RobRover88
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G'day again ar077. Nice to hear you're keeping up with our culture. No doubt your RAAF pal has improved your beer-drinking skills! I hope no more of our RAAF E/A-18 Growlers burn up at Nellis. We can't afford to replace those nifty machines.
Your Ad-Blu useage is about the same as I hear from drivers of other (inferior) brands. It's a shame that
the World's diesel engineers cannot design a "clean-running" diesel without having to resort to spraying
liquid fertiliser into the exhaust. Lead-free gas contains nasty chemical additives to raise the octane rating. They are cancer-causing, but nobody seems to care about THEM!
My body won't allow me to get under my D4 to do oil changes, so I rely on my long-serving indy mechanic
to do whatever I need. He did the same with my previous 1995 TDi300 diesel Disco. His wife drives a Jeep
Grand Cherokee Hemi V8 so he also understands my Chrysler 300 diesel. I'm lucky to have him around.
I need to check with him re the crossover pipes in the cooling system to see if there's any similar connection with the LR V8 & SCV6 crossover problems that have been talked about in another thread on this forum. Have you looked into that situation with your D5 TDV6??
Your 'sliders look great on the D5. I looked into Lucky 8's, but found APT Offroad in Brisbane last year.
They build excellent protection gear for D4's so I got them to fit 'sliders, Trans/Transfer case, Air comp. & air-tank guards at the same time. He's frustrated that he can't design gear for the D5 due to the lack of a chassis. He's now sold his D5 having twisted it a couple of times. They are terrific offroad, but here there's
a lack of aftermarket protection gear available. I guess the aftermarket guys can't justify the design cost for such a small market. At least we can now get virtually everything for the D4, except side rails from the bullbar. Enjoy driving your NV & Utah deserts - I've covered a lot of ground there over the past 40 years.
Your Ad-Blu useage is about the same as I hear from drivers of other (inferior) brands. It's a shame that
the World's diesel engineers cannot design a "clean-running" diesel without having to resort to spraying
liquid fertiliser into the exhaust. Lead-free gas contains nasty chemical additives to raise the octane rating. They are cancer-causing, but nobody seems to care about THEM!
My body won't allow me to get under my D4 to do oil changes, so I rely on my long-serving indy mechanic
to do whatever I need. He did the same with my previous 1995 TDi300 diesel Disco. His wife drives a Jeep
Grand Cherokee Hemi V8 so he also understands my Chrysler 300 diesel. I'm lucky to have him around.
I need to check with him re the crossover pipes in the cooling system to see if there's any similar connection with the LR V8 & SCV6 crossover problems that have been talked about in another thread on this forum. Have you looked into that situation with your D5 TDV6??
Your 'sliders look great on the D5. I looked into Lucky 8's, but found APT Offroad in Brisbane last year.
They build excellent protection gear for D4's so I got them to fit 'sliders, Trans/Transfer case, Air comp. & air-tank guards at the same time. He's frustrated that he can't design gear for the D5 due to the lack of a chassis. He's now sold his D5 having twisted it a couple of times. They are terrific offroad, but here there's
a lack of aftermarket protection gear available. I guess the aftermarket guys can't justify the design cost for such a small market. At least we can now get virtually everything for the D4, except side rails from the bullbar. Enjoy driving your NV & Utah deserts - I've covered a lot of ground there over the past 40 years.
