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Well, it's got four wheels at least! :) My D2 is in having some laning bodywork damage rectified, so we used Philip's D2 to take the trailer down to Bracknell to collect my latest engine. It's a 1927 Ruston & Hornsby 6hp AP (Agricultural Paraffin) engine. The seller was also a Landie owner...

We went to a small Landy forum get together last weekend in the Leicestershire countryside. The road-going D2 wasn't really outfitted for wet and rutted laning, but we only get stuck once and it was fun, 6 hours of it. The big trailer and Philip's Sankey Widetrack conversion were in use, the...

Got tempted by a 'Barn Find' D2 on fleabay, had a look at it yesterday, 64k miles, aircon, no ACE, manual box, 5 seater, $1450. Sunroofs leak, bit damp inside, trim etc undamaged but a bit of mould around. Mileage confirmed by annual inspection records, it has covered 200 miles in five years...

A very happy 2016 to all of our friends on Discoweb. Peter

As this is towed by a Discovery 2 V8, I'll sneak it in here :) Our youngest wanted a live-in camper that would go off-road, so he bought a Sankey Widetrack Mk2 and after some time ruminating, started on modifying the chassis. I'll post a couple of pictures so those interested can get the...

Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2016. Hopefully I'll be through the medical stuff and can get back into some serious spanner work and also get the Mercedes bus conversion finished. Peter

While I've been recovering from heart surgery I've had time to play around with some of my dashcam videos, and have put some on Youtube. Most are related to manouvering the trailer, but there's a couple of us leaving a campsite in France one morning to drive up to Holland, really nice morning...

Last winter, the handle on the front passenger door stopped opening the door after a freezing night following rain. It remained so until the weather warmed up, but then started working again, albeit slightly irregularly. A quick look at RAVE shows that when you pull the handle to open the...

It has indeed been a while since I posted last, not sure if that's a good thing or not ;) Heart issues have been causing me a lot of problems, but after some procedures yesterday when I had a check of the arteries by Angiogram, I have been referred for the heart operation to University Hospital...

We are over on the USA side for three weeks, of which one week has passed quickly already. We are house-sitting for our good friend Tim while he is overseas visiting family. He bought a new Atlas 10000lb wheel-free hoist which we finished off this last week and got working. It is well made...

We've taken the plunge and bought a Mercedes 614D minibus to convert into a motorhome. That's our Renault Trafic van behind it, and a VW Golf beyond that, it's a big beastie! Intention is to tow the big 6-wheel trailer with it when we go to shows, although it's a bit down on horses at 130bhp...

After having the parts on the shelf for 3 years, and having got our son's D2 so fitted, I made a start this afternoon to taking it all off the car. The first job was to get the new belt sorted out ready for going on, and I lose two idlers as well, so the belt is quite short (no aircon, no ACE)...

Not sure why we still call it the MOT (Ministry Of Transport) test, they haven't been called that for 20+ years, but anyway the Discovery went in this morning for its annual test and passed with no advisories. We had an early slot at 8.00, dropped it in, had a chat with Mr Young the tester...

Just got back last night from a 2000-mile round trip with our two D2 V8's, mine towing the big 6-wheel drawbar turntable trailer and our son's pulling the conventional 2-axle trailer. We took two engines to the Nuenen stationary engine show, then left both engines locally and drove down through...

No2 son is going through a 'repair or bust' phase on his D2, the engine had a rear main leak like the Torrey Canyon (1967 marine accident - shows my age!) and he had a knock from the Watts linkage plus airbag issues. In the end he took it off the road and we have been doing bits on it whenever...

I've noticed that the url of the current thread you are looking at does not show on Discoweb like it does on other Vbulletin forums, is this by design or am I missing something? All I get for almost all threads is: http://www.discoweb.org/ On other sites I get the thread number following. Peter

Our business is designing and making industrial battery chargers, and we recently had a call from the Corran Ferry near Fort William in Scotland, to go up and have a look at the chargers on the ferry. We supplied these new in 2000, and apart from any early call just after commissioning, they...

Something that MIGHT be useful: If you take the headlining out, there is a single black earth (ground) wire that goes to the front interior light mounting frame, NOT the light itself. If you put the lining back up without connecting the earth (ground) the light will not operate manually. The...

Happy New Year! :patriot: I had a deluge in the Discovery recently, and with almost non-stop rain I haven't been able to get a look at it, but today was ideal, so up the stepladder I go. The roof has been damaged by what I assume is a piece of debris or a branch falling on the glass on one...

As we go into Xmas Eve evening, I'd like to wish all fellow Discovery owners a Happy Xmas and a Prosperous New Year. Thanks for all the chat and verbal exchanges, it's been fun! It's our Wedding Anniversary today, so a bit more special for us. Peter