You people are geniuses. Right, will check the CV joints ASAP. Will also jack up rear end and seek out thumping noise. Will also investigate ACE, and see if the sneeze is the same thing as the stick thing. I left her idling today and could still hear the growl a bit, but it did not increase when...

P.S. I've also noticed that I get a noise from the front drivers side wheel at regular intervals, that sounds like I've run over a very dry stick. At first I thought I had, but then it happened again, then again, and i realised that sticks weren't that common on the M606. It happens every few...

Thanks for that guys. Musky, I hadn't considered the anti-roll bar, so will check. It is a quiet, rhythmic thudding, the beat gets faster in tempo as I accelerate. I will also do a dry steering test to see if I get the growling. My steering wheel was shaking on the motorway today, and growling...

Thanks for that meego. I was sat on the tailgate with rear door open yesterday and it was dropping noticeably. It did re-level after starting the engine, and it doesn't drop overnight, so I'm not overly concerned yet. I'm more concerned about the faint rhythmic knocking, which I worked out today...

Quick question about loom replacement. I did mine on Saturday, and when I got the rocker cver off there was oil everywhere, on every surface, including the inside of the cover. Is that normal? It doesn't look owt like the pictures here: www.discovery2.co.uk / Workshop /Injector Harness

Thanks for this headtester, that's a great thread. I'm not 100% certain that it is the Watts linkage, but as I said there is a lot of corrosion. If it is, I may end up replacing the whole assembly, arms and all.

The saga continues. On Saturday I went to Simmonites and bought a new injector harness. When I took the rocker cover off there was a huge amount of black oil everywhere, and it had splashed all over the inside of the cover. It looked nothing like the photos here: www.discovery2.co.uk / Workshop...

Right, just checked the red plug in the back of the ECU. There was a small amount of oil in there, which I cleaned out with kitchen towel. Tomorrow I'll order a new loom, new rocker cover gasket and some break cleaner and see how I go. Many thanks all. However I'm assuming this does not answer...

Just found a brilliant tutorial at defender2.co.uk on changing the injector harness and checking the ECU, so I will be tinkering tomorrow. I did find someone somewhere who said they had fixed theirs with vasiline. Does anyone know how this is done? Cambridgecockney: I checked the to hose and it...

Oil in the injectors had gone through my head before, but short of taking the rocker cover off, I had no idea how to check. I will be checking the ECU (whatever that is) asap. Difflock, yes the growling is happening on the move in the turns. I checked the power steering fluid, and it's plenty...

Thanks guys, that's given me plenty to go at. I will have to go away and read up on where the things you mentioned actually are on the car, and will get back to you asap. Josh

Hi all, I recently bought a 2001 Disco td5, manual. I love it, but I took it to an independent landy mechanic recently and he was unable to diagnose the reason for my very noisy, vibrating engine. He did a sniff test and checked the oil and couldn't find anything wrong. I have no idea about...

Thanks for this. How would i go about moving the post?

Hi all, I recently bought a 2001 Disco td5, manual. I love it, but I took it to an independent landy mechanic recently and he was unable to diagnose the reason for my very noisy, vibrating engine. He did a sniff test and checked the oil and couldn't find anything wrong. I have no idea about...

Hello, Maybe I should have joined a group like this before I took the plunge, but anyway. I have bought a 2001 Discovery II TD5 XS (Dakar model). I already love it. But I had a good scout underneath it today and there is quite a lot of rust, and some bits are loose, and there seems to be a...