Front clip painted with truck bed liner and shoved back on. Rad, p.s pump and modified bracket fitted. Managed to 're shape the vit pipes to save a few quid for now. New old stock master fitted. With short servo. 20191030_192913.jpg 20191030_152443.jpg 20191103_175008.jpg 20191106_194656.jpg 2019110...

Blimey. Can't believe how long I've had this ungreatful bastard thing. Either way. It now has an engine. Suspension. Most of a body. Wiring. Ermm that's about it. Out with the old, again. 20190911_193153.jpg In with the £10, 14k jap import lump Scottie the legend collected for me. Screenshot_2020032...

Welding. Discos are notorious for rot. The c pillars and rear archs are a common place. The rust goes between the quarter panel and inner structure. So I decided to chop the lot out higher up. Repair the sections individually then weld them back in. Used an of the shed inner wheel tube repair sectio...

A long overdue update, haven't really visited the site much but figured a few updates might help. The blue discovery basically got picked for parts and will be probably sold or scrapped later this year. The green discovery has trundled around fairly reliably. It was only when sorting out some of the...

Still pop on too have a look occasionally, few whatsapp messages between the usual suspects showing progress/despair. Minor suzuki progress between Astra and disco tinkering.

What's the mileage on the engine?

A complete rebuild sounds a bit drastic.

Did the car use oil alot before.

What's the hstory of the engine? Previous repairs etc etc

As jordi says, the axles can go porrus on the diff "pumpkin" mine went here and it weeped out diff oil.

Stick up some photos of the problem areas and some people should be able to suggest some fixes.

It was indeed broken down at the time in that last pic. Got me to the workshop tho, it was sucking in air about the fuel pick up pipe inside the tank.

Well the green discos been doing stirling service with only one recent FTP but I limped it to the barn luckily I was only a mile away. Apart from that she's a great old dolop and chugging up the miles. When purchased the disco felt down on power and had a Flat spot on hoist, it had turned out to be ...