1. davek0974

    Help needed - black exhaust smoke, overheating, rattling hot engine, conking out

    You say the new oil was gone, where? Did it leak out? Did they fit the turbo oil pipes wrong and starve the new turbo of oil? It might explain why it got worse, it would only last minutes without oil, if it was burning it there would be clouds of grey smoke.
  2. davek0974

    Help needed - black exhaust smoke, overheating, rattling hot engine, conking out

    The black smoke getting worse when you press the go faster pedal sounds like no turbo boost, I had the same on my 300 when the turbo failed. The rattling could be many things
  3. davek0974

    Disco 1 breathers...

    Ok thanks. The crud that was blocking the back one was mostly rust so hopefully the gearbox ones will be clear as they don't get sprayed with crud like the back axle does.
  4. davek0974

    Disco 1 breathers...

    Ah that sounds familiar, can you get to the gearbox end without taking half the motor apart?
  5. davek0974

    Disco 1 breathers...

    Ok so we're going away on saturday so I thought I'd check why I have so much oil on my driveway :D back diff is dripping a bit, undo the filler plug and get a pffft of air pressure escaping :eek: so off with the breather and the banjo is full of crap and blocked. Sorted that out, front one...
  6. davek0974

    Please help bottom pulley

    Holy crap that's a mess. Get her timed up, get the belt off and that pulley. You have oil in there so the oil seal behind that pulley will be farked too, that will need doing too. With any luck the crank keyway will be ok under the pulley and new keys and pulleys will sort her out. If not...
  7. davek0974

    demolishing wheel bearings

    No, just the discs
  8. davek0974

    Please help bottom pulley

    the o-ring mentioned above is behind the timing belt pulley, make sure you get her timed up properly before pulling the belt off, get some timing pins off eBay. Never seen a pulley broke like that, surprising. Oil seal will deffo be shagged.
  9. davek0974

    Please help bottom pulley

    Err, take the pulley off? If the pulley was wobbling on the crankshaft then the seal in the front cover will be mullered, the keyway in the shaft might be buggered and the key almost certainly will be. Might want to go deeper and check the timing belt too. Make sure that bolt is done up...
  10. davek0974

    Crank pulley bolt,,,

    Finally got the job done, bloody weather. Took two hours in all, nice easy job after all as I only did the timing belt a year ago. She sounds much happier now, you could hear the old bearing grumbling over the usual engine noises! Tips... To get the fan pulley off, an air impact wrench is...
  11. davek0974

    Glow plugs.

    Are the plugs getting any power at all? The relay or fuse could have failed. Just a thought.
  12. davek0974

    Mot welding...

    Old girl failed the blasted mot, needs welding in two places. Near-side rear body mount, the plate that sits in the wheel arch at the bottom near the sill was blown where the mount is next to it. That was an easy fix and I have done that, cut out and patched with 1.2mm zintec sheet. The...
  13. davek0974

    burning smell at 95mph

    Thats another half hour of my life wasted. I thought "anything goes" was for **** taking and wind ups??
  14. davek0974

    burning smell at 95mph

    Maybe that as fans of discos,they don't like hearing of them having the bollocks thrashed off them or maybe because that even though they are not innocent angels, they don't go on public forums boasting at driving at stupid irresponsible speeds on public roads. Every driver has fractured a law...
  15. davek0974

    timing belt help please 300tdi

    No one has mentioned it yet, but that big bolt on the end of the crankshaft that holds the pulley on needs to be done up ridiculously tight, a standard socket wrench won't do it, needs a very long breaker bar and a method of locking the crankshaft. There are numerous threads on here about what...
  16. davek0974

    Crank pulley bolt,,,

    Thanks for that, I have a big breaker And a home made pulley locking tool so now it just depends on the weather :(
  17. davek0974

    Crank pulley bolt,,,

    Hi all, I need to change the front cover on my disco as the fan bearing on the existing one is about ready to fall apart:rolleyes: Is the crank pulley bolt a standard thread? I can't remember :o Hopefully if the rain holds off I'll get her done tomorrow. Thanks
  18. davek0974

    ABS fault code 4-14

    This one is better.... http://www.rswsolutions.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=267:discovery-i-abs-blink-code-procedure&catid=53:disco-i-abs-codes&Itemid=76
  19. davek0974

    ABS fault code 4-14

    LandRover : ABS ECU fault code identification
  20. davek0974

    Removing SRS / airbags, assuming it's stuffed..

    Pretty certain I read that they only have a life of 10 years so whether they will work or not in an 18 year old landy is a bit of a gamble. My srs lamp has never worked, don't know if the bags would deploy, can't be tested really. I treat her as a classic car without bags, mot guy has never...