NO never and not a good idea realy you could go space frame but even them are usally crome molly ( steel) like the Bowler widcat and North OffRoad stuff or even a lotus 7 a good ladder, if you have one can be hot dip gavanised, adds about 30 - 50 Kg, depending on how good the operatour...

WHAT a Lot of Crap i cant beleve how many rubbish and crapy post there are from peaple who doint know **** dicoverys are all the same, auto manual etc, with the exception of a 2002?? ( i think thats the year) TD5 where some stuped pommy barstard of an eegineer decicided to replace the...

no smoke?? all that fule has to be going some where, oil level staying the same ??

sort of get under on the left had side, ill have a look in the morning its 10pm here and - 15 at the moment, and for the life of me i just cant picture the linkages, changing the oil will not do any thing, you can be quite hard on it, im 6'3" and 120kg, and i doint think i could...

uumm well i was charged with that once, usally armed sort of have to be

Out of interest what trips have you done?? Just some of what I have done, is, London Vladivostok, Vladivostok Moscow, Vladivostok Beijing. BBK to paski (hit a land mine on that trip= short trip) paski thought Det Udom/ Ubon ratchatani to Valentine. London to Bagdad ( 1980s) Pakistan...

tdi 300 no electrics, you can fix every thing yourself, boosted and pump tweeked, all problems are knowen and eliminated, and thay are still making them, so new motor parts are no problem. i have a 95 with 356 000 Klm thats 222 500 miles for the poms, the wife has a 2007...

ok skip the cleaning bit for now, its not part of your problem, when you take it for a drive around the block ( no more) you will have no power, the question is is it less power than before or the same? NB GUNK is a fule, if you suck that in she will reve her head of and theres...

yeppa thats the one, early ones had a water drain auto, latter deleted and replaced in some countries. AH you know what thay say about asuptions aye intercooler to inlet manifold its also a good time to spary some cleaner down there, clean out the intercooler, and let the turbo...

yepp keep at it, nice and slow, if theres any noise like gears wanting to mesh, stop, put the auto in nutral and try again, thay usally go in with a nice clunk, but haveing said that my 51KG wife cant shift it so there is a bit of efort required

mate im not in pommy land, but with kit, and nothing is broken say 4 - 6 hours work with a mate

AHH the first thing you have said that makes sence, keep up the good work

try on flat ground idle, in drive, slowly roling forward. in low range with a bit of efort push the lever to the left no go try again in reverce if there is no clunk oir grinding of gears, or movent of lever uumm = $$$$

put in nutral, push forward AND LEFT for diflock

OK forget about the auto the little Gear lever think of it like this low lock...........................low no lock .....................neutural High lock..........................high no lock like an H patern Gate gear shift or as i tryed to exsplane before...

with a bit of gas on, the frount spinning wheel would stop (break bias) and the back would keep on spinning = no dif lock

then why are you giving advice based on an old dog non ecu ??? of cource your mods have made a difrence, but changing an ecu is cheeper and more efective, but then you wouldint know that, since you doint have one aye, no problems when you grow up and get promoted from McDs fat fryer...

ok so 2 wheels spinning oposite cnrs, sounds like you were in diflock, possably the next trick would have been could you stop one of these wheels from spinning no = diflock

pull your head in boy had a few to bits, driven more its a tdi 200 do its a bit long in the tooth, good chance the bulb has blowen it is a pommy wagon any way. and yes there is no gate, but then this poster doint know that, if he pushes the lever forward left and forwrd again...

Just to be clear the leaver goes to the left and then forward to engage diflock ( low range diflock) or to the left and back (high range diflock) as for a light on the dash? maybe probably not your disco has 3 difs one on the back another on the front, and lastly one bolted on the back...