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Salty

Member Since: 18 Nov 2020
Location: Norfolk/Suffolk border
Posts: 11

it’s been a while, probably time for a bit of an update...

So I got the engine and box out eventually, made myself a bit of a frame to land it on. Was rather pleasantly surprised how easy it actually was, although the strut to hub bolts were fully hard work to get undone...

The o/s turbo was actually pretty good, but the n/s was very dead. Oil seals gone, and had filled up most of the pipe work and the radiator aswell. New reman OEM turbos both sides.. and slowly got it back together. Fitted the egr blanks and blanked the manifold end of them aswell.

Cleaned up all the rads, it was quite amazing the amount of stuff in between the cooling rad and the inter cooler!

Changed the gearbox sump, sleeve and oil at the same time... so today it’s exhaust and coming home!! Never been this excited about a car... I’m actually shocked at myself...

16th Jan 2021 6:39am

KurtVerbose

Member Since: 08 Aug 2010
Location: Les Arses
Posts: 5848

2007 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

Lucky you didn't have runaway diesel engine with all that oil in the intercooler.

Thanks for the update.

16th Jan 2021 9:25am

Jayk69

Member Since: 08 Feb 2018
Location: Daventry
Posts: 601

2012 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Barolo Black

Epic wish i had a workshop i could do so much more!!
note to self befriend a nice farmer for some space
Keep up the good work looking forward to the next update 2012 Vogue 4.4 TDV8 - Current
2014 Navara V6 - Gone
2004 Vogue TD6 - Gone
Grand Cherokee - Gone
Discovery V8 (LPG) - Gone
Discovery TD5 - Gone

16th Jan 2021 12:35pm

verydisco

Member Since: 10 Dec 2009
Location: UK/US
Posts: 2952

2002 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Tangiers Orange

Salty wrote:
This CAN't be that bad.

TDV8 L322 in question: "hold my beer''...

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RANGE ROVER Vogue 4.4L SDV8 - 2013 - Indus Silver, on Almond.
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RANGE ROVER HSE 4.4L V8 - 2004 - one-of-one Overfinch
RANGE ROVER P38a 4.0L V8 - 1999 - ex-2000 TReK Event Vehicle: South Africa

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16th Jan 2021 10:18pm

Salty

Member Since: 18 Nov 2020
Location: Norfolk/Suffolk border
Posts: 11

So, I managed a whole 2 weeks on the road, before the MOT. So happy with her, we’ve called her Lola. Easily the best car I’ve owned.

Did a bit of an exhaust upgrade while I was in there. Fairly strange that it had 4 cats on. It’s only got “2” now. (Whistling gently)

Down pipes and system now 2.5” both sides. Nice and bassy but no drone which is what I wanted. It’s a RR after all.
I noticed a bit of a suspension clonk, so bought an entire delphi front arm and ball joint kit prior to the mot. And it failed on those and the f-r brake pipes..

I’ve not had the full bill yet, as I couldn’t find the time for this, had to let my mot guy do the work. Hopefully he’s looked after me.

Wow it corners now!! Hate the grabber tyres though. Hoping they just need a scrubbing up, it did 1800 miles between mot’s last year... it’s gonna do more than that for next year. Need to get the remap done.

Next stop is tackling the rust!!

4th Feb 2021 8:26pm

Haylands

Member Since: 04 Mar 2014
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 8163

2014 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Coming on nicely... Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

4th Feb 2021 8:57pm

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