To much like hard work :/

MOT passed now I have fixed it :) however my local ‘old skool’ garage is closing - the owner is retiring at end of March :(

Changed this O ring on the injector pump

Run her up to temp this morning and the housing has stayed dry so I am going to call that good. thanks to @meego for the tips

Well that was not to bad, fair bit of dismantling of surrounding bits but it all came off okay. Old O ring was flat and brittle. New viton one went in fine so hopefully the leak is stopped. It does feel quite sketchy though with that pump head wiggling about half out/in - I felt like I was mm...

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thats exactly how mine is leaking. Will give it a bash at the weekend!

Goddammit. Failed MoT leaking fuel injector pump. Appears to be between the head and the body so hopefully just the O ring. You can just see a drop on that lowest bit…. Have ordered a couple of new viton O rings, hopefully I won’t balls it up!

sorry for thread resurrection - just about to do this. ANy tips? How did you probe the cam thing? Is the cover the large nut thats in the middle of the head?

excellent, i need to do this so finding this measurement is superb thank you

I have a disco block in my 200tdi - everything else is defender, including the sump, and i fill it as per the defender specs - and have done for years. I fitted a defender dipstick to

Either replace the seals (that’s what I did) or get a small rubber window stop like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/fiXte-Rubber-Window-Furniture-Stopper and push it in between the two sliding panes in the middle

if you use Facebook there is a very active sankey, penman and brockhouse group - they are for sale in there very often what type you after and what you towing it with? there are 3 main types, designed for different eras of land rover vehicles

Nice one. Sketchy as feck but if it’s a bodge and it works, then it isn’t a bodge

Could you Jack the chassis and the engine as high as you can together. Then supper the engine from above with a pile of concrete blocks either side and a couple of heavy wooden beams or scaffold poles then lower the chassis down? Then you could push the chassis backwards out the way and get the...

Touché :D

or a Land Rover 90 :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAND-ROVER-WOLF-WMIK-TOP-SECOND-ALTERNATOR-300-tdi-24-volt-/125125439038?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Yes please!

Cool, my receipt ;) had the vin of the engine I removed and the vin of the engine I put in on it. The receipt for the engine had that vin on it. Made for a nice paper trail. I am sure it’s to do with theft and crime rather than any other reason. may insurance company didn’t want any proof at...