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Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
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the saying,''a series landrover will take you anywhere'', is true,but only if its maintained,and well looked after!
It might even take you back again.....
Unfortunate noise from top-end
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It might even take you back again.....
dominicbeesley
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Aye, I do a good few long trips in the Landy but I do give it a good check for levels, grease, etc pretty regularly or it would break. Not like my modern (Mazda) car. That's run with the gearbox holding no more than a wetting of oil for the last 30,000 miles and the bugger still won't die!
No doubt I'll come a cropper at some point and the engine or gearbox will drop to bits. Probably on both motors within a few days of each other!
No doubt I'll come a cropper at some point and the engine or gearbox will drop to bits. Probably on both motors within a few days of each other!
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Now then, I just spotted this in the bottom of one of the core plugs in the head...any ideas what it could be? It could have been in there for some time hidden by oil.
Its got fairly sharp edges and looks like its been rattling around in something....and sheared off I don't recognise it but the hole in the middle is about the same size as a valve stem...there's a few bits of swarf hanging off the inner circumference
Its got fairly sharp edges and looks like its been rattling around in something....and sheared off I don't recognise it but the hole in the middle is about the same size as a valve stem...there's a few bits of swarf hanging off the inner circumference
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nrgserv
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injector crush washer at a guess
Looks like one to me too!
Must have dropped through when the injectors had been removed whilst the rocker cover was off
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jamesmartin
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i dont think it is put cant say what it is
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would agree with you on first pic, but second, with finger there for size comparison and the profile of face, does look like crush washer.
first pic kinda looks like a sheared off valve spring cap initially
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or a press stud or cuff link thing from someones coat!
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jamesmartin
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true will be interesting to find out what it is ,the first thought with 1st pic was the rubber stripped off a seal
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Cheers lads,
If its an injector washer then I've no idea where it's come from - I've not been near any diseasels for a while.
I'll check all the valve spring caps - is that likely?
I can't believe that I'd drop something in like that I'm pretty careful around the engine and I'm sure it would have been spotted if the head had come with an extra bit!
I suppose it could have flow across the garage from the grinding bench but that's a good distance away...
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If its an injector washer then I've no idea where it's come from - I've not been near any diseasels for a while.
I'll check all the valve spring caps - is that likely?
I can't believe that I'd drop something in like that I'm pretty careful around the engine and I'm sure it would have been spotted if the head had come with an extra bit!
I suppose it could have flow across the garage from the grinding bench but that's a good distance away...
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Had a look at the valve spring caps and they're all good...a mystery
