Ownership Verified: My 99 Discovery 2

[mitchell.scott]

Love seeing your Disco take shape. I wish we had the manual diesel here, all the Discos in the US have too many electrics to go wrong.

 

[Matt2000]

No mine has the elctronics stuff, apparently it still has diff lock capable just needs a little bit done to get it working.

Edit: which I have just decided to do, Going to order the Diff lock linkage for it.

Nice, along with the traction control it'll be pretty much unstoppable. They all had the diff lock internals in the transfer box, just for some reason LR didn't fit the linkage.

 

[TroyWK]

On Holidays and had a few days of crap weather. which sounded like a good oppertunity to give the disco a run off-road.

 

[TroyWK]

Went camping for the easter long weekend and did a little bit of 4x4, also had to rescue a 2wd Van stuck on a muddy hill.

My old suburban still continuing its treand of reliability for its new owner: Distributor and starter both died.

 

[Matt2000]

Slippery tree roots are a bitch, momentum or aggressive tyres are the only ways to get up them.

Looks like great fun, I may be joining you in D2 ownership but that will be strictly on-road.

 

[TroyWK]

CDL probably would have helped. Rears were just digging holes in the mud.

 

[TroyWK]

Newest addition to my setup is this new camping trailer. Going to set it up with battery and fridge eventually, but will make a much nicer base camp for 4x4ing trips

 

[Hbriz]

Looks very nice!

 

[TroyWK]

Well the disco showed its first sign of land rover ness.

It started running quite rough and was down on power and got worse over about 2 weeks to the stage where it felt like it was on 3 cyl.
After fixing up a fe bits and pieces it turned out to be the Fuel pump, when we connected a pressure gauge it registered at 0, So pretty impressed it was running with no fuel pressure.

New pump and good as new.

Mainly been working on the camper lately, New lights, wiring up camping lights, 12v ports for fridge and a stereo since i had a spare head deck sitting around.

 

[TroyWK]

So after I destroyed the stock front bumper off roading (See video) I decided to fork out some coin on a front bar.

Here it is with the new XROX bar, I will be changing the way I have the lights on the bar as the old light bar doesn't look quite right.

 

[Der Stig]

Looks slick!

 

[WDWBen]

Oooooooh, shiny new bumper...

 

[TroyWK]

After this my friends no longer say I have too many lights

[video=youtube;SGtgS11-tV4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGtgS11-tV4[/video]

Also finally got a lift kit which has brought height up about 70mm / 3 inches

 

[TroyWK]

Been a while and quite a few changes.

Mainly 12,000LB winch
New tyres (Larger)
Roof Basket
Straight Through exhaust

 

[Matt2000]

TD5s sound great with a straight-through exhaust. New mods look great.

I'm going to resist the temptation to do these mods to mine, I'm determined to keep it bog standard.

Edit: Actually it needs some Mach 5 wheels, just not in orange...

 

[TroyWK]

Straight through Exhaust goodness

 

[TroyWK]

Retractable Side Awning

New spotlights

 

[Perc]

I was waiting for you to go "bah, fuck it", reverse and then gun it like a maniac up the hill at the end.

 

[TroyWK]

[video=youtube;r2r-ilE1E7w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2r-ilE1E7w[/video]

R.I.Pieces rear bumper

 

[Matt2000]

Oops. It's only a matter of time with the longer overhang compared to a D1 and an even longer bumper. Don't worry, I bent the steel 'heavy duty' bumper on Keely.