Rich exhaust and soot

[Disco Joe]

***WARNING NEWBIE ALERT*** Hello everyone I just purchase my first Disco in the hopes of a great driving experience as well as trying to lear a thing or 2 about auto repair. It's a 2004 Discovery series 2. I have done some small things so far like replace the head unit and some trim work. But I have been noticing that on warm up especially the exhaust smells rich and there are black deposits at the end of the tail pipe. My mpg also sucks. I wanted to see if anyone has encountered this and if I should replace the o2 sensor could this be causing the issue? I haven't run the codes yet. I also plan on adding Seafoam, is there anyone that could shed some light on this process? Any help would be appreciated.

[d2luvr]

Joe - These rigs run rich. Period. Economy should be 10-15 town and 12-16 highway.

In the Discovery II section read all the stickies. That will solve 75% of your problems with your truck.

On another note, could you add details of your truck to your signature please ( miles, any service you have done, and any mods you have made). This will help in the future.

[Disco Mike]

Joe,
Go read my stick at the top of the D2 section on major maintances. If you want to learn what makes your truck work, do the entire list along with rebuilding/replacing the front drive shaft prior to it breaking and taking out your tranny, then go make the truck pretty,

[Disco Joe]

Disco Mike have you been snooping around my desk LOL I printed that sticky and am planning on going down the list by the end of this month. I didn't pull the sticky on the drive shaft but I will. I am going to be doing my first ever oil change this weekend very excited.

[Disco Mike]

Send me your e-mail address and I'll send you a PDF on rebuilding the front drive shaft.