Member Since: 01 Jul 2005
Location: Hollyoaks, UK
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DSL wrote:
And time for a little trailer.
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Oi, that's mine D3 HSE V8...
5th Jun 2017 2:56 pm
plocker
Member Since: 14 Mar 2016
Location: Preston
Posts: 828
Trollman wrote:
Got any pics of the T piece in question? Not sure I want to open up the water system again as it was a nightmare to bleed !!
Will be doing the throttle body once I get it home.
Here you go, when you change it you don't lose any coolant.
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5th Jun 2017 6:21 pm
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2509
A V8 is the missing piece from my disco story
With some older ones coming along for low money i might just have to tick this box. Its that gorgeous sound enjoy once you get sortedMY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
5th Jun 2017 7:08 pm
SafariDave
Member Since: 19 Nov 2011
Location: NYC & LA
Posts: 775
pagoda wrote:
SafariDave wrote:
Good Call on the V8.
Have them clean the throttle body, and do a BG induct cleaning. Check that the cowl is not warped by the Pollen air filter duct. Check for sunroof drains leaking. Replace coolant T plastic breather pipe.
Dave
Ack clean the throttle body. Can you explain what you mean by the cowl and air filter duct?
Lastly, why change the coolant breather T if the original isn't leaking?
And on all V8s I'd suggest adding a can of BG44k to the fuel tank (not sure if that would affect LPG though).
D3 2005 V8 SE Bonatti Grey "The Rhino" (our NYC D3)
De-tangoed Headlights, D4 2016 Style Black Pack Grille, D4 19" Wheels/ Bridgestone Alenza
D3 2005 V8 SE Bonatti Grey, D4 2016 Style Black Pack Grille (our LA D3)
D2 1999 V8 SD7 Chawton White (our Caribbean Beach truck)
5th Jun 2017 9:08 pm
Mogwyth
Member Since: 03 Oct 2014
Location: Pwllheli
Posts: 3976
mark the spark wrote:
A V8 is the missing piece from my disco story
Me I have never had a diesel one, had a 3.5, 4.0 and a 4.6 before the current one.==================================
05 D3 HSE V8 4.4
04 MG TF 135
03 MG TF 115 Cool Blue Edition
02 MG TF 160
00 Hymer B564 Lionheart
1971 Series III 109
5th Jun 2017 9:26 pm
Charliecloud
Member Since: 31 Jul 2014
Location: Tonbridge
Posts: 980
plocker wrote:
Trollman wrote:
Got any pics of the T piece in question? Not sure I want to open up the water system again as it was a nightmare to bleed !!
Will be doing the throttle body once I get it home.
Here you go, when you change it you don't lose any coolant.
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As a preventative measure I guess, where did you get it?
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Drove to Bournemouth yesterday with the intent on getting the D3 front suspension back up and running. Arrived, took wheel off and sure enough I could hear air escaping by the front nearside airbag. Took the wheelarch liner off, (which took the longest time as a few screws were rounded), and sure enough the repair pipe that the LR garage had put in had too much slack on it and had melted on the exhaust heat shield.
Just managed to get a repair section in there and re-route it better. Tested and all good.
Today we drove it back home and it drove like a dream, my wife behind in my D2.
A few jobs to do in prep for its MOT;
sort out number 8 as its misfiring on petrol but ok on LPG with engine light on.
Fuse gone for window washers
yellow warning light on for parking brake.
And what ever else the MOT man finds ....
But at least its home now.
<M>*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
Fixed windscreen washers - fuse gone and they jets were blocked and drivers one had hose hanging off !
Secured battery in place.
Machine polished bonnet as its very scratched, needs a respray but its a bit better.
Got sunroof working thanks to this forum.. Calibration done
Got a random amber park brake warning light that sometimes appears, EPB is working fine though. Also both sets of parking sensors are random to say the least. will look at wiring and sensors sometime.
MOT and then I have some goodies to fit.
D4 2015 style grill
20" RRS supercharges alloys in gloss black (once I get some tyres)
2015 black LED rear lights (well I got 1 so far) !!
It's all fun.
<M>*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
Had a nice drive to the Mid somerset show today, it didn't miss a beat, looks like I cured the CANBUS issue.*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
Youtube/trollmanRS
20th Aug 2017 11:05 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2566
Split them, painted the inners gloss black, added 80W CREE LED Indicator bulbs + resistors), Philips copy Diamond Vision 5000k Main beam bulbs, and of course my own COB angel eyes.
Need a 2016 Black grille and black "Discovery" bonnet lettering next.*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
Youtube/trollmanRS
28th Aug 2017 10:58 pm
plocker
Member Since: 14 Mar 2016
Location: Preston
Posts: 828
Do you mean the headlights? No as they are bi-xenons so they don't reply on reflectors. You can see I have not painted the reflectors for the main beam.*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
Youtube/trollmanRS
29th Aug 2017 4:20 pm
SafariDave
Member Since: 19 Nov 2011
Location: NYC & LA
Posts: 775
I don't like how it looks at all. Its too home made and too much black.
I would have followed a bit the D4.5 head light scheme. Black inside area and black top and bottom.
DaveD3 2005 V8 SE Bonatti Grey "The Rhino" (our NYC D3)
De-tangoed Headlights, D4 2016 Style Black Pack Grille, D4 19" Wheels/ Bridgestone Alenza
D3 2005 V8 SE Bonatti Grey, D4 2016 Style Black Pack Grille (our LA D3)
D2 1999 V8 SD7 Chawton White (our Caribbean Beach truck)
Well time for an update, been almost another year since I last posted !!
MOT time last week, she flew through again, only advisory was chip in windscreen which has been there for years.
Well I have had to do a few small jobs on the V8 over the last few weeks, we have always had a misfire running on petrol (fine on LPG), when it was serviced by our local LPG specialist I asked them to look at it. He suspected the injection module and there are 2 of them (1 for each bank).
He got it working, but strangely when I did a clear fault using my IIT the misfire came back. So I took note of which cylinders were failing and swapped the plugs on said modules. sure enough the misfire moved as well.
Note to people using a Prins kit, the 4 cyc injection modules are no longer made so you have to buy a 6 cyc one. They still work the same. Glad to say it solved our issue and she runs perfectly smooth now.
A few weeks ago we took the truck along the Ridgeway (byway) up near us here in Wiltshire, right at the end there was a bit of low lying water, I went through it slowly and then there was a massive wooosh noise. N/S/F susp lowered. ummmm I limped it home and had a look and sure enough one of the plastic pipe joiners has failed (prev has melted pipe from manifold after a LR Indie routed pipe incorrectly). I replaced with a metal one and all good.... or so I thought !!
N/S/F continued to drop and compressor on a lot more. With me working in Russia at the world cup I didnt have time to look at it until last week. sure enough a pin hole in the airbag. New one ordered from Advance Factors, should be here any day hopefully.
Apart from that, she has been a dream, and very handy at logging timber around as I am building a new Chicken coop at the moment !!
*D3 V8 SE Blue 2004 on LPG with Rock sliders, roof rack/Ladder, snorkel, 275/65x18 STT Muds, engine/G/box ally protection.
*D2 TD5 Epson Green 2002 Off roader (weekend toy)
*D3 V8 HSE silver 2004 on LPG (Wife's) SOLD
*Maserati Gran Turismo, the Gentlemans cruiser with a V8 soundtrack.
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