rangerovers.pub
The only place for a coil spring is up Zebedee's arse
StrangeRover's Avatar
Member
offline
1062 posts

I use this thread to introduce the other Money pit in my life ;)

My beloved MY1999 Land Rover discovery II TD5..

Bought in December 2018 as an early Christmas present to myself she was/is truly mint!!

Built in 1999 painted in Blenheim silver metallic with the offroad pack..

enter image description here
enter image description here
enter image description here
enter image description here
![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/ys5w0f9l.jpg "enter image title here")

Bought with 177k and now on 185k it is a great thing to drive, and everything works...

I even bought it from a dealer a hundred yards away from her supplying dealer in Droitwich..
It was a great car to drive to and from Droitwich "where i was working" at the time 60mi there and back.

In the few months i had her an Alive stage II map and Turbo were fitted along with a few other things stock these things usually put out 136hp and 310nm with the map it takes it up to 170'ish HP and 390nm and she does go very well...

With her on the road i struggled to justify putting the P38 on the road..

However when leaving my workplaces carpark i decided to giver her some hoof and the flexplate shattered!!

so..

P38 back on the road and the TD5 lies in wait...

Anyway Lockdown blabbering on!!

I'm board! lol

I'm gonna drop the autobox off next week "hopefully"

Anyone else LOL

Just wondering..

Have been dragging a Unimog around with mine, close to 10t IIRC...

Low range 1st - The Morse chain in the T/box is loving life....

These cars do have muscle...

Any road going loads?

How do they tow at speed near the limit?

I've had the old bus on the road for a few months now, and driven her when i can..

I could leave her for over 2 weeks unaffected..

However i didn't have the interior lights connected...

Yesterday i connected the lights, and the day after the battery was down to 9v, even though they didn't stay on...

I've recharged the battery and all is well, it is important to know, she had sat a week, before i added the lights...

I noted the Map reading lights in the main front light didn't work, could the car still pass a currant through even if the bulb was kapput, the oddity is BOTH map reading bulbs are knackered. which seems unlikely to be coincidental?

H

Hiya gents..

When fiddling around with the rear of the car i noticed the rear bumper mount, the outrigger from the chassis has snapped in half..

corrosion would be my main culprit, but in fiddling with it, the rust is only surface.

could they break in the event of a slight shunt up the rear?

enter image description here
enter image description here

the bumper is also slightly out of alignment, i guess a fabricated bracket would be the way forward?

Oh and there is this...

enter image description here

any idea as to why that would be there?

a dent repair, maybe?

Cheers H

Ever been so annoyed at something, that you want to burn it?

Well in my case the P38 has been pissing water in for a while, i'd sealed the filters up, and like a fool believed that it couldn't be leaking from there again!!

The easiest person to fool is yourself etc etc..

Anyway..

In an effort to find out the specific area as to where the water was getting in, i got various jugs filled with water and a colourant!!

The colour is key, working from the bottom up "for obvious reasons" you use a different colour for each section, if the water that leaks into the footwell is a specific colour you know "roughly" which area is leaking..

The problem with drenching the car with a hose is it soaks all areas in water and it is hard to pinpoint which area is leaking, using the hose method we narrowed it down betweem the sunroof and scuttle, not very accurate!!

This is the state of the inside after drenching it with a hose..

enter image description here
enter image description here

Not great as you can see, this is after drenching the whole car, at this point water could be getting in anywhere!!

To narrow down the leak i mixed water with MER car polish which is a horrible cloudy stuff, and it worked well, i drenched the pollen filter covers first..

enter image description here

After taking a seconds i opened the door to be greeted with this!!

enter image description here
enter image description here

clearly the MER is eeking its way past somewhere..

It is also worth noting i put the hose inside the scuttle and nothing leaked..

Upon opening the "sealed" pollen filter covers i was greeted with this...

enter image description here

A lesson to be learnt from this is..

clean the covers off before resealing!!

enter image description here
enter image description here
enter image description here

Now i appreciate some old hands will laugh and tell me to fook 'orf..

but i thought i'd share!!

cheers,

Ever get that feeling?

Fitted a new EAS compressor and had to breach lockdown to get some essential supplies, my Asthma inhaler among them..

Anyway half way there it is pissing down, doing 50mph down the A49 the right hand wiper comes off its spindle and tangles up with the left one!!
Ah fook..

So luckily i had the forethought of always RainX coating my glass and the water is beading right off, but it is still a ballache..

Anyway, I manage 5mi later to pull into a carpark and fix the issue with some tools i have in the back, all the while rain is pouring out the sky at a rate of knots

enter image description here

After fiddling around with it for 5 mins i had it set and i continued onwards..

Only to find once the wipers were fixed the sun came out and the rain stopped!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

At the shop i then noticed i had a very soft tyre, luckily i have green slime on me and a pump, so that was also tended too..

These P38's...

Ahhhhh!!!

Oh and it doesn't really fit in carpark spaces!!

I've bought myself a cable for the EAS, i've got the compressor fitted, but i need to reset the fault and set the heights..

My P38 has always looked pissed at any height..

An example..

NS rear on high mode.

enter image description here

OS rear in high.

enter image description here

OS front on high..

enter image description here

NS Front on high..

enter image description here

she likes to lean to the left it seems..

There are calibration blocks to make, i've read, any tips on the lengths and the material to make them from?

I have a mitre saw and all the gear...

"I Hope"

Yes gents it's happened...

Driving to the shops, came back out she was sat level...

Drove home and just 2 miles from home i get "EAS FAULT" and she drops on her arse!

all 4 wheels in the arches...

I've taken the compressor out and run a feed to it manually and the outflow of air i can block very easily with my finger..

So thinking the Piston ring is at fault i took the "cylinder head" off and the barrel came off and the O ring is ruined, and the piston ring is concrete hard + it is got loads of play between the piston seal and barrel.

Pictures..

enter image description here
enter image description here
enter image description here

Next up gents is the cable.

there are a fair few on ebay. what do ya use?

Cheers gents as always

I've had a water leak with this piece of magnificence since i bought her, however i've sealed and prodded every know orifice that can leak, and now i'm stuck with the old water from her past leak..

I've tried folding the carpet up and squeezing it out, but it seems very dense, and even after minutes of squishing it still is full of water..

I'm tempted to cut the foam out, but it's already disintegrating and cutting it will only end up with a pile of unusable shit..

Would propping the carpet up and using a heatgun on low allow the foam to dry out do ya'll think?

H

Just a question chaps..

I hear Boge are the ones to go for, however I could only find the fronts, the rear seemed to be MIA so i went for Terrafirma thinking their "pro sport" series of shockers should firm up the ride and make it less of a bouncy castle..

It is spongy but not in a comfortable way..

Any words of wisdom!

Feel free to give a bollocking LOL

Already got the tin hat on!!!!

H

was thinking earlier when fitting my new V8 badge..

Has anyone ever had the P38 up to it's listed Top speed?

My book says the 4.6 thor has a " top speed " of 125mph..

I wonder..

By this i mean mistake!!

In my case it was Jan 2018 when i put the bonnet up slightly to charge the battery on a dry cold winters night..

But as it happens overnight, this happened...

enter image description here

Whoops..

Just ordered some Castrol Edge FST 10w60 for the P38..

Anyone else used it?

H

EAS is in pucker order..

However the ride is akin if not worse than my old D2 which has saggy old coils..

Would this be in part to the fact the shockers are original, would it be worth throwing a set of Boge or Bilsteins on it?

Cheers

Evening Gents..

An unusual issue that has plagued my P38 since i bought it is an iffy cold start.

If you fire her up the revs will bounce between what seems like 250 and 1000rpm, it'll do this a few times before settling down to a good idle. if you give her some throttle it sorts itself out faster.,

However I learnt that if you give her a TINY bit of throttle when starting it stops the hunting but will settle to a very low idle..

Once it's HOT she purrs like a V8 Kitten and sits at the correct idle speed.

I should note there are no misfires..

Cheers gents.

The old bus passed her mot a week ago..

I've just checked the emissions sheet!!

And she passed with the skin on her teeth!!

enter image description here
enter image description here

I was amazed, they plugged in an OBD reader into her, plus a thermometer down the dipstick and the thing in the exhaust!!

Poor car!!

LOL

Not bad for being sat for upto 2 years though!

H

Have you all noticed that all RR's seem to have their own aroma?

Or is it just me?

Mine seems to have an "atmosphere" around it, i can't explain the smell but it's definitely been there since i bought it..

Anyone else?

Or am i alone?

Another question gents.

When accelerating gently she changes up at around 1500rpm which is about right..

However when she gets to 35mph she seems to change from 3rd to 4th lockup seemingly missing 4th altogether and instantly locking the converter..

The annoying thing is it'll hold 4th down to 30mph which makes for jerking around if you are a bit hasty with the throttle and it's a tad annoying if you want to overtake a cyclist or whatever as it just labours.
she changes down below 30...

I find i have to go past 1/2 throttle before it changes down to what i think is 3rd..

Kickdown works..

I have changed the oil in the box..

Would it be something to to with the TQ apply circuit in the valvebody or is it more of a TCM related thing?

Cheers gents..

Mine never worked from the get go..

However with everything grinding to a halt and the apocalyse approaching i'm gonna see if i can get some life out of it.. lol

When you insert the CD nav disk it just shows "No disk"..

Would it be worth taking it apart and giving it a squirt of contact cleaner, or is it a more serious fault with the drive itself?

Cheers gents.

H