Well today I did the job.
Not easy but not particularly hard, just fiddly and I needed to think a bit as to what to leave in place and what to remove.
I didn't touch the Air con pump as I couldn't see why I would need to. So that was good. I also left the drain pipe attached to the bottom of the rotor housing and just disconnected it from the sump. I managed to wriggle it out and back in again.
I also only disconnected the oil feed pipe to the turbo at the turbo, it was easily worked around still connected to the motor. Just took the turbo out.
Didn't disconnect any electrics, not even the batt.
I also took the opportunity to deal with the stripped thread in the rotor filter housing.
Biggest pita on reassembly was, as usual, the bolt holding the turbo shield to the back of the turbo. Only time I used bad language!
Alarming rattles on start up, which was a shame, if it was an old skool diesel or petrol I'd have known how to turn the engine over until the oil pressure light went off, but being all electrickeryed up I didn't dare do anything
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But it ran up OK and I left it running until the pipes got warm. Only way to get it proper hot will be to take it down the road, which I'll do tomoz.
I think the pump had been changed or fiddled with before cos when I took it off I noticed in one place there were two O rings where there should have been only one!
The pump bearings were well shot and and as usual when doing this I do wonder how the feckin thing was workin at all!
Could LR have made it more difficult to change the coolant pump?
Not much!
Anyway took about 5 hours with interruptions like rain and a gardener turning up to be "interviewed" i.e. she tried to make work for herself. Fair enough can't blame her. We compromised. At least she quoted an hourly rate.
So thanks again to all who have contributed to this thread with advice and links.
I'll only update if there is a problem or anything of interest.