What did you do with your DII today?
Camel Trophy
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 4,860
Likes: 1,401
From: Michigan
Brian - The inner weights go on both sides, I can take a picture on my rims to show you. I do beg to differ that the rim mounts provide better balancing as none of my high performance cars nor the track cars have weights mounted on the rim lips. If this did provide better balancing, my assumption would be that the high performance community would be leveraging this instead of the inner mount weights, however, I am not an expert and have no data to back up my comment other than personal experience and what I see at the track.
My thoughts...it may just boil down to ascetics as I could not find any articles on advantages of lip mounted verses adhesive. But, I am still very interested if anyone has some info that provides advantages from one set up to the another.
My thoughts...it may just boil down to ascetics as I could not find any articles on advantages of lip mounted verses adhesive. But, I am still very interested if anyone has some info that provides advantages from one set up to the another.
Off-road/larger diameter tires are the bottom of the food chain in performance, quality and intergerty. There is much more room for deflection in material on a larger tire, so balancing becomes difficult to do on the inner portion of the rim...alone.
Just going to leave it that.
Brian.
Three Wheeling
Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 81
Likes: 5
From: Michigan City, IN
Put on my insulated coveralls and crawled under it with proper tools to change the CPS. I thought I read that it was by #7 cylinder. I have got nothing there but a ground strap. Came back inside. Watched a short video- Thanks Lucky8- Went back and did it, except for the plug. How the heck does one reach that? I don't see there's length to move it anywhere.
Last edited by freedisco; Nov 12, 2017 at 02:41 PM.
Recovery Vehicle
Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 1,238
Likes: 240
From: Alabama + Vegas + Texas
Drove the Disco2 to a local PullApart, crawled under a junked Disco2 and salvaged its XYZ neutral safety switch.
$600 new.
$11.25 at Pull A Part. Used a 10mm spanner and a 13mm. Just 3 nuts and 1 plastic wiring harness connection to undo.
Didn't have to jack up the vehicle. Didn't have to remove anything else. 15 minutes for the whole shebang if you include washing my hands afterwards.
Easy.
Now I have a spare!
$600 new.
$11.25 at Pull A Part. Used a 10mm spanner and a 13mm. Just 3 nuts and 1 plastic wiring harness connection to undo.
Didn't have to jack up the vehicle. Didn't have to remove anything else. 15 minutes for the whole shebang if you include washing my hands afterwards.
Easy.
Now I have a spare!
Last edited by No Doubt; Nov 13, 2017 at 04:38 PM.
Camel Trophy
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 3,880
Likes: 950
From: Charlotte
Drove the Disco2 to a local PullApart, crawled under a junked Disco2 and salvaged its XYZ neutral safety switch.
$600 new.
$11.25 at Pull A Part. Used a 10mm spanner and a 13mm. Just 3 nuts and 1 plastic wiring harness connection to undo.
Didn't have to jack up the vehicle. Didn't have to remove anything else. 15 minutes for the whole shebang if you include washing my hands afterwards.
Easy. Now I have a spare!
$600 new.
$11.25 at Pull A Part. Used a 10mm spanner and a 13mm. Just 3 nuts and 1 plastic wiring harness connection to undo.
Didn't have to jack up the vehicle. Didn't have to remove anything else. 15 minutes for the whole shebang if you include washing my hands afterwards.
Easy. Now I have a spare!
Three Wheeling
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 77
Likes: 9
From: Toronto
Seem to have developed a coolant leak, hard to pinpoint the location but I fear the head gaskets, hopeful it might be the front seal in the water pump.
I had planned a tear down in the spring of the front housing and oil pump.
If I can't locate the leak, I'll just have to put up with it. Too cold now to be working on the vehicle in the drive, not for me but for the temps of the metal and how they need to be bolted together and torqued.
Should have bought that GX460 lol.
I had planned a tear down in the spring of the front housing and oil pump.
If I can't locate the leak, I'll just have to put up with it. Too cold now to be working on the vehicle in the drive, not for me but for the temps of the metal and how they need to be bolted together and torqued.
Should have bought that GX460 lol.
Drifting
Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 38
Likes: 3
From: Portland, OR
Seem to have developed a coolant leak, hard to pinpoint the location but I fear the head gaskets, hopeful it might be the front seal in the water pump.
I had planned a tear down in the spring of the front housing and oil pump.
If I can't locate the leak, I'll just have to put up with it. Too cold now to be working on the vehicle in the drive, not for me but for the temps of the metal and how they need to be bolted together and torqued.
Should have bought that GX460 lol.
I had planned a tear down in the spring of the front housing and oil pump.
If I can't locate the leak, I'll just have to put up with it. Too cold now to be working on the vehicle in the drive, not for me but for the temps of the metal and how they need to be bolted together and torqued.
Should have bought that GX460 lol.
Rock Crawling
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 411
Likes: 102
From: Delaware County, PA
-Been dealing with keyless entry issue for years; after sitting all night in cold weather, fob would not unlock doors. -Had to use key in door to unlock. Came across an old service bulletin on Dweb about this issue. Only fix is to replace the receiver module in the roof. Apparently the defective receivers go into sleep mode. Don't know why only in cold weather, but the sb mentioned that the problem is more prevalent in the cold. Since I was going to take headliner down (again) to install roof rail extensions supplied by Shift on the Fly, I replaced the module with one supplied by Paul Grant. Works great now! Range is better too. Also gonna insulate the roof while I'm there; others have said it makes a big difference in summer.
This is all after replacing my rear diff that failed, with a good used one supplied by Randy at Rover Bones, and replacing all calipers, brakes and rotors, power bleeding and now having brakes that I don't have to double pump any more! Thanks to Sotf, Paul and Randy for the parts! Will this never end?? -just kidding, I love doing this stuff when I have the time, and the truck is running better than ever (knock wood)!
This is all after replacing my rear diff that failed, with a good used one supplied by Randy at Rover Bones, and replacing all calipers, brakes and rotors, power bleeding and now having brakes that I don't have to double pump any more! Thanks to Sotf, Paul and Randy for the parts! Will this never end?? -just kidding, I love doing this stuff when I have the time, and the truck is running better than ever (knock wood)!
Mudding
Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 197
Likes: 23
I have panhard conversion and my welded bracket snapped (not my conversion or welding). It was a wild thing to drive lol but not horrible.
I just cleaned the metal really well and welded on angle iron for a new platen to weld the bracket to.
The thing that really gets you during the conversion is making sure to ground the welder right. I burnt both custom extended brake lines (+150mm) like a moron trying to ground to the spring
I just cleaned the metal really well and welded on angle iron for a new platen to weld the bracket to.
The thing that really gets you during the conversion is making sure to ground the welder right. I burnt both custom extended brake lines (+150mm) like a moron trying to ground to the spring
