT,
  15. frostythor

    Disco 2 Tyers, who uses what what for?

    If you going Alpine you may need chain as well as a lot of the Alpine roads in winter are 'with chains only' roads, when i lived in Kiel in North Germany we had summer tyres and winter tyre on a set of wheels ready to go , generally M&S, but a lot of other had spike tyres, I not sure but they...
  16. frostythor

    Best place to buy a 2nd hand/ reconditioned td5 engine

    You may be better just buying a doner car you get the engine plus alot more bit that can be very handy, or sell on and get the money back, just look for a failed MOT with a bad chassis, and hope its resonable milage
  17. frostythor

    Bearmach Has Gone

    Checking out the competition of course what else!!!
  18. frostythor

    Bearmach Has Gone

    Just read it on another forum, that 'Bearmach' has gone, no web page
  19. frostythor

    Cooling System

    I always used Saunders Motor works Ltd, in Cadnam, on the A336, their website is https://www.saunders-motorworks.co.uk/ I had a fair amount of machining done by them in the past, from heads to full engine regrinds and rebores they didn’t reassemble them, but supplies all the new bit you needed
  20. frostythor

    Cooling System

    Hi at one time you could get thicker head gaskets that allowed you to have a head skimmed with the thicker gasket making the head up back to it's correct, position, you need to check out suppliers to see if they have a stock of differing thickness head gasket, I can remember we used to do a...