Just to update this topic for posterity in case anyone reads this in future with similar issues.
After some heavy discussion with Bullevard, they finally agreed to test the full exhaust system by sending it to Roetfilter-Centrum who found that...
Pull the trigger and away you go, Parweld seem to make decent consumables and Super6 wire seems okay, though I am sure any wire will do the job just fine.
I did find the wire feed rollers on the works welder had gone rusty the other week, I did...
I think you will find late td5 are worth more than early d3, though even td5 prices are dropping.
Buying any old land rover is the cheap bit, running them is another matter.
Interesting, if anything our pump gear needs to go forward.
I notice the 300tdi has bushes in the bracket hole the 200tdi has a fixed bracket.
I bolted the pump to the timing case and left the bracket loose, tensioned the belt up and then did the...
I have tried three different timing cases and they all fit and measure up the same, injection pump gear is not quite in alignment, I can't see they all can be wrong.
Injection pump is newly rebuilt but can't really see how it could be wrong...
The thinner the metal the harder it can be to weld, downside is the thicker it is the harder it is to form shapes.
If you do not own a welder yet do some research first.
3mm will be way to thick though easier to weld, 2mm will do the job nicely, you just want plain old 2mm steel sheet offcuts, how it ended up at 2mm does not make any difference to what you need it for, harder to cut out rust and plate the hole...
Think there is a floating bracket that goes into that slot that the two bolts screw into.
Think pt no is 332121, cannot find any so may have to make your own.
I did have to push it until the CEL blinked on me hahaha, i had to take off my contraption of the EVRY mod that time. im now currently facing the issue when I fitted a VNT where it chokes at some point and then runs normally in a few seconds then...