Used the winch to pull a nice couple in a new Subaru out of a snowbank.

 

Finally got my new radiator shipped yesterday afternoon and installed it last night. Mine started as a slow leak that quickly because a stream from where the end cap meets the core on the lower passenger side. Soaked the fasteners down with PB blaster over the weekend while I had the grill and headlights out, so it went in without a hitch.

 

Had a code pop up today. Hill descent control - short or bad ground in the stop lamp circuit is what my OBD reader tells me. No numbers, just the text. Think it's just a bad switch at the pedal?

 

Bad brake light switch would disable gear shifter movement. If you ever can't get it out of park, this is the problem.

Did you check your brake light bulbs/fuses? Otherwise I don't have any experience with that code reader response.

 

My 2000 Disco turned 100,000 yesterday. Party hats, balloons and a big cake. It was quite a celebration. Today the three amigos showed up. You can't beat that kind of timing.

 

Got my reward today for getting it right this time!

 

All my brake lights work, even when HDC is operating. HDC also operates just fine. I'm thinking I have a loose ground somewhere because the HDC light comes on and turns off intermittently.

On another note. I changed every exterior bulb on my truck since a bunch were burnt and others were dull and due for replacement. What do the little peanut bulbs at the bottom of the main headlamp housing do exactly? I thought they might be for DRL which my truck should have (Canadian law) but they don't do that. They only come on with low beams

 

The donor p38 4.6 in my D2 just hit 100k and dutifully developed a front cover leak. It soon became
obvious that the headgaskets had let go between rear of the engine and the firewall.

Sweet timing right before Christmas! The silver lining is that I'm going to powder coat the valve covers and get the headers ceramic coated and doing everything at once should have me buttoned up for some time into the future.

Time to clean up the Plenum and valve covers.
Might as well do the timing chain and oil pump while at it.
Frustrating.

 

Uh oh. You're jinxed. The rover gods do not like thoughts like this being expressed, especially publicly.

 

With regret, I have decided to put my 03' SE in the chopping block and focus on finishing my 00' TreK.
It runs super but I lost my storage and I just cannot do $250 per vehicle per month ( and I had five vehicles in there ).