Recent content by Scooby22

I wish that load was on my allotment.

I use it to potter down to my allotment, I may consider sorning over next winter but it will be a tight fit to keep it on my drive next to my XC90.

Just had my reminder in the post to renew my TD5 road tax, £415, shocking. Especially as it only does about 1 - 1.5k miles a year.

Auxiliary drive belt snapped on my TD5, then found the belt tensioner seized up, ordered new belt and tensioner, 30 minutes to find a socket to fit the recessed multi point star bolt in tensioner then just 5 minutes to remove and refit new tensioner and belt. Jobs a goodun. It only lasted 20...

Yes I use a garden spray, I took the spray head off and fitted a clear pipe after the valve, jobs a doddle now.

Try using the park switch from original motor on the new motor.

They may have been a significant amount of coolant left in the block

You can buy the socket to fit it from a landrover main dealer, last time I bought one it was £10, once you get the nut off bin it and put an ordinary wheel nut on, I replaced all mine with ordinary nuts, obtained on ebay. Those security nuts are a nightmare, the grooves wear and you can't get...

Is your battery fully charged, it needs to be to get a TD5 started especially in this cold weather, Also try resetting the inertia switch under the bonnet, mine tripped once and engine would not start, I pressed the reset button and it fired straight up.

Did you check for leaks in the EGR cooler.

I had a similar intermittent loss of power, turned out to be the fuel pump, always started up ok and ran fine but power loss came intermittently when driving.

Have you checked the clutch fluid level, may need topping up and bleeding, I had the same issue when I discovered a small wet patch on the floor under the clutch pedal, level was low due to a small slow leak, topping it up and bleeding sorted 1st and reverse selection and I changed the master...

Have you accidently knocked it into low range.

Could you be losing compression via injector seals or poor valve seats or stem seals.

Bleed the clutch slave cylinder. place a drip tray on floor under slave cylinder, then slacken off bleed nipple (just slacken it off do not open it) then put a piece of pipe on the bleed nipple that reaches up to the top of inner wing and into a container, remove the clutch fluid reservoir top...