To be fair I'm basing the expectation of it pooling on seeing it in much bigger intercoolers, so maybe the 300's is just too tiny and doesn't have enough pressure drop across it to cause the effect, especially as it's sort of upside down compared to some. The insides of the combustion chamber...

Cylinder head gasket looks good, that is the right type also for older engines. Hone looks fine in the pics (as everyone said) All the injector nozzles apart from no.3 look a bit unhappy to me, not sure if it's just the image though. The oily wetness on the crowns, but lack of smoke while...

It's not an EDC pump, classic mechanical Bosch VE. Not looking at the MFU for the body electrics are you?

Might come with a small granny annex lease included in the price on the property shown ey?

Even less nimble weighed down by that knee snappingly heavy price tag, haha!

8.2.1 is spark ignition engines, 8.2.2 for diesels. They read differently and have different emissions tests. The egr / dpf worries many have don't really apply to older diesels as so many never had them to start with, so the average (not anal) mot'er will never check / know the difference -...

Any EU insurance policy will provide minimum level third party EU cover and are obligated to supply a green card if you ask. Most call center folk are clueless though I've found and will say "no" or "only 90 days" or various reasons, so usually worth asking for superiors and being stubborn, and...

It'll probs be worth swapping it for a quality old school fibre gasket if turns out you did put a MLS one on, I know they tend to not last well on old blocks. It probably is helping relieve it a fair amount, otherwise something would go bang be it a vent hose or gasket etc if there was enough...

All 300tdi's should have the later kit with the lipped crank sprocket and flat tensioner as far as i know, as it was a correction for an issue with early engines eating belts.

I had not noticed, been busy these last light evenings wasting my time on non landy projects! Right bugger about the head gasket, interesting about the oil pressure as well - no doubt somehow related? Did you use an MLS head gasket during the rebuild?

Sounds like it's all good then probably re vac leaks. If the cap stays level / only slight vibration (but not lifting) when undone it's fine. Down a glowplug port I was thinking for ease of insertion - one with a small light and manual focus so you can see and sharpen up the image. Maybe...

I bought a boreoscope for 6 quid a few weeks back, works with any smartphone with external camera capability!

To clarify, the 300tdi vac pump is a piston style pump not rotary vane like on a 200tdi or td5, and it wont cause much oil loss directly, but it is the indirect effect of it pressurizing the crankcase (if it fails in a certain way) which increases oil consumption - if it pulls a good vacuum on...

it always pushes into the crankcase as I understand it, it's more that it just pushes a lot more in if it's not pulling a vacuum properly

I haven't ever looked inside a vac pump but as I understand it is just a piston with a series of one way check valves which passes into the crankcase, can't remember if it had a spongey / split hose up to the booster or if one of its internal seals / valves had gone but it had started...

Not sure if you're still pursing your oil consumption Al but I saw a 300tdi the other day with a dodgy vac pump that was passing a lot of pressure into the crankcase and upsetting things, another straw to grasp at perhaps

You can have a quick google of how an automatic torque biasing (ATB) limited slip differential works for extra peace of mind about why both outputs spin the same way when they're unloaded

Been watching mike a few years as well now, most of his content is very much worth sharing. Fairly sure I picked up on chris higgins vids off of landyzone as well, so it helps to spread the word.

You wont cook the battery with bigger (especially only marginally bigger), output is relative on an alternator as well - best comparison is seeing what they put out at engine idle. Some of the cheap "120" amp alternators are just recon 100amp originals with a pulley swap, and the higher...

That part is deeply annoying.