gt40
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Freelander number 3. Another 2005 model. My brother has been helping me out a lot with my crazy Landrover hobby and we even did a team effort fixing one up a year ago. It seems he caught the disease from me and has been on the lookout for a fixer upper for himself.
So a month ago he found one. In very good nick but not starting due to a badly leaking high pressure pump. Trailered back to my place and got busy. It had receipts for two seperate repairs to the pump over the last year - one of which was only a month prior to the purchase. The owner had given up so sold it cheap.
Pump removed and pump heads dismantled. He found a torn O ring which was causing the leak. New O ring kit from Bosch fitted and it fired up and ran like a dream. For about 5 miles and then started leaking again.
One thing we had been unsure about was the positioning of the O ring and the plastic support ring. But fitted it as it came out as the previous repair had been done by an "expert". Big mistake. We should have learnt our lessons by now. After a lot of "RTFM" there it was in black and white. The two rings were fitted incorrectly. So pump out again and there was the same split O ring so a new bosch kit fitted. Correctly this time. Lucky the kit is very cheap.
Its been running fine since so lets hope that was the sole cause of the problem. But why was it replaced in the first place by the "expert"? Was it just one of those things or is there an underlying problem that may re-occur? Time will tell. Something to be aware of is there is a small metal "crush" ring for want of a better word, that has a slight cone shape and is very small so difficult to see. Make sure it goes in the right way. Once the pump is dismantled all of these bits I have been talking about do become obvious.
Needless to say my brother can do a high pressure pump job in his sleep now. He is the HP pump guru.............
So a month ago he found one. In very good nick but not starting due to a badly leaking high pressure pump. Trailered back to my place and got busy. It had receipts for two seperate repairs to the pump over the last year - one of which was only a month prior to the purchase. The owner had given up so sold it cheap.
Pump removed and pump heads dismantled. He found a torn O ring which was causing the leak. New O ring kit from Bosch fitted and it fired up and ran like a dream. For about 5 miles and then started leaking again.
One thing we had been unsure about was the positioning of the O ring and the plastic support ring. But fitted it as it came out as the previous repair had been done by an "expert". Big mistake. We should have learnt our lessons by now. After a lot of "RTFM" there it was in black and white. The two rings were fitted incorrectly. So pump out again and there was the same split O ring so a new bosch kit fitted. Correctly this time. Lucky the kit is very cheap.
Its been running fine since so lets hope that was the sole cause of the problem. But why was it replaced in the first place by the "expert"? Was it just one of those things or is there an underlying problem that may re-occur? Time will tell. Something to be aware of is there is a small metal "crush" ring for want of a better word, that has a slight cone shape and is very small so difficult to see. Make sure it goes in the right way. Once the pump is dismantled all of these bits I have been talking about do become obvious.
Needless to say my brother can do a high pressure pump job in his sleep now. He is the HP pump guru.............
