The water came from the cooling system once the head gasket blew this ended up eventually flooding the engine essentially and and also filling the oil sump. I was going to check the timing anyway as it’ll be an easy job , if you notice the noise towards the end off the video the noise seems to...

pushrods , tappets and valves are all perfect. And no they didn’t touch the cambelt, I was also thinking the timing might be out. my theory behind this is the engine cylinders where flooded so when the car initially broke down it was probably trying to compress the water / coolant and can’t...

Yeah that was my thinking aswell , all the valves are okay I have already checked that

Hi guys , girls and others I have recently had the head gasket replaced , yesterday in fact and the compression of the engine is fine and starts first time. I’m getting white smoke out the exhaust and lack of power and general rough running along with a tapping sound at high rpm. my question...

Right this is going to be a long one , but I am new to defenders and any sort of car maintenance, I also want to take this time to say every thumbs up or wave from disco and defender owners is a great thing and in person the community is brilliant. I purchased the car/van last week it was...