Alright tonight I drove my D1 during a real Florida rainstorm for the first time. Big puddles everywhere, and of course I'm running through them like a kid in a go-cart, pretty quickly but nothing crazy (20-30 mph). At one point I noticed a very short (1-2 sec) chirp of the serpentine belt, which then repeated a few more times over the course of a minute or two. I then went to make a left-hand turn, and found that my power steering was gone. Luckily I was on side-roads, so I pulled over and noticed that my battery light was on. I quickly killed the A/C and radio, and a moment later the battery light turned off and my power steering came back. The battery light has never come on before, and my battery is high-CCA and fairly new. So what does this all add up to? I have no idea. If I'm a betting man, I'd say one of the puddles I splashed through got my crankshaft pulley wet, which allowed it to slip on my serpentine belt, stopping all belt-driven accessories (power steering, alternator, etc). Can anyone else confirm that this makes sense? Would my battery light come on that quickly?

 

 

Make sure the ECU isn't getting wet. Its located right at the hood fender seam on the passenger side of the engine compartment. The plastic box covering mine wasn't firmly attached and after a hard rain the truck wouldn't even start for a day or so. Puddles would cause misses and partial power losses. I made sure it was adequately sealed against the elements and the mystery issues vanished. (knock on wood).

 

Hope you can afford the ownership costs.

There's allot of posers out there. No offense.

I just got back from the local junkyard and there is a white D1 with original side emblem with a bad tranny. The owner had it 10 months and could not afford to repair it and had to choose between rent and repair.

This type of person has no business owning a Land Rover.

 

 

"afford the ownership cost..." the D1s are pretty damn awesome in that regard. Simple, parts are relatively cheap, the trucks themselves are just now moving above "throwaway or donate" values, there is lots of online support.... its actually a decent vehicle for the the mechanically inclined welfare queen. You could get into trouble taking it to marque specialist "land rover" mechanic, but what any of that has to do with OPs original problem I have no idea.

 

None of what you said is helpful to his question or issue.

 

Yea the rant comment was outta left field sorry about that i had a few drinks. I'd just got back from the Junkyard where a beautiful DI was dropped off,. The guy said it was in eprfectly fine except for the Tranny which the owner could not afford to fix because they had to pay rent. A couple years ago I watched a women pay with EBT (USA Welfare card for food) then drive off in a run down Disco II. I get allot of people asking me about the car on the street. They go online and see you can get one for 1-3k. They buy it can't afford to fix it and it goes to scrap.

 

Actually those comments are completely in character for you on other forums.

 

I deal with a lot of different Land Rover owners. Some of them absolutely amaze me with their enthusiasm for the brand, their willingness to put up with crazy automotive issues and their remarkable ingenuity for solving the impossible. I say some. They are, by far and away the minority. Most are people with little more than a passing knowledge of the Land Rover heritage. They saw a truck that looked cool, they wouldn't see everywhere, and was cheap to buy. You can't hold that against them that they got involved with a vehicle that had the potential to be more demanding, more costly than most. They were working with the resources they had.

There are also plenty of people in this the richest country in the world, for whom a $500 emergency could cause a significant financial difficulty.

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I don't think it mattered much what kind of vehicle it was that 99FLDISCOII saw at the junk yard, be it a Land Rover or a Subaru or a Chevy. The cost of buying and installing a replacement transmission can be more than a lot of American families can afford regardless of the vehicle.