Hello everyone. We finally figured what was causing the noise! The cylinder head gasket was faulty. One of the holes was not letting the oil through so the hydraulic tappets were not properly lubricated. We changed the gasket and this fixed the noise issue. From there we developed an...

Thank you Brown, we run the car on the fault code machine and it shows that everything is fine... The noise persists. Also checked the crankshaft pulley and its perfect. Grief!!!

Wow. I deeply appreciate your quick and insightful responses. :) A thousand apologies for my bad manners!!!!too much zeal on my part. My name is Mark from Nairobi Kenya. I am one year old into owning a disco td300 (we call her mammoth) which I have been lovingly fixing. I got her with a good...

Hello everyone. This is my first post on this great forum. My beloved TD5 had a leaking oil cooler which was replaced but on reassembly, the engine now has a knocking noise as can be heard on the link below. My mechanic has been trying to figure it out and I thought I could chip in by...