Recent content by Llew

Grease monkeys properly cocked up the job. Didnt locate wood ruff key. Long and short of it wood ruff key pushed into oil seal at back of camshaft, CHip out of camshaft, bolt came undone again, this time though was held in place by timing belt cover so pushed camshaft back as it unscrewed...

Problem found, the camshaft bolt had come loose!!! explains knocking. but that was only after the head had been removed. now trying to source a 200tdi head gasket in Russia. best quote so far 10 days to get here, its not looking too good, visa runs out in 12

had rocker cover off looked alright but only did that as a quick check on the side of the road, so could look again. cant see much of big end bearings because of ladder frame. will try that before the mechanics start ripping things apart. the mechanics seemed to think it was no.1 pot that was...

in our j reg 110 diesel currently on our way to Mongolia, in deepest darkest Russia and 100km from Kurgan engine went. Loud knocking when running and sound like only three pots running properly. in a garage but mechanics arent the most proactive. Engine will be pulled tomorrow but time...

cooling fan burnt itself out. And Kenlowe fans arent very well known in Bulgaria. Got to Land Rover parts place and they were very helpful and ended up driving me all over Burgas trying to find a replacement fan. Ended up getting a fan from another type of vehicle got no idea which one, from...

Found out that the fan wasnt centred properly and blades were touching side of housing. Think this was the cause of drawing high current. When running now seems to be drawing about 13 amps still not sure if this is too high? THis may tie in with the alternator problem, I think that the...

Another query I have is with the kenlow fan setup. Thought vehicle was running hot, but when checked wiring to Kenlow fan noticed that fuse holder and spade terminal were melted, but 30amp fuse hadnt popped. Put a 20A fuse in but popped after a few minutes. Does any one know what should be the...

Checked it all before we left, Charge guage now reading back to normal levels and when running above idle at about 1000 - 1200 rpm voltage up at 13.6V. Still a worry why guage level dropped so low while running.

will give that a try as soon as we stop in Romania, hopefully will get away with that. thanks for all the help lew

vehicle crammed in hotel car park at moment we off to Romania tomorrow, the place we staying in has land rover distributor there and I will have space to get to everything. so will look at getting parts there. do you thinnk it will be the whole thing or get away with rectifier assembly? Got...

Checked with multimeter, got 12v before starting and at idle got 12.6v. Engine starts fine, hopefully it is just the guage that is reading incorrectly. couldnt check above idle as no one around to increase revs while checking with multimeter.

forgot to add it is a j reg 200tdi, and the auxilliaries I was refering to in the first thread was what I have running off the extra battery.

havent got as far as multimeter yet, will check it out tomorrow. but checked before we left and all was fine, guage was reading fine as well and when charged was showing well over the half mark. was getting well over 13v.

We are currently 2 weeks into our overland to Malaysia and are in Hungary for a few days. I think that my alternator is possibly on its way out and thinking I should replace before we start getting to very remote areas. The charge indication on the dash is no longer going above half way on the...

Was very tight with plastic sleeve, when did get it apart the sleeve remained in the female end with just a few bits stuck on the end of the male end. Will put it back with what left of sleeve.hopefully once all the old dry grease has been cleaned off it will assemble easier than getting apart...