LittlePablo
New Member
Hi all
this is my first post so please be gentle with me.
I have a 1998 L series 2.0DTi freelander with 140k on clock and still going strong - however...
Drove it to work as I have for the last year and a half no problems, come out from work and start it up to find no power steering, and no brakes, snapped ancillary belt I thought. Ancillary belt had come off the pulleys but had not snapped, pondering what to do I decided to drive the 17miles home and sort it out later. Later on I removed the plastic side panel to view the other pulleys and this is where it gets good - the crankshaft pulley complete with bolt still through it was sitting on the belly pan. I could see a keyway for a woodruff key to fit into the crankshaft but nothing like that on the pulley and besides that there was no sign of the key anywhere. So I slapped the pulley back on the end of the crankshaft stuck the car in reverse and tightened it back up as tight as I could manage so tight I actually turned the engine over a few times. Drove to work and back the next day no problems.
I told a friend my pulley had come off and he told me not to start the engine his face was a picture when I told him i'd driven it 17 miles home with the pulley off and 17 miles back to work having refitted the pulley.
What I really want to know is there any real harm in what i've done?
this is my first post so please be gentle with me.
I have a 1998 L series 2.0DTi freelander with 140k on clock and still going strong - however...
Drove it to work as I have for the last year and a half no problems, come out from work and start it up to find no power steering, and no brakes, snapped ancillary belt I thought. Ancillary belt had come off the pulleys but had not snapped, pondering what to do I decided to drive the 17miles home and sort it out later. Later on I removed the plastic side panel to view the other pulleys and this is where it gets good - the crankshaft pulley complete with bolt still through it was sitting on the belly pan. I could see a keyway for a woodruff key to fit into the crankshaft but nothing like that on the pulley and besides that there was no sign of the key anywhere. So I slapped the pulley back on the end of the crankshaft stuck the car in reverse and tightened it back up as tight as I could manage so tight I actually turned the engine over a few times. Drove to work and back the next day no problems.
I told a friend my pulley had come off and he told me not to start the engine his face was a picture when I told him i'd driven it 17 miles home with the pulley off and 17 miles back to work having refitted the pulley.
What I really want to know is there any real harm in what i've done?
