BennehBoy's D2 adventure
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Bennehboy
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Car has been ace, breather problems have gone completely! Having pizza, not very French, in St mer eglise.
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well that seems to have sorted out the engine probs,not sure about the pizza though.
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Bennehboy
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Spoke too soon, still got probs, coolant level decreasing, and a little gunk in the breather. Suspect unrelated though, been doing lots of short trips and think its this causing the gunk. Suspect the ****part tophose to be the coolant problem. Going to get one of those silicon sets when I get home and see how it goes.
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have you got the viscous fan fitted to this engine?,where abouts does the needle sit on the temp gauge?
Bennehboy
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Yes the viscous is fitted, needle sits very slightly above midway, nano shows temp to be around 90c when running to temp. Very rarely hear the fan engage, usually after a run and sat at idle egt at junctions.
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ok,i just thought it might be over cooling the engine,sounds like the temp is spot on though.
Bennehboy
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Right, back in England.
1000 miles on the engine and it's running sweet as.
Boost issue is down to a slightly crushed inlet pipe on the intercooler, it's a serck (alive) IC and the ally is pretty thin. must have slightly deformed it when removing the IC to clean it, and the jubilee clip has done the rest of the damage. Need to figure out how to sort that out - tempted to have a mate tig on a new bit of thicker diameter piping.
Coolant loss is a bit odd, 500 mile drive to france (with 4 hr ferry pause) in middle and no loss, 2 weeks of stop start low mileage journeys and it dropped an inch on the header. 500 miles back and no loss?? Has got to be something to do with the crappy ****part tophose :/
1000 miles on the engine and it's running sweet as.
Boost issue is down to a slightly crushed inlet pipe on the intercooler, it's a serck (alive) IC and the ally is pretty thin. must have slightly deformed it when removing the IC to clean it, and the jubilee clip has done the rest of the damage. Need to figure out how to sort that out - tempted to have a mate tig on a new bit of thicker diameter piping.
Coolant loss is a bit odd, 500 mile drive to france (with 4 hr ferry pause) in middle and no loss, 2 weeks of stop start low mileage journeys and it dropped an inch on the header. 500 miles back and no loss?? Has got to be something to do with the crappy ****part tophose :/
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FEWS ebay shop is doing genuine TD5 top hose for £48.00.
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iirc. did you change your front driveshaft oil seals? how are they holding up?
only because of another thread on here about incorrect size of oil seals.
changed mine recently, and they`re leaking
only because of another thread on here about incorrect size of oil seals.
changed mine recently, and they`re leaking
Bennehboy
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iirc. did you change your front driveshaft oil seals? how are they holding up?
only because of another thread on here about incorrect size of oil seals.
changed mine recently, and they`re leaking
Hi, I changed my drivers side oil seal twice and it continued to leak. On a hunch I got hold of a spare driveshaft and replaced the existing one with that and the exact same brand of seal (bought them all in one batch so they were as near as identical as could be). The leak stopped after that.
My guess is that the metal shield that the seal sits against on the shaft was either out of position or just badly warn - there were quite visible wear marks on it.
Anyhow, job done.
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OK, so brief update...
Fixed the first coolant leak, the britpart tophose was drawing coolant out down the embedded fibres under capillary action - piece of crap.
Resulting in this:
I've swapped the old original back in and it's not leaking at all now.
Next leak to tackle is from where the PAS/Coolant pump mates with the engine block, I replaced the o-ring here during the rebuild but think it might have shifted or something. I'll order up a genuine part and put a small bead of RTV on to hold it in place once I get time to sort it.
Also, the boost pressure reduction is down to this:
The IC inlet pipe is crushed. I've made it a bit better by hammering a roll of lining paper in - I really need to get a snug fitting bit of steel and hammer that in as a sleeve to stop the jubilee clip from crushing it again. Still performance is better now.
Fixed the first coolant leak, the britpart tophose was drawing coolant out down the embedded fibres under capillary action - piece of crap.
Resulting in this:
I've swapped the old original back in and it's not leaking at all now.
Next leak to tackle is from where the PAS/Coolant pump mates with the engine block, I replaced the o-ring here during the rebuild but think it might have shifted or something. I'll order up a genuine part and put a small bead of RTV on to hold it in place once I get time to sort it.
Also, the boost pressure reduction is down to this:
The IC inlet pipe is crushed. I've made it a bit better by hammering a roll of lining paper in - I really need to get a snug fitting bit of steel and hammer that in as a sleeve to stop the jubilee clip from crushing it again. Still performance is better now.
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hose must be porus if threads are wicking or leak at hose clip
Bennehboy
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Yeah it's a complete piece of ****part - now in the bin.
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Ooh glad i read this. was about to fit a britpart top hose.
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Good thread, for other reasons I avoid ****part for anything unless it's something like a door card fastener
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Thinking of getting these.
DIRENZA LAND ROVER DISCOVERY 2 TD5 99+ SILICONE RADIATOR & OIL COOLER HOSE KIT | eBay
Any good!
DIRENZA LAND ROVER DISCOVERY 2 TD5 99+ SILICONE RADIATOR & OIL COOLER HOSE KIT | eBay
Any good!
Bennehboy
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Should be fine, they don't include the fuel cooler or oil cooler hoses though (oil cooler hose not required for 15P).
