1. julianf

    200 Tdi crank damper mount shot - what to do

    Apologies, I skim read. I had a 300 that chewed up the key on the crank sprocket, and my head was on that. You can run a cold engine for a while without the water pump. On the 200 does the pump come off with the timing chest cover? Even if it does, which I wasn't aware it did, you could...
  2. julianf

    101 tyres and wheel banding.

    They're about 38" or so, right? 16+11+11? Might fit, but probably even more unobtainable than the 255/100 xzls. Do you have a massive pile of them, or was it just a suggestion?
  3. julianf

    101 tyres and wheel banding.

    I had bar grips years ago - they were so grim on the road. I've had a bit of a look for 37" R15 and there's the Nankang that you mention, which are nice and cheap, and some Maxis, but not much else. ...and both are full on mud terrain. If I go down to 35" R15 the range increases - I mean I...
  4. julianf

    200 Tdi crank damper mount shot - what to do

    The damper isn't a mega precision item. Personally I would try and modify the key (weld a bit onto the key) to suit the worn crank, rather than the other way around.
  5. julianf

    1991 200TDI Fuel Filter Replacement Priming Necessary?

    Exactly as lynall says above. Just fill the filter before you screw it in (not with all the crud poured out of the old filter!) and start it up. If... You have no clean diesel to fill the new filter with, you need to mess about with the lift pump, but, if you can fill the filter, you just...
  6. julianf

    1996 Land Rover Discovery 300TDi Restoration

    He's already made his bed, by buying it. May as well advise him from here on in. There was a post on another forum from a chap thinking about buying a range rover classic. I've been doing my best to try and convince him not to. But the OPs money (at least the start of it) is spend now. He's...
  7. julianf

    1996 Land Rover Discovery 300TDi Restoration

    If its been run that day, but allowed to cool, does it then start in just the same way, or better? If "better" i would suggest it could be somthing as simple as injector leak offs. If they get holes in them you get air come in when its not running, and fuel drain back, so then it takes a fair...
  8. julianf

    101 tyres and wheel banding.

    The table i inserted was a clickable link to the comparison site. Usage - Not a great deal at all at present. Ive owned it 20+ years, and it was set up as a camper - but then we had a kid, and its been mostly been stationary since. Id like to re-do the camper bit of it this year, and the...
  9. julianf

    Island 4x4 website - broken?

    Island are still my go-to supplier. Ive not ordered for, probably 3 months now, but ive never stopped ordering from them. As i have said before, they are not always easy to get hold of, but they have never wronged me in all the years ive been buying stuff from them.
  10. julianf

    Disco 300tDI cutting out.

    It's on the back of the injection pump. There's a small chance it may have a cover over it but unlikely. Basically, look for any wires connecting to the injection pump. If they're going to a black disc thing on the top, with a multipin connector, carry on looking as it's not these ones. A...
  11. julianf

    200/300tdi air filter mount

    I'm pretty sure that, if you mount the air filter as per the 300, you will need to move the fuel filter off the bulkhead.
  12. julianf

    Bulkhead alignment issues.

    The brackets that go between the chassis and the, umm, foot well area - there's two versions with the elongated holes at different rotations. Have a look, and you'll see what I mean. I had to swap the brackets on my 94 (I assume the original brackets) to the other type and then elongate the...
  13. julianf

    101 tyres and wheel banding.

    I have xzl on the 101 currently. They've perished long before they have worn out. I currently have a set of 4 ok ones and a ropey spare, so I'm not rushing, but, looking to the future - I have a set of 5 15" six stud rims. 35" x 12.5" x r15 would be the tyre size id fit. There's a good...
  14. julianf

    What 110 Variant for a Camper/Overlander?

    Ps. I have a 300tdi 110 station wagon, with no intention of making it a camper. At time of purchase (2015) I could find td5s closer, and, often cheaper, than 300s in the same spec, but I specifically wanted the 300. I drove about 6 hours to collect the "spares or repairs" example that I found...
  15. julianf

    What 110 Variant for a Camper/Overlander?

    3 door, 300tdi As I understand it, the British military continued using the 300 as special order, after the civilian world had swapped over to the td5. Maybe the td5 would suit now? But the 300 certainly would. It's, basically, the default choice for reliability and ease of repair. People...
  16. julianf

    Symptoms of a split turbo to pump pipe on a 300tdi?

    It's going to be fuel pump setup. The pin on the bottom of the diaphragm is commonly called the "boost pin". That works against the "fuel metering pin" The boost pin is kind of vertical, and the fuel metering pin comes in perpendicular to it. The boost pin is an asymmetric cone shape. So...
  17. julianf

    Symptoms of a split turbo to pump pipe on a 300tdi?

    The pipe people are talking about "tells" the injection pump to dump in more fuel when on boost. Off boost it does nothing at all. It's all (more or less) at atmospheric. If you're problem is off bost, than it's not that pipe, irrespective of how stuffed that pipe may or may not be, it's...
  18. julianf

    Help needed! Defender 200tdi juddered and now won’t start again

    Just to be sure - With your helper in the car, cranking it over, with the injector lines off, you're not seeing any fuel out of the lines at all? (Bearing in mind that we are talking small pulses, not some gushing flow) And you have removed the plunger from the stop solenoid and put the...
  19. julianf

    Part Number

    As above, it's not the correct part. I don't know why, but the petrol, which I think is the part mentioned, is shorter. The 300 diesel one is longer. And more money. I'm guessing the change may be in the bore of the pipe (looking up the part numbers for the olive etc would clarify this) but...
  20. julianf

    Part Number

    Pipe Return Fuel Tank 90 (Britpart OEM) NRC9678 (NRC9678) = £34.99 Painfully expensive...