Discovery 2 Off road 4WD 

Thanks mate, they're surprisingly capable! I've got loads more footage from a few more trips I just need to edit it together!

Thanks mate! I agree, I've tried to replace it with a landcruiser and now a D4 but I think ill just keep the D2 forever...

thank you mate appreciate it!

Thanks mate we had a lot of fun cheers for watching!

Amen to that Bro.

I like it more than range Rover

In case of offload discovery is G.O.A.T

They're good but I wouldn't go that far buddy lol

You could have broken your arm trying to stop the Disco leaning over!

They're 8 years old, the brand is hercules. I got them cheap 2nd hand to test the size out. It rubs a bit on the rear guards!

@@dustydisco2906 thank you very much

I agree, this was for demonstrative purposes only :D

Hi, no the centre muffler was removed and a straight pipe welded in. only the rear resonator remains. I used the diff lock a few times, and probably the whole time I was trying to get up that really steep, short rock climb. I try not to though, just so my mate in the blue disco isn't left behind :D

Hi mate they both have 2" lifts. the silver disco has old man emu, and the blue one I think has terrafirma

@@dustydisco2906 Do you guys have extended brake lines for the 2" lift? In mine it seems the front have heaps of length to flex but I feel like the rear would be too short now on full flex. Love the video

@@davidrobins343 Hi mate thanks for the comment. They are both running standard brake hoses in this video. the blue one now has extended hoses. I think the ABS sensor cables can be freed from their usual mounts to allow extra travel. hope that helps cheers.

CDL makes it a normal 4WD, TC works with the CDL to make it an incredibly capable 4WD :D On models not originally equipped with the CDL lever, and the CDL is engaged, will come up with an ABS fault which disables the traction control. The blue discovery was one, but since fitting the later model SLABS the CDL can be used in conjunction with the TC. Alternatively, you can cut just one wire that stops the older SLABS from disabling TC with the CDL engaged. Having rebuilt the blue discoveries transfer case I can confirm that running these off road with no CDL is terrible for the transfer case. Cheers

@@dustydisco2906 Thanks for the upload, great driving and filming! About the CDL, are you saying that it is actually harder on the disco to run it off-road without it? Or running it without the newer ECU is bad on the truck? Thanks if you could clarify

@@alifuatyuvali9912 Thanks Ali glad you enjoyed it. The differential in the transfer case has brass thrust washers that wear out quickly if the CDL is not engaged and there is a lot of wheel slip. The blue discovery spent the first 250 000KMS of its life without the CDL being engaged, and the thrust washers were worn paper thin. A little longer and the differential gears would be grinding into their own housing. The new SLABS allows the vehicles TC to remain in operation with the CDL engaged, and it performs fantastically! hope that clears it up , thank you!

​@@dustydisco2906 see mine was not updated and when I go into CDL I don't have an ABS fault only if I shut the engine off and back on while in CDL. But if I put it back to regular all-wheel drive before shutting the engine off there's no Three Amigos. So for future reference. How you can avoid that just don't turn it off in CDL in back on and if you do then take it out of CDL turn it back off again and back on and the Three Amigos will go away

Definitely will in the next few months! thanks!

Leave it!! CDL doesn’t avoid the TC to come in when necesary. It just works half the times as the car becomes a lot more capable. Try the same section with or without CDL and you’ll see the difference. With the cdl in(locked) the tc will act a bit or nothing depending on how hard the track is. Without it(unlocked) the TC will become crazy🤣. You’ll go up anyway, but with double the effort from the car… A good set of 32” or 33”, cdl and tc working will take you a lot of places. If you want to go hardcore, get lockers(even a 100% in thevrear and an ATB in te front) and hd shafts(ashcroft)… You’ll go anywhere at half the price of a Prado with a car the same size… Cheers!!

Thank you very much!!!

@@SuperKokoui. You’re wellcome. Enjoy it. It works really good even in std mode. Anyway, if you have the chance to, go for ATB in both axles or 100% in the rear and ATB in the front(unless you do extreme, so better both ones 100%). That way you will have reinforced diffs, which is the weakest point of the car. If you are smooth with the gas it can last forever with the stock half shafts and cv’s. Cheers. Enjoy it

I do not know where to start from I was thinkin fr Heavy Duty front halfshafts and CV joints. Now you make me thinking.

@@SuperKokoui. As I said before, if you don’t do extreme offroad you will not probably ever need HD cv joints and half shafts. In any case, that one would be the change or mod to do(maybe) after +2” susp lift, +30-40 mm spacers or rims(offset) and reinforcing the diffs(this is the real weakest poimt of the car). So +2” lift, spacers to compensate the lift(wider wheelbase to recover/increase stability), bumpers, winch and diff lockers or atb… After all these things you can maybe think about hd shafts and cv’s. But they’re not that weak. Cheers

Work smarter not harder ey? Standard diffs. 50mm lifts in both. The 18s are over 8 years old and according to the sidewalls are H/T tyres. They did feel very slippery, but I think there was too much pressure in them.

@@dustydisco2906 far out, did extremely well for H/T and high air pressure. Im a bit lazy, ill keep air pressure in the tyres and use the lockers over dropping tyre pressure.

@@dustydisco2906 drop down to 15-16 straight away. It’s what I run on my disco . I’ve been down as low as 8 without bead lockers . Just comforser mud tires with 285-76-16 on dynamic steelies

td5 is standard and manual, the V8 is standard and auto. Thanks.

The first place is in the Glasshouse mountains state forest in SE QLD, and the second spot is somewhere near Ormeau near the Gold Coast.

If you think an open center diff is better than the D1 already then, connect it, and be amazed. I put a CDL on my D2 and you can feel the difference driving off tarmac with it. Especially when it comes to climbing hills... I don't use CDL going downhill or round tight turns but on the undulating flat stuff, in ruts, or boggy mud, or the aforementioned climbing of hills, the CDL really helps so much and does lessen the load on the TC.

@@mikeb53 did you use an old mechanism from a 300 ,,or knock some thing up ie socket up through the console. the onlty thing im a little unsure of is the electrical side ie the cutting of the wire so the tc is not disengaged,,there are so many contradictory theories out there

@@billrand4138 If not for the massive improvement in off road performance, but for the sake of the brass thrust washers inside the differential of the transfer case I highly recommend fitting a CDL lever and doing the "wire mod" to allow your TC to function simultaneously with the CDL. I've linked the disco 2 CDL lever from Ashcroft and they have some information around re-enabling the TC with the CDL in www.ashcroft-transmissions.co.uk/miscellaneous/disco-ii-difflock/disco-ii-diff-lock.html I rebuilt both transfer cases on the discoveries in this video last year. The blue one had paper thin thrust washers because the CDL was previously never locked, and the diff was always turning. As you mentioned - there is a lot of misinformation out there surrounding the TC

@@dustydisco2906 so on an early one ie 2001 with the early ecu,,the wire mod shown in the ashcfroft link will work without having to switch off engage some thing switch on bla bla? an old 300 auto linkage still looks like a cheaper option lol

@@billrand4138 I would suggest cut the wire. As for what I used I used the kit that ashcroft sell. The only thing is you will need a replacement knob for the lever as the kit comes with a defender one for some reason.

Not disconnected, but it is fitted with ACE, which means the sway bars are hydraulic and they go completely limp, effectively acting like they have been disconnected. I'm sure though that they can only go so far before they stop.

Unsure exactly what year I know all the discovery 1 came with cdl and no traction control. also alot of the early discovery 2 came with a cdl but didn't have the gear stick hooked up if your not sure just look under the car where the difflock option would normally be. Plenty of info on RU-vid ect etc cheers from nz

@@tombowman4424 cheers from Australia.

@@Countrysideboy247 I own blue td5 in the video the series two 2001’s have cdl from factory just no shifter fitted in the cab they. 1999 D2 had cdl and year 2000 they didn’t have it back up my model. The face lift models from 2003-2004 have the shifter in the cab

@@tombowman4424. At least in europe, they kept the cdl inside the transfer case during the first years(99-2000), but without lever. They said “for testing purposes only”… They took it out in 2001-2002 as they wanted to relay only in TC… Could be some 2001 units built in 2000 with it… With the facelift, 2003-2004 they offered it as an extra in the higher spec models or on demand in the lower ones… Maybe in Oz they offered it in a different way as you guys use the cars offroad more than us here in europe. But any 99 model should have it anywhere in the world… Also, only rhe 2003-2004 with it as an extra came with the lever. The older ones, even the ones with it, came WITHOUT the lever, so you had to change it or add one or a button… Cheers

I've been convinvced since I bought it at 134000 kms that it would blow up soon, its at 180000 now!

@@dustydisco2906 awesome!

So you're saying that unless people want to fork out a grand or more for a locker theres no point?

You must own a ifs car or drive to the shops in back don’t need a locker all the time…

No problems can you just include a watermark that says "Daddy Brendo" on footage of the blue car?

@@dustydisco2906 Thank you, I will be sure to credit your channels as the source of the footage.

@@amateurtorque6709 No worries, no need to credit my channel but the owner of the blue car does insist that a watermark of "Daddy Brendo" (in a realistic size, doesnt have to be full frame) be placed over the video! Hope you understand.

@@dustydisco2906 absolutely, no problem.

@@dustydisco2906 Thank you for your contribution, here is the link to the compilation ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sv-g_Gdl_u4.html

Absolutely, that would be great. Be sure to leave the link or send it to me ill put it in this video description too. Cheers.

It does, most of the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a low socioeconomic area we don't regularly have full shoes