Project Discovery // Part 2 - Hunting for Rust 

This has to be one of the most underrated channels on RU-vid.

I think maybe I missed a bit in Episode one where there was a shared understanding developed of what the phrase "not a project" means.

I don't think there's ever been more people wishing, hoping (and quite possibly praying) for a car to have more rust, faults, and issues, then your discovery Geoff. We have all been sending rusty wishes your way. No need to thank us tho mate, it's honestly our pleasure. I mean it's literally the least we could do. 👍🤠

That's why they're called a "Discovery"... ...it's all about that "awaiting surprise" as you continually keep removing things!!

"I'd rather not break every piece of plastic in the vehicle"... my foreshadowing detector just exploded! 😆

Croker -v- Land Rover, Live!: the Stage Show. I’d buy tickets.

'quick fix', 'routine maintinance', 'easy job' and 'a few loose ends' are code in my house for "dad will be out in the garage for a few days"

Great video on your little project, can't wait to see what a Discovery bare shell looks like.🙂

Your adventures, if nothing else, are encouragement for those of us with less daunting issues on our own “not projects”.

Nice that the D1 rear seats are light, the D2 ones weigh absolute ton. It's cool seeing how different and also the same the D1/D2 are underneath

After the last episode I spent hours on Trademe looking at Land rovers, hurry up and get to the bit where it becomes an absolute nightmare before I make a huge mistake 🤣

Great vid thank you. As the owner of 3 D2s which will eventually bocome one I watch with special interest. None of mine have a skerrick of rust. I removed all the plastic bits on the transmission tunnel and just cut holes in some carpet for the shifter, range selector and handbrake. Removed all carpet aft of the front seats, ditched the (very heavy) reat seats. Gone is the headlining, replaced with sheets of adhesive sound deadener. The process is called Defenderisation of the Discovery.

Always entertaining. Although I was sure there was a ‘The Hunt for Rust……October’ coming…….I’ll get my coat.

Morning buddy. Love seeing how many people try and safe Land Rovers on RU-vid lol 😆 I’ll keep watching as this one will be very interesting too say the least 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Dude you are single handedly the funniest restoration channel on this site, from the videos to the comments I never fail to laugh. Thanks for the entertainment!

As an American, I run as far as I can from used Land Rovers, because only the French can make a worse car. Despite that, I just subscribed because this dude is awesome.

Love your video's fella! and the humour you inject to them..........

WooHoo!!! Looks like an awesome barrel of monkeys! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Would love to see an explanation and fix of were the water is coming from. Love the videos!!

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong that a complete rebuild won't put right ! Thanks for the entertaining video and I hope that the repairs don't prove ruinously expensive. Best wishes.

The dramatic music really painted the scene while you were wrestling the console!

Oh another project!! Excellent!

ES are a common spec, you got the less common (but still not rare) WS (Water Sport) spec… Seeing that fugly bull bar come off was cathartic!

It's no problem for you. Can't wait.

Oh god the flashbacks... WHY!!! 96 SD was the best Disco I had, miss it every day even with 249k miles. 120k mile 97 XD(yup, the special edition yellow one they only made 250 of) was the worst, they used crap steel in 97 and that thing was a rot monster.

Hunting for rust in a Land Rover is what the military calls "entering a target-rich environment."

Geoff, buddy...as a guy who clearly appreciates fine tools and quality I was alarmed and dismayed to see a 'dollar store special' razor knife in this video. We all know the pinnacle of razor knives is the Olfa L-1. It should be standard issue for every DIY'er and/or shade tree mechanic! My guy...you deserve better.

Built with the finest 1970s quality

Great update, Geoff! Roll on "the project" My D1 is still sitting with its covers on - I'm dreading lifting the carpets now... 😬 Jon T

Routine maintenance on a Disco that age is…. New boot floor New window seals Silicone up the sunroof New crossmember New outriggers 👍

you are literally my therapy

good luck with that Geoff we now all for good out come

Yeah! A new Project!

Great project!!!

great score on this one. i could really feel the dread hh

I feel for you. I've been repairing my Peugeot 205 for months now. But finally all the welding/painting is finished. For me it's the home stretch of interior back in... But for you it's just the begining.. A lot of simply looking at the rust and drinking tea and thinking 'oh gawd'. But slowly and surely it gets done!

The water ingress is possibly coming from the sunroofs as small pipes for water evacuation break off and then all the water comes over the headlining and into the cabin through the seatbelt holes. You need to take out the headliner and take sunroofs apart. There was a chap in the UK that was selling metal sunroof corners on fleaBay that mount instead a a plastic ones that I used on my Disco II.

Some of the best content on RU-vid. I’m not even into cars!🤷‍♂️

Looks like a fair bit of work ahead of you on the Discovery. Thankfully, we love watching that kind of thing :) I had noticed your second channel a couple of weeks ago, but only today binged the lot and caught up. Great fun, love the video style and humour. Looking forward to seeing both cars improving 👍

The handbrake on these old discos is hilarious, because it is mounted right after the gearbox it has quite a bit of "play" in it even if it's in gear (manual) or park (automatic). When my father had a disco he'd mess around engaging the handbrake at low speeds just because he enjoyed the feeling of the car bouncing around

Just found your channel! Love it and love this project really like these early discos.

Yes yes yes! Crocker, you show those dirty old Land Rovers who's boss.

Oh dear! Great, bring it on!

Great vid. Mine is a 1998 300TDi Trophy 3dr. Little bit of rust in the footwell lh , which I guess is caused by shedding some rust water out of a pump, which I transported from A to B, but unfortunately dropped off some of this "stored" water inside. The Disco caves are all soaked in Fluid Film and other stuff to prevent brown drag.

5:02 Good one, I enjoy your humor. ^^

I am at a very similar stage with a MK1 Discovery, reluctant to remove too many panels and trim as that will inevitably reveal vast quantities of rust that need to be dealt with. It was supposed to be a daily driver while I rebuilt my Defender, and you can guess how that is going.

Dude. Good luck! 🤣 My 1996 has no sunroofs and was dry and rust free in the back, but the front... not so much! The floor was pretty bad and already had a couple of patches on the floor and base of the B pillar. It lives outside, and cleary nose down, most of the time. Still... mine was $1600, and I only had to spend several hours and $50 to get the first WOF. Since then... it's probably only been a couple of thousand in parts 😀 I hate to give you more work... but take the front guards off and strip and replace the seam sealer that covers the join from the A pillar onto the inner quarter panel - its sucks up moisture, lifts off and causes rust. While you're at it, remove the scuttle cover (or at least the two ends) and the windscreen side trims. Then scrape off the seam sealer that covers the seam either side of the windscreen base and forward, horizontally, where the scuttle, inner quarter and upper A pillar all meet. Then, at the base of the wndscreen, either side, is a hole covered in sealer (which will have cracked and leaks into the front footwells). The hole is big enough for the tip of my little finger to get into. Where the outer, (visible) A pillar panel comes down, it overlaps in inner pillar panel (that fits behind the windscreen adhesive) the seam runs right down the front of the windscreen pillar, but has a protrusion with a square corner right near the base of the windscreen - the void is right behind that. It's almost a continous sealer path, where they used a crap sealer that didn't last. I can give some tips on getting the power back too. I reckon mine has double the power from when I got it... and "only" 18l/100kms now! ... but thats another novel... for another day 😀 Good luck. Our "types" need to stick together 🤓😎

Ha, looking forward to the 13 videos in the series! ❤️

Yay new project! 😁

might suggest doing the roof and window seals as a way of keeping water out (given the spring time rains we have here in oz) presumably you guys are in spring time now unless its all topsy turvey to the right of oz??

I really love these videos (watched them all), puts a smile on my face seeing it in my feed! No one edits a car resto like you do in such an entertaining way. Both horrifying and exciting at the same time 😂 keep it up Geoff!

Excellent video clips, titles, transitions, voice overs and music!!

I just purchased a 2001 disco 2 with 179k miles on the clock. I drove it home from purchasing it, parked it and immediately rebuilt the top end. Been 2 months of ownership and only driven it home. Seeing all that rust makes me feel better! I'm not the only one with disco problems right now hahah

Your videos gets better and better keep it up 🙃 cheers from Poland!

It IS A PROJECT, you know it was always going to go that way.

The whole handbreak & dash thing reminded me of my Dad and his Granada. My Dad was working on his Ford Granada one day, was rebuilding/upgrading the breaks. So he had taken them out. Small garage and all he put the wheels back on and wheeled the car into the driveway. He is halfway through rebuilding a pot and hears the Granada start up and launch out of the driveway and down the street.... so my dad grabbed a block of wood and strolled lesuirly down the street without a word. Clearly the kid did work out that the breaks were out when he went to slow to turn cos he killed the engine and bailed out while it was rolling still. My dad got in the car and started it back up, drove it back into the driveway and popped the door and stuck the wood behind the wheel to stop it rolling. Now he doesn't leave the keys in when his doing maintenance lol.

Always nice to see some good rust repairing. Makes me feel better about my own project 😁👍

I have a 94. Bought it years ago. I want my son and I to do this to it. We'll be watching. Good luck.

Whoa, another one and so soon??? YES.

Bro I think it was a huge mistake to move the rover stuff here, I just discovered this channel. I'm glad to have found the rover stuff again but I might never have seen the new episodes if I hadn't idly wondered about your channel and looked you up

"And in the episode 12 watch as I send of chassis for zink plating" 🤣🤣

When I bought my p38 Rover I swear I worked on that thing every single weekend for almost a year. But eventually it stopped having problems and now it's gone years (yes more than one) without any major issue despite having 215k miles. There is hope for this disco especially in your hands!

Compared to every discovery in the uk it’s excellent!

Even buying a brand new LR product is never a daily driver - it's always a project! Which is why I switched to Toyota years ago.

Kudos for getting Hans Zimmer to score this video

Ah the inexorable pull of a project!

Have to say I've never seen a disco 1 in the UK with as little rust as this. I'd consider it mint to be honest 😂

There's routine maintenance, and then there's Discovery routine maintenance the we're about to learn. Thanks for keeping this non-project honest.

We all knew that it would end up like this 😂. There‘s an eerie similarity to my Opel Frontera, which i bought for cheap to have a little fun car for offroading fun. Now it sits on jack stands for 12 months because the whole mechanic needs an overhaul, the body is welded (looked exactly like yours) and the new paintjob is already halfway through. So much for a quick and easy fix.

This satisfies my Discovery remodel lust as they are actually available in the states.

Your videos are always such a pleasure to watch ! Keep them coming please!!

My dad would have called you a glutton for punishment. I appreciate your efforts though! Keep up the good work.

I love your videos! And I love your tap and conversion charts! Thank you!

You're crazy! A glutton for punishment. I too have a Series Land Rover in the garage and a discovery v8 on the drive! What the hell have I done

Good someone decent to watch sorry to say this but pleased to see another project 😊

2:00 I used to use that makita angle grinder, swapped to the brushless version after seeing Urchfab test it. Night n Day, the brushless one is fantastic!

Definitely a project. Love your style!

Did I ever mention I fucking love this channel?

Looking forward to the next instalment

I hope you're going to make the distinction about rust that has developed overtime and the original rust provided by Land rover when it came from the factory

That project got plenty of opportunities to "deal with later". Omg, what a nightmare...

I'm quite excited for this serie. I really enjoy this videos and certainly I learn a lot about ! Keep with the good work mate ;)

Keep the content coming! It's fantastic

Peeling back the carpet is like opening a christmas present….. from your friend Mr Rust!

I love your storytelling

Great!

Just in time for Halloween!

Very good manual impact wrench you’ve got there 😂

Oh my god that doesn't half give me some nasty flashbacks! I do recall managing to get that "water" in my mouth and there is no describing the sensation coupled with the horror of what just happened. Still... shame about the arse end but massive improvement at the front end!

Geoff: Oh god, this is going to cost so much time and money. Thousands of people watching: YAAAAYYY!!!!

"Argh I'm getting dirty Land Rover water all over me" 😂

Routine Maintenance,, :D , new "project" to follow along with, well up for that

Far better than my D1 at least yours has something that resembles a rear floor. Most of my rust has been caused by the bulkhead rusting at the wheel arch and all the water getting flung up off the tyres onto the sponge insulation.

Awesome, another daily driver/major project double bill!

A co-worker bought one of those new when they were introduced in the U.S. Not three months and it dropped a valve. It was fun to drive though...

great video as always...

Your pain is our pleasure, and we thank you :^)

I always like a drain hole in the footwell. ☺. Where is it getting in by the way?

I’m looking forward to this one Geoff. Make sure all your sills and seals are cleared out with no gunk in them, it will help as well as fixing the holes! Just think with all that water gone from the car you’ll have improved the mpg…

There is a special place in heaven for Land Rover owners…. Good luck.