Recent content by gordan

You say such wonderful things about my wife...

I have a Discovery 2 that started it's life as a V8, but a previous owner retrofitted a 300tdi engine (mechanical throttle control). It runs fine, but the rev counter and temperature gauge don't work, presumably because the signal for those was coming via the ECU. The question I have is - does...

The limit is there to stop people from taking the **** and running a fleet of commercial vehicles on WVO without paying any fuel duty. But 2500 litres of fuel per year is a LOT. If you get an average of 30mpg (zan79's 300tdi Discovery and my P38 both get about 35mpg, but let's say it's 30mpg...

Are you getting plumes of steam out of the exhaust? Did you tighten up the header tank cap hard or just leave it only barely tight enough to ensure it doesn't unscrew itself from vibrations? Was the header tank pressurised when it overheated? If heater was blowing hot and then went cold, that...

You should be fine with just filling up the filter with clean diesel. It should start within 30 seconds. Regarding the FIP seals you just replaced - I take it you don't deem their failure in any way related to the combination of vegetable oil and nitrile rubber you so vehemently denied on the...

When you look at the radiator from the front, there is a small bleeding pipe in the top left. Take that off (carefully, the bit where it attaches on the radiator is a bit fragile). With it disconnected, pour coolant into the tank until you get a steady stream of coolant (and no bubbles) coming...

FIP == Fuel Injection Pump

The seals might be able to cope with the heat and pressure with regular diesel, but when you are adding vegetable oil to the mix it will accelerate the degradation the seals will suffer due to the vegetable oil.

Are you sure the seal set you have is nitrile rubber rather than viton? My seals start off as a 3mm sheet, and I cut them out using hole punches (54mm inner diameter, 75mm outer diameter). Note that in my use-case there are also elevated temperatures involved because the whole assembly is heated...

Actually - all of what I wrote comes purely from personal experience (about 100K miles of it on M51 and 300tdi engines). The nitrile rubber part has been tested on the seals between my fluid-fluid heat exchanger and the filter head. First time I fitted a seal I made myself there (the standard...

The header tank cap doesn't need to be on particularly tight - I keep mine just tight enough to ensure it won't unscrew itself from engine vibration, and I don't lose any coolant. If you are losing coolant, there are two things prone to failure on the P38 diesel: 1) Radiator - the plastic...

A few points need to be made here: 1) If your engine is a "common rail" type (I could be wrong, but I think all Freelanders are common rail) you cannot run on a mix containing more than maybe 10% vegetable oil in the summer. These are far too sensitive to fuel viscosity. 2) If your engine...

Seconded. Also check if there's brake fluid missing from the header tank under the bonnet. If there isn't much missing (i.e. it's above the min mark), it's probably OK. If it's empty, then that is much more concerning than a leaky axle.

Yeah, I had a 525tds once upon a time. Awesome car. Got written off by an uninsured driver. :( I keep pondering getting another one every once in a while, but can't really sensibly justify having yet another vehicle...

I could be wrong but ZF 4HP22 was rated for 220lbf, and 4HP24 for 240lbf. The latter, however, was much stronger due to a redesigned forward clutch (you can fit the 4HP24 innards into a 4HP22 if you want it cable rather than electronically controlled - it's what I have in the 7.6 litre V12 I...