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After months of heavy towing of milled timber, logs and rubble my old Discovery started smoking.
I had hoped that a simple turbo replacement would cure it. Sadly another few days and the pressure build up in the coolant hoses signalled a head gasket issue, a misfire also suggested a dodgy injector.
I’m fortunate to have a pal nearby who breaks Td5s, his advice was to replace the engine completely. At 210,000 miles with an unknown history I thought it good advice.
I’ve bought a replacement engine with about half the mileage complete with a near new clutch and DMF for £550.
I set to removing it this morning. It wasn’t as daunting as I anticipated. There was just a hard to get to starter motor nut and an near impossible to get at bell housing bolt that had me and my brother scratching our heads
By dusk I had it out, I’ve got a little fettling to do but it should hopefully be running again by the weekend
My cars always need repairs in mid winter, hopefully this will mean some stressless summer motoring
When cars are 'fixable'.
Here’s what the old Discovery has been up to lately
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BtD03X1F0kg/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=oltppq424xdh
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Nice.
My One Ten has recently become very reluctant to start so I'm looking at changing the fuel filter then on to the injector leak off hoses.
Glow plugs are pretty new and getting power and the battery/starter is fine.
No pictures as it looks like a pile of guano.
Hedley, is it a Td5? I’d check the fuel pressure regulator and injector washers and seals. Those revived my Discovery’s starting no end
A td5 one ten ?
"One ten" is pre 89 iirc prior to becoming the defender 110 designate when the 200tdi came out
It's a retro fit 200 Tdi in an 1989 One Ten.
With the engine out it makes access to the steering box a lot easier, it has been weeping fluid from a seal for a while now. Whilst there I noticed the power steering pipes were crusty rusty. Again with the engine, radiator and intercooler out it made sense to replace them too.
A new clutch release bearing arrived this afternoon so hopefully I’ll get the engine back in tomorrow
I’m assuming you have the correct authorisation to tip all that rubble on your land then?
https://www.sepa.org.uk/regulations/waste/
I plan to use it for some garden landscaping. There’s nothing noxious in it.
What really annoyed me was the council appointed contractors who dumped rubble from a big conservation project in the cellars, then blocked up the doorways and walked off
I plan to use it for some garden landscaping. There’s nothing noxious in it.
How do you know? Had it tested? Even if it isn’t “noxious” it’s still waste and moving it is subject to the law.
Do you have a waste carriers registration, do you have the correct permit or exemption at the site you took it to?
If you don’t have the last two you’ve committed a criminal offence.
He’s got a Landrover. There’s probably far more noxious stuff leaking out of the bottom of it every day...
Lol.
As an aside SEPA disagrees with you....mcmoonter is not mcmoonter inc. he is mcmoonter the private individual moving his own property.
good work.
My Land Rover doing absolutely no graft whatsoever. It is a work vehicle though
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If you don’t have the last two you’ve committed a criminal offence.
Lawyer, are you?
Its Aliiiiive!
Nice job, must be satisfying that.
well done for keeping it running.
Nice one Mcmoonter, satisfying stuff.
Even if you are a planet raping monster, what with the woodburner, diesel 4x4 and now killer rubble.😂
I refitted the bonnet and took it for a test drive this afternoon, it runs well. I have never changed a Td5 engine before, working methodically it was pretty straightforward.
My pal has a garage which by chance had in a couple of Range Rovers, the tdv8 had suffered a coolant loss and a screaming water pump. A repair bill that will either be a blank cheque or a tow to the scrap yard. The other was a Range Rover sport with worn out suspension and lots of seized bolts. Again it’s fate hung in the balance
My old Td5 has largely been reliable and most importantly for me, diy mendable. It’s been a great workhorse and just as capable as a Defender for my needs
I'm still trying to trace my starting issue.
It's looking like a leak somewhere between the lift pump and tank and fuel is leaking back hence the cranking to get the system primed and it running fine once started.
I've bought a new lift pump so will fit that to at least rule it out. Next will be replacing the fuel pipe from the pump back to the tank and then finally, dropping the tank and replacing the metal pipe on top that looks a bit ropey.
Hedley, check all the fuel connections from the tank to the pump. I’ve had pinholes at the tank elbows which have e drawn just enough air to impede starting. They will only get worse
It’s looking like a leak somewhere between the lift pump and tank and fuel is leaking back hence the cranking to get the system primed and it running fine once started.
how reluctant ? even with a drained fuel system after a filter change and new fuel lines mines will start in a couple of turns of the engine and run lumpy for a 10 seconds or so till its self bled the system.
Also really doesnt need the glow plugs - i just do it out of courtesy for the engine but it will start no bother into the early minus numbers....
Yesterday it started within a couple of seconds. Today it was prob about 5 seconds of cranking before it started very lumpily.
If I turn the engine off and restart immediately it burst straight into life.
The other day I'd left it sat for a while and pumped it by hand on the lift pump and it took a long time before any fuel came out the filter housing bleed.
I've got a 300tdi pump ready to go in. Will need to sleeve the pipes as it's slightly different to my 200 pump set up set up but I've got the pipe here.
After that I will work my way back to the tank replacing the pipe and replace all of the pump to filter to FIP etc pipes and finally drop the tank and replace the old metal pipe on top.
It was the lift pump.
All sorted now and starting in under a second which is about normal for this 250K engine.
That's a result. Will probably be a bit nippier too.
Mines has decided to run incredibly cool as of today's think thermostats jammed open