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The viscous coupling to the fan allows an amount of slip so that the fan can run slower than the engine. As the engine speeds up the fan will require more power to spin so the coupling will slip more and the fan will only go a little faster. When the coupling is cold it can slip quite freely and...

It could be quite dangerous trying to remove the pipe between the turbo and the intercooler with the turbo spinning full blast producing a couple of bar boost at massive flow rates and temperatures above 150 deg C. and if it’s a leaking injector or knackered rings then it will only slow the...

Disconnecting the wiring to the injectors won't do anything as the engine would be running on the oil from the turbo, leaking past the rings or on the fuel from a leaking injector. The whole problem here is the fuel can't be removed so you have to remove the oxygen to stop the engine (you...

Am I right in saying a discovery TD5 steering box will fit a discovery 200tdi as long as they are both right hand drive and four bolt?

If it’s a manual just stall it, stand on the break and release the clutch in a high gear. If its an auto then you have problems, I would think you need to starve the engine of air somehow, maybe blocking of the air into the filter with something fairly solid or letting off a CO2 fire...

As well as the turbo oil seals going a leaking injector or knackered piston rings could have caused your run away engine so it may be worth having a garage other than the one who fitted your engine have a look to confirm the cause of the damage. I would suspect there is a hell of a lot of...

There are lots of different VP37 pumps with different parameters which I suspect this number refers to not any code. If the pump was coded then either the new pump or the ecu would have to be recoded to match, there would only be one of each code so you couldn't find one the same and just fit...

I don’t think that the pump on the M51 is coded in any way to the ecu, it’s a VP37 which is fly by wire but a fairly simple analogue version. I have seen this engine fitted to a recovery truck, I can’t remember what it was but nothing which ever had any connection with that engine so it must...

I have a 200tdi, is the oil requirements for the LY77 the same as for R380? My gears seem to have got tighter since I got the car (its only been on the road a couple of weeks) and I am wondering if the last thing the last owner did was to fill the gearbox with the wrong oil.

That will be why I can’t find it, its not there! Cheers guys, I guess it’s just the relay which stops the motor if you stick your head in the window when it’s closing but it won’t come back down on its own? I will check the relay and the wiring, probably a corroded connector or something.

Thanks for the info but I would rather find the control box as just connecting the power directly will bypass the safety features and my kids will be I'm the back.

Where the glove box normally sits I have a blank panel and behind it is the heat exchanger and fans for the air conditioning. Basically there is a big grey plastic thing there which is not going to be easily removed and I cant see up the back of it to see if the electric windows control box is...

anyone?

Filtered WVO could be anything from rapeseed oil which stays quite liquid in cold temperatures to palm oil and animal fats from whatever was cooked in it so in these temperatures even with a mix of 50/50 with diesel you could have lumps of fat clogging up your fuel system. I believe the lift...

My rear electric windows anent working which I suspect due to the usual dry joint, I had a look for the controller but I have air con rather than a glove box and can’t see it. Can anyone tell me is it still in the same place as described in the how to just hidden by the air con or is it...

I could not say whether your second 300’s destruction was or wasn’t caused by the tuning done to it. The first one sounds like it was almost certainly caused by to much power but it also sounds like it had a lot more than a little tweak of the pump and waste gate actuator! Did you have a boost...

Stock boost is 1bar on a 300 tdi, 2 bar is way to much. I would think 1.2 bar is a safe maximum. Fitting an adjustable boost valve of the type with a ball and spring not a bleed valve can have an advantage in that it will open the wastegate more suddenly at the preset pressure keeping it...

I just did those two pipes and it only took a little over an hour. Disconnect and wangle out the old ones, you wil need to bend them a little near the offside end to get them out and un-clip the two cable looms. Lay the old pipes on the floor and make your new ones to match then they should...