Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Ha ha - I love the item description. Watch for him listing a V8 disco in coming weeks - I don't think he'll find the v8 tows his boat much better! And yes, the diesels have always commanded a much higher price than the V8s - they use about 40% less fuel, which I suspect has a lot to do with it ...

I have the timing set at 5 degrees ATDC as the plate states in the engine bay, well at least i think its at 5 degrees. Leaving the oil pump aside - ATDC? That would suggest AFTER top dead centre to me, which is wrong - should be BEFORE top dead centre (I run at least 8 degrees advance too, but 5 ...

Did you take the leads off the dizzy cap? Firing order could be out....

86MUD wrote:For all we know, all you could have picked up is syphilis from the neighbours cat...WE NEED PICTURES!

Of what, the neighbours cat? Before, after or during? You people are strange....

I am gutted. That scratches late '01 to to '03 from my plans. Gunna need another plan. Or another Disco2 LT230. Doesn't have to be out of a Disco 2, it is possible to swap just the centre diff unit from an disco 1 unit into a Disco 2. Did this very conversion on my old mans D2, basically just ...

The late 01 until the MY03 facelift were the ones missing the CDL mechanism. The 99 though early 01 all had CDL, but no lever to activate it - this is an easy retrofit. All Disco2's are constant 4x4 via a open centre diff in the LT230 transfer case. The 02's should be rectangular headlights. The ...

Are there any issues post welding like having to straightening or normalising once the diff housing is laminated? I imagine most of the external bracing is biased to one side. Short answer yes, long answer - shouldn't be any big issues if the guy doing the welding knows how to approach it ...

One day you silly rover fools will see the light. I no longer have any oil stains on my driveway and can safetly run 31s with 6 inches of lift!!! ya got that deadly steerin shimmy/wobbles? that nissans have?? unfortunately yes :cry: i also have no ride comfort, and a severe lack of front flex :cry ...

It is not hard. If using compressed air, don't go above 20 psi. Cool! So compressed air will work fine then for the actuators? I have often thought about it over the past ten years on and off, and never have given it a go. Have been wanting to do it for ages. Ive never liked the idea of vacuum ...

they coming by factory with it. No way around that's a rather bleek view. a mate fixed his 93 defender with new rear drive flanges and axles. Something else to look for is a worn ball joint in the rear aframe link. Rangies have a single piece drive flange/axle assembly though, instead of the ...

no i have just bought a new set of gt radial all terrains im starting to think thay are the problem, we did a trip off rd in the wet nothing even remotely hard and the slightest bit of mud would almost stop me dead with wheel spin even on flat ground :x i would loose all sterring control and ...

My guess is your rear diff has blown up in some way thats caused the two wheels to lock together, making it act like a welded diff. Don't have a rear locker (ARB/Maxi/McNamara) fitted that has perhaps failed to disengage, do you? The fact that you get understeer first and then oversteer is what ...

From my research so far, i have come up with the conclusion that I'm going to use 75w85 in the LT77 as it will be doing some light duty towing with my trailer and SJ413 on the back, ATF in the T.Case and 80w90 for the Diff's, Does that sound right?? The only one I might be inclined to disagree on ...

hi all, the brother and i are fitting his 3.9 litre into an early range rover and need to buy an in line fuel pump, does anyone know the pressure we need or even a good pump thats proven itself. regards, simon You want a Bosch 070 fuel pump (full part number 0 580 464 070) - generic replacement for ...

The hard part is getting hold of the seats. Ideally you'd want to get hold of the 7 seater rear side trims (the ones where your cargo buckets currently are) along with the seats and all their paraphernalia, unless you can find someone local to you who has a template made up to cut the required holes ...

Good stuff, perhaps a bit exxy but perhaps not. When you've got a motor that needs the distributor to drive the oil pump, what's the usual go? It seems a bit crap to put all the EDIS/Megajolt gear in and still have a dizzy sticking out. Would it be a big job to cut it down to make a sort of flat ...

There is a T700 with a rangie 4 speed transfer case on it on Ebay at the moment.... Not quite an LT230, but someone might be interested... item number 140377114179

Cheers Grimace, I will try MR and Micka too. BOR returned me their quote on a 2nd hand - luckily I was sitting down at the time ;) Grimace I think you need to change your business name - I got very confused for a second here, trying to work out if I missed the release of the bamboo reduction gear ...

Sh!te.... looks like you might have been better off building a buggy! Not much rangie will be left at the end, going by the missing bits of body... And chances of getting it mod plated sound slim? Getting me inspired though, looks like a fun project.... Maybe I should get off my ass and start ...

It CAN be done.... But most people who attempt to do it at home end up going for a reco box changeover. Problem is that half the bits inside are probably flogged out...... Was actually looking this up yesterday, as I've got movement in a part of my reco steering box that I'm sure shouldn't really ...

i was talking the highway pattern on an 18 inch rim. a friend of mine from a tyre shop said they used to stock them but found the road noise was shocking and got a few complaints and when they asked coopers they said it was the cars fault. however my mum inlaw runs STT 33s and they seem fine. so i ...

was told generals and coopers where noisy and didnt last long. Not my experience with coopers.... My old man runs Cooper ATRs (or whatever they call them now) on his D2 (on 16 inch rims), and gets around 60,000km out of them. Considering he does 200km a week of 100km/h (+ :P) sharp crushed rock ...

What are the bushes to go with this concept? I forsee some sort of giant marshmallows (castor correcting of course)?

Could be one of the two wires inside the dizzy, which go to the pickup itself. (usually under the plastic cover below the rotor button). These have a habit of breaking inside the insulation due to the advance plate in the distributor moving them back and forward all the time. Causes intermittent no ...

The injectors was the standard Lucas black/green 1-hole ones. I've changed them to Bosch 4-hole types but it made no difference. (Said to be a few % more efficient) Atleast i know they aren't flooding the engine by leaking. I'm going to se what the reading is at the AFM and then try to adjust it as ...

From memory standard Rover efi systems seem not to run much different with no exhaust past the manifolds, probably due to running off the AFM. I don't think lack of backpressure is the problem in this case. On my alfa V6, removing the exhaust past the 2 downpipes makes it run extremely lean, and ...

V8 Rangie wrote:Ive got a whole Eaton M90 setup for a 4.6.. never got to fitting it.

1k if anyone is keen

Gold Coast

Whats included in 'setup'? Does it have pipes/intercooler/modifed plenum etc, and if so are they all designed to fit an HSE, or what?

yep. Use a fan spanner. Which is a spanner 32 or 36mm depending on which fan you have, that you hit the end of with a hammer. You don't hit it sideways though, you hit the end of the spanner in such a way that the force is transmitted straight down through the spanner into the fan, but slightly ...

Yes and yes. Biggest thing you should have to deal with is which ancillaries to swap (alt, p/s, a/c etc). From memory 93 disco has the multiple V belts on it still, so in theory you should be able to drop it in complete and all your powersteering hose etc would fit onto the disco pump. Probably ...

As you said yourself, leave your front steering arm alone, and carry a piece of waterpipe in the back to straighten it back out so you can go home. The impact through steering boxes is supposed to bugger them over time... With maxi axles and lockers and strengthened CVs, I'd take a guess that the ...