The body is being lifted off my D3 next week I have quite a bad oil leak at the rear of the engine so I have decided to have it lifted and sorted. While its off I will do a few other jobs like check cross over pipe, brake pipes and then I have taken a day off work to clean chassis and treat it. Also I am nosey and want to see it come off I will of course take pictures or else it never happened. O yes and take off high pressure pump and have it checked to see if we can get to the bottom of the surging problem at traffic lights and the nearly stalling. Mick (Flack) thinks it could be the low pressure pump in the tank because before he went away Fortified by Haffners pies he did a pressure check and it was a little low. That was going off Robbies guide to all things diesel pumped So in fact both low and high pressure pumps will be checked. Anybody think of anything else while he has his kit off ?
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8th Jul 2016 6:30 pm
RBP
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Mark, many men would have given up by now - I take my hat off to you
How's your Mrs taking the news - mine would have insisted a trade in on a VW Sharan some time ago I reckon
She wont know, it has regularly disappeared for days on end over the last year. Got to say it has not been the most reliable or the cheapest car to own but I did not buy it for that. If I wanted cheap and reliable I would have bought a Nissan Micra
Wait a minute I did because my wife wrote the last one off
I had a long list of issues with my D3, got them all sorted in the end & it was as sweet as can be, then I sold it!Paul.
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12 Baltic Blue HSE - gone
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Traxide/Luna hybrid & Yellow top
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I cant afford to, I would not want to either Paul as it will have had most things done. I will ring you as soon as Deb goes out
8th Jul 2016 7:14 pm
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Aerialmark wrote:
She does not know Richard, she thinks it is going in for a £35 Intercooler pipe fitting that Flack has already done on Tuesday
I know how this feels - Ive left a note in my will to tell my wife, to please not sell my shotguns for what I said I bought them for....
8th Jul 2016 8:11 pm
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At least you made a sound financial investment in those shotguns as the value has soared since your purchase
If only we could say the same re Discoveries D4 Landmark MY16 Santorini Black THE LAST
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hell Mark you're having some bad luck bro, anyway, I think Del posted a quite a while ago a list of jobs to get sorted whilst the body was off. I'll see if I can find his post, unless somebody else finds it first
Let's hope this turns it into the car it should have been
8th Jul 2016 9:58 pm
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Hi Mark things to do
Remove arb bolts grease refit rears
Brake pipes
Top front arms easy
Rear top arm rear bolt see if it's seized if it is cut it out if it's not remove and grease
Poss worth removing greasing Handbrake module mounting bolts
Good clean and wax
Modify turbo bolts to easy removal with body on
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8th Jul 2016 10:31 pm
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Cue gratuitous body off picture. Really enjoyed the exprience.
I Changed the turbo but also decided to change rear upper suspension arms while body was off.
hell Mark you're having some bad luck bro, anyway, I think Del posted a quite a while ago a list of jobs to get sorted whilst the body was off. I'll see if I can find his post, unless somebody else finds it first
Let's hope this turns it into the car it should have been
Thanks Stephen
9th Jul 2016 7:25 am
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I have quite a bad oil leak at the rear of the engine so I have decided to have it lifted and sorted. While its off I will do a few other jobs like check cross over pipe, brake pipes and then I have taken a day off work to clean chassis and treat it. Also I am nosey and want to see it come off 
I will of course take pictures or else it never happened. O yes and take off high pressure pump and have it checked to see if we can get to the bottom of the surging problem at traffic lights and the nearly stalling. Mick (Flack) thinks it could be the low pressure pump in the tank because before he went away Fortified by Haffners pies he did a pressure check and it was a little low. That was going off Robbies guide to all things diesel pumped 
So in fact both low and high pressure pumps will be checked. Anybody think of anything else while he has his kit off ?
to that.
