Has anyone worked on them. Me and my brother are changing a engine on one and its looking like we have to take the body off to remove the engine and its never ending the things we are having to take off. we have never worked on them so we dont know what we have to take off and what not to.
anyone worked on the thats got any tips because its a nightmare

 

My mate works on them,He sent me a pic few months back, they had to change the turbo he said its so much easier to take body off to change turbo/engine i thought that was mad but best way mate

 

ya got take body off mate

 

I removed headlights,grills,rad,front panel ect.Then disconected front subframe from car with engine and box still attached.Bit of an ass o a job

 

yeah looks like we have to. wouldnt you think they would have made it a little bit easyer to take out than taking the hole body off. what a fuck on.

 

 

I imagine they didn't expect to have to do many engine changes - maybe thats why your doing it?

Is it a Cat d or somet??? Water damaged/fucked engine?

 

The engine locks up, it turns so far then just locks then when you turn it back it seems to lock in the same place.

 

I bet its not a cheap job then - did you not consider taking the top end off to have a look at it?

 

Yeah but it looks like will prob have to take the body off to do that aswell

1 of the turbos snapped its shaft and it was a nightmare to get that off then realised there was a bit of the turbo shaft missing so took the boost hoses off to find it (which we did) when we got coverd in about 4 litres of oil.
Thats when tried turning it by hand and found it locks so we took all 8 injectors out to see if this made any differance and see if any of them had any oil on them.

No oil on injectors and still wont turn so now we are taking the engine out

Glad im not paying for it.

 

not good how many miles has it done?

 

Dont think its done many miles will find out.

Had a bit of progress today and got the engine out

 

 

Then we put the body back on the chassis and parked it up then time to find out what is wrong with the engine.

 

that is mad

 

Unbelievable

 

Was planning buying 1 off these, having second thoughts now though, what a nightmare.....

 

Yeah it is mad i have been told on the older ones you have to take the body off to change the turbo.

 

ha still looks funny now. didnt realy take us that long to do it tho. realy nice car but dont think il be get 1

 

that will never be the same again lol
should have torched it

 

Whats the labour charge going to be?

I wanted one of these, not to sure now!!

 

not getting any money for doing it mate. its a lad that works with us. doing it on a night. its not hard mate just a fuck on. we started late the on tuesday so just got the bumpers and rads out all 5 of them and on thurday night we started at 6 and where pushing the shell out at 9

 

Why would you think that. not working in a back street garage there mate and we did think of that but couldnt do it.

 

looks like i ryt ball ache cba

joe

 

its all just more experiance for us,
I would do another but would have to charge for it that time ha

 

super bram brothers can fix anything but they cant fit timing belts on cozzieshaha.

 

well then you can fit your own next time eh ha ha

 

[quote=martin willetts;5044578]super bram brothers can fix anything but they cant fit timing belts on cozzieshaha.[/quo

Mine was ok, stevs is ok, henders is ok, pauls is ok, randys is ok, yours was ok the first time until you wanted to clean your timing belt with a cloth and with the engine running lol

 

new discovery 4's is a shell off job to change the turbo's!

 

Cant for the life of me see why that ever made it past the design stage

 

4K me is this right ?
What a fuck about,I am glad I will never have to do this job
What I should of wrote was "fuck that for a game of shotties (spl)

 

thats a right ball ache!

 

my mate has a vogue one in 6 months the air suspension bag has gone twice at a cost of 1300 each time the warranty diddnt cover it,hes now spent about 4000 on it,he bought it for 17000 now worth 11000 trade in been a expensive car,also needs a Ł100 in diesal a week i told him not to but it lol.

 

very true, it just nuts and bolts at the end of the day.


never would have though you have to remove the shell, 2 poster ramp is a must it would seem!

 

Does that one not have a front subframe? cant see too clear in pics? .I just took the front subframe still connected to engine and box and dropped that out,didnt take whole body off.Could have been slightly earlier version.

 

No mate dosnt have a subframe never see a range rover with one but if it did i would have did that.

 

fuck that!

i bet your left with a box of bits when its all back together lol

 

Discovery 4's are a pain in the ass as you can't get in at anything, done egr valves other day and were a fook on, just done the heads on an overfinch range rover which was a ball ache. You'd think something this big you'd be able to get in and be loads of room.
I would never have a new disco or range rover after the past few weeks of working on them.

 

looks like a right ball ache, change the turbo on my rs, front bumber off, rad and cooler off, your there then lol.

 

Was a vogue i did which must be different layout to the sport.