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taffrican
Member Since: 08 Apr 2012
Location: Gloucestershire
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Evening chaps, not been on here often as I am a defender man and usually reside over on Defender2.net  but the wife has a disco 3, a lovely vehicle which I love to drive (when she lets me  ).
Today when moving her car to allow someone to get their car out she was approached by a chap from the office accross the road and he said to her that he could hear that ( in her words ) one of the downpipes was leaking and she had to be careful as she could blow a head gasket if she didn't get it looked at (he claims he used to work for LR), I appreciate his advise but saying that to my mrs is like telling her the engine is about to catastophically implode and she doesn't want to drive it now.... Like I said, I am a defender bloke and know VERY little about the Disco 3, is there more than one downpipe? big job to change? expensive? and what are the chances of the engine/head gasket going boom?
Sorry for all the questions 
thanks in advance
Mike 
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 10th Feb 2016 8:45 pm |
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doz
Member Since: 15 Jun 2014
Location: Southampton
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I have never heard of a blown exhaust taking out a head gasket from any blow. That's the good news bad news is it's probably the cross over (link pipe) pipe that runs round the back of the block and is a pig to work on. You need to get it checked out to confirm exactly where the blow is from or if you've got one at all as one man's sayso from across the street doesn't really count
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| 10th Feb 2016 10:29 pm |
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HappyEater
Member Since: 25 Jun 2014
Location: Ontario
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I agree, I'm not an expert but sounds rubbish.
...but if any area other than back boxes need doing I take it to the shop - I hate doing anything on an exhaust!
Why don't you tell your wife he was looking for a reason to talk to her! Probably tries to use it as a pick up line. 
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| 11th Feb 2016 2:58 am |
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taffrican
Member Since: 08 Apr 2012
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 27
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Thanks for the tips, I didn't believe it would cause any damage but just wanted to make sure so the Mrs could still drive it until I got it sorted, I did tell her that the guy was probably trying to chat her up.
I've booked it in to the local garage down the road as I know fine well I'll end up snapping studs off and I can't be bothered with that, as I would be working outside.
Thanks again for the input chaps.
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| 11th Feb 2016 11:34 am |
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ST53VEN
Member Since: 18 Dec 2012
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 263
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I have a new decat downpipe for a TDV6 sitting in the garage if you need one.
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| 11th Feb 2016 5:24 pm |
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taffrican
Member Since: 08 Apr 2012
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 27
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Thanks for the offer ST53VEN, much appreciated, if you were within collection range I would take it but seeing as I've already offered the job to my local chap I will pass
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| 12th Feb 2016 2:48 pm |
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