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Safe Wading Deph of Disco 2 V8?

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Reggieroo:
Mine has two holes on the bottom of the dizzy & it did cause me problems as My RRC cut out through a very deep ford & got me stranded & waterlogged  :(

The reason it caught me out was because I had gone through it before many times with no problems, so it just shows it can happen anytime if you don't prep your car properly before wading.

So now the dizzy is off, the two holes have been drilled & tapped & fitted with some small nipples from a model shop.

Two breather pipes have also been fitted, just trying to decide the best place for them to go.

Also I've put silicone sealer round any joins on the dizzy like where the vacuum fits just in case & got some new leads to ensure a snug fit on the cap & so forth.

Wish me luck next time  :lol:

smurf:
Thanks for all the replies.

I finally went to Land Rover, asked then nice man behind the service desk & he got a technician.......

The pipe pictured should be free & unconnected, its the vent for the charcoal cannister..... there we go, simple (we all knew that really).  There not allowed to vent the tanks direct to the atmosphere anymore, so that also answers my earlier query about the black box with pipes in & out behind the transfer case!

As for your earlier suggestions regarding the dizzy, its all electronic now.  No distributor to worry about & all the HT is behind the engine.

All I need to do now is find out where the transfer case & auto box breathers are.

Fourby:
I went through a swollen ford in my TD5 and killed my engine, i hit the water current offside broadside which came over the bonnet and about half way up the drivers window. the engine sputtered lost power but just about got me to dry land the other side.

I called out the RAC and just sat sulking thinking that it had hydrolocked, and fearfull of the cost of a new lump. :oops:  the man just sucked his teeth and said it's dead!

on closer inspection there was no sign of water or damp in the air filter, so no hydrolock. The RAC man hooked up his laptop to read the diags but was just getting scrambled garbage back. so we took out the ECU.

about 1/2pint of river water drained out of the holes in the ECU itself!

we got recoverd on the back of a truck and the ECU spent the next couple of days  at home on the radiator drying out.

The pressure of the water current hitting the front wheel arch had risen up the drain holes in the ECU holder box and flooded it and the ECU inside.

I've learned my lesson there, that was a scary couple of days thinking about the cost. I now have second thoughts about fitting a snorkel as it seems the ECU is vunerable. Dont ford a swollen river in a TD5 if there is a strong current running right to left and never believe what the depth guage says! :shock:

Reggieroo:
The same thing happened to my ECU in the incident I just mentioned when I got stranded.

My whole cabin filled with water right up to the base of the seats & my ECU & ABS ECU are under the seats  :cry:

I got the Rangie running straight after we got it out the water because it runs on LPG ( WD40 in the dizzy cap also ) but as for the petrol side of things, not sure yet as my ECU has been drying out in the kitchen for a week or so.

I've siliconed it all up including the holes it has it has in it & I'm just waiting to put my waterproofed dizzy back in to see how it runs, if it runs on petrol again that is.

It just shows that the good people at Land Rover didn't want us wading our vehicles in deep water...................so waterproof it yourself & don't put your trust in Land Rover to have done it because they haven't.

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