Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
Crank has broke
Well it seems the crank has broke in my disco hse should I get rid or wait for an engine to turn up must be my luck as the van cracked a piston the other month talk about bad luck
13th Jul 2018 7:31 pm
Smnspark
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
I’m going to scrap the old beast so will try on EBay as spares or repairs any suggestions on what to put it up for or may be any of you folks are interested
15th Jul 2018 8:27 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
You could join The Strippers’ Club, prob the best way to get most back. If you’ve got time, space and energy.
15th Jul 2018 8:34 am
sputnixb51
Member Since: 23 Apr 2013
Location: Morayshire
Posts: 833
Disco Mikey has a good engine for sale.
15th Jul 2018 8:42 am
WW88
Member Since: 19 Aug 2017
Location: Northants
Posts: 250
What was the mileage at failure? Did it just cut out? Or sound horrendous?
Either way, such a shame!
15th Jul 2018 10:03 am
Smnspark
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
It’s done 160,000 all was running fine just had all new discs and pads all round just pulled away and then a clanking crunching sound no power but it was still running but very noisy took it to the guys who service it they said there is movement on the crank which indicates it’s broke
15th Jul 2018 10:28 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
Similar mileage to mine, she drove her last a year ago at 166k miles.
Sounded pretty horrendous.
15th Jul 2018 10:31 am
Smnspark
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
Sounds about right what did you do with yours
15th Jul 2018 11:23 am
Smnspark
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
How do I get hold of disco mikey about engine
15th Jul 2018 11:26 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
She got scrapped. Unfortunately it happened in NW Norway on a road trip so more than the value of the car to get her home, then cost of putting an engine in her on top. Hence easy decision. I took my D4 up and stripped what I could in the time I had and the capacity I had in the D4, plus recover all my camping & personal kit.
PS This is what came back. 95% of the bits sold. A car scrapped on the drive or in the garage would yield a lot more, I just took the easy fruit as had time constraints and was totally knackered when I called it a day.
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15th Jul 2018 11:29 am
Heath_DA
Member Since: 05 Aug 2009
Location: Stockport
Posts: 667
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
Thank you desicions to make first thing got to get the beast back to mine next week
Then decide after that
15th Jul 2018 4:26 pm
Smnspark
Member Since: 25 Oct 2015
Location: East sussex
Posts: 21
Started to strip 6am early start
21st Jul 2018 6:17 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
Take your time, you’re not in a hurry. Any problem ask here, plenty of advice and experience. Or start a “I’m stripping a *********** now” and let peeps follow what you’re doing, if peeps can follow what you do then they’ll soon threw advice at you. Esp if you bung in lots of pics.
PS Just noticed your post count, best to PM Martin, the site owner, re what you’re going to do if selling here.
21st Jul 2018 6:26 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 13635
Smnspark wrote:
Started to strip 6am early start
Blimey mate , really sorry to hear that
Worrying as I didn’t realise the early 2.7 were also affected with cranks snapping
Hope ur at least able to recoup a decent amount back
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