Good point. I recently replaced the belt and thought it might be a good idea to swap this as well.

 

Joined Land Rover Forums.com today! I have owned my 1998 Discovery 1 for years. Nigel as I call him. I have been using this site and a few other forums for years and just decided to join today.

 

Oil / filter change and finally swapped out the fuel filter as I don’t think it’s ever been replaced.

 

Drove the Rover to the gas station and put some gas in it.

 

Changed the oil in two of the three diffs (front & center). It was getting late and I wanted to go home and eat.
Bought one of those drill pumps. Drilled and tapped the ends to 1/4 NPT. Beats pumping with one of those wee hand dooies.

 

oil & filter change. air filter too. Then ate turkey. stuffed

 

Topped off a few fluids.

 

Decided to change the transfer case oil. Today was the first snowfall in the city and temp at around 0 degrees C or 32 F (Vancouver, BC, Canada). I crawled under my 95 Landy Disco 1 which is parked in a dry carport, removed the fill plug and removed the drain plug. Everything was going good until my fluid transfer pump didn’t want to pump 2.3 litres of 85w140 gear oil. Spent the last hour squeezing cold gear oil from the bottle into the transfer case. Kinda wish I knew that 85w140 gear oil was so thick, like honey, while laying beneath a stock D1 in 32F weather. Gotta get some ramps at least sometime.

Stock 95 Discovery D1
245,000km

 

Next time, put the sealed bottle of gear oil in a bucket of hot water for a while.
It'll flow alot smoother.

 

That a great idea, but it takes away from the “struggles” of maintenance. Makes me less of that hero in my wife’s eyes.