Oil in ECU

[alfapat@dsl.pip]

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http://images.landrovernet.com/icons/icon1.gif Re: TD5 Oil in the Loom
I am resurrecting this thread as I have a Disco td5 '51 plate with not only oil in the loom but in the Ecu as well and only discovered when I was going to send it to l/r for a remap/chip.
Does anyone had this on this age of model and were they successful in a warranty claim. I take it , from this thread that L/R did change these looms up to a certain date although this is not really clear!
Can anyone help please those that are in the know?
I am facing a new ECU and two looms!:(

[andymach23]

Hi

I would be careful about replacing both looms if you are unable to do it under warrenty. The dealer will often look to replace the loom that the injector loom attaches to. That costs about £500 quid I think. The injector loom is about £35 and is easy to fit. Once a new one is installed you could keep cleaning the red ECU plug a couple of times until the residual oil has stopped draining out of the engine loom. It's the 2 blue 'O' rings on the part of the loom exiting the head that fail.

Maybe you know all this already if you've done some research:)

If you look at this web site...

http://www.discovery2.co.uk/Injector_harness.html it gives an excellent step by step on the injector harness replcement and also shows taking off the ECU cover and cleaning out oil that had entered.

You may get lucky and just need to do your injector harness (£35) and spray the ECU internals with some electrical contact cleaner (£3.50 Maplins).

Is Land Rover able to remap the car? I didn't know that they could do this!

Cheers

Andy

[andymach23]

Here's a thread running on the Defender forum about the topic...

http://forum.landrovernet.com/showthread.php?t=65352

[andymach23]

Here's a thread running on the Defender forum about the topic...

http://forum.landrovernet.com/showthread.php?t=65352


I see you beat me to it. I just read the full thread and see that you've a post at the end of it. Looks like your inital post should have opened this link maybe? Some good info in here.

Good luck with your warranty claim!

Andy

[alfapat@dsl.pip]

Yes thats where the Ecu was going, they can do it online insitu depending on date, mine was out of date.
As far as I see it l/r recognized it was a problem , (oil contamination I mean in the harness affecting the plug to ecu) back in 2000 and was willing to replace the harness then under warranty, but says in a bulletin that if a customer complains of poor performance etc., then at their cost just clean the harness or replace . It seems to me that they still have a problem recognized and are turning their backs at helping?

I think I could do with some luck, wish I had kept my V8!
By the way thanks for the thread and info on changing the harness /cleaning etc.