Well, I just had to do it. Found out it looks like the PO had tried to remove the EGR. One of the bolts to the exhaust flange was rounded off inside, and the two yellow pipes had been unplugged and capped off, at the solenoids. Looks like he gave up and left the old EGR in situ. Had to use a set of reverse spiral bolt sockets to grip the rounded off nut, and it easily came out. All removed now.
Is it good practice to take the plugs off the solenoids? or just leave it connected up....Does it make a difference. Be nice to rip out all that redundant kit, and leave it tidied up. I made get the none EGR pipe, and do it properly. What happens to the pipe that goes to the air box, just rip it out ? Does it need blanking off at the spout on the airbox ?
Is it good practice to take the plugs off the solenoids? or just leave it connected up....Does it make a difference. Be nice to rip out all that redundant kit, and leave it tidied up. I made get the none EGR pipe, and do it properly. What happens to the pipe that goes to the air box, just rip it out ? Does it need blanking off at the spout on the airbox ?
brianconwy
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Finally getting to the end of the engine replacement. Connected up the last of the electrics and plumbing today. Filled with oil and coolant. The coolant poured straight out via an outlet/inlet at the bottom of the radiator. Checked and saw that I had connected the pipe from the fuel cooler to the upper one instead of the bottom one. Connected it to the bottom one but can't find anything to connect to the upper one. There doesn't seem to be anything on an EU3 TD5 engine. Filled it up with coolant again and after purging a few times it started up. Try again in daylight on Sunday if the weather is good. Not a great video. A lot of smoke came out first. Is that normal?
https://youtu.be/Ys4bK2PzFxs
https://youtu.be/Ys4bK2PzFxs
After a jolly around Hampshire hunting down parts and visiting every hydraulic hose specialist in Portsmouth to fix the oil cooler pipe problem I took it for an MOT and it passed 
Excellent - chuffed for you
Cheers, been a mission and a half but finally there with it.
Just gave it a bath and washed all the green algae off so we are not quite so eco anymore lol
biketeacherdave
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Doogendburgh
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I repaired some more leaking window seals on my Discovery 1. It spent the first part of it's life in southern California, so the window seals are all dried up
stuu
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brianconwy
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Drove it for a couple of miles for the first time in months after changing the engine. Temperature gauge not reached operating temp. but I can exchange temperature sensor if that persists. Seems smooth enough but time will tell. Fingers crossed.
Had to change my exide EA1000 battery because it went flat , again
so popped down to halfords and bought the yuasa YBX5019 with a 5 x year warranty , also got a trade card
100 Ah , 900 Cca
https://www.yuasa.co.uk/batteries/a...r-high-performance-smf-batteries/ybx5019.html
was £143 plus £15 fitting as I didn’t want to lift it , after discount £120 all in
took some Vdc reading so will see how this one does
had around a 50 miles drive , waited till it warmed up nicely then gave it an Italian tune up , ticked over lovely after and all I saw was a puff of smoke out the exhausts for a little bit then cleared up
went like **** off a shovel
so popped down to halfords and bought the yuasa YBX5019 with a 5 x year warranty , also got a trade card
100 Ah , 900 Cca
https://www.yuasa.co.uk/batteries/a...r-high-performance-smf-batteries/ybx5019.html
was £143 plus £15 fitting as I didn’t want to lift it , after discount £120 all in
took some Vdc reading so will see how this one does
had around a 50 miles drive , waited till it warmed up nicely then gave it an Italian tune up , ticked over lovely after and all I saw was a puff of smoke out the exhausts for a little bit then cleared up
went like **** off a shovel
