If you have not been following my saga, quick run down

bought Disco I
head gaskets blown
removed heads found hole in piston
removed bad piston, cylinder found good

I watched the video for the block leak tester (that sells for $250). I thought it a good thing to check since I had the bad piston and blown head gasket.

I made my own for exactly zero dollars (helps to work some place with scrap metal and hardware). If I had to buy everything it would have cost less than $20.

Anyway, I pressurized the block and no leaks! woo hoo!

Heads are going to the machine shop tomorrow and I am ordering a new piston tonight.

Come on Rover - breath again!!!! Thanks to all that provided direction to date. You have made Disco ownership hopeful!

 

hooray! It is always nice when you find out something is NOT wrong with the discos. It is sort of a love/i was to drive it off a bridge into an active volcano, relationship.

 

Ha! Too bad I had to dig so far to find that "something"!

 

Isn't that the truth!?!

Glad the block test went well for you. Hope you have your Disco back to life soon.