2.5 td service tips!

Hi, any help gratefully received!!!
I am just about to attempt to service my 1987 110. Got all the filters and oil. A mate showed me where it should all go but not how!!!!
Any tips or pitfalls ? Doing oil, fuel and air filters. Any thing I should look fir?
Thanks

Fill ya new oil filter up with fresh oil then fit it

slicer said:

Hi, any help gratefully received!!!
I am just about to attempt to service my 1987 110. Got all the filters and oil. A mate showed me where it should all go but not how!!!!
Any tips or pitfalls ? Doing oil, fuel and air filters. Any thing I should look fir?
Thanks

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Make sure you've bought enough oil.

An oil and filter change uses almost 7 litres (6.85 litres, IIRC)

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Thanks for that, got a fuel filter too. Do I need to bleed off or just open and pop in?

slicer said:

Thanks for that, got a fuel filter too. Do I need to bleed off or just open and pop in?

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When I've changed my Fuel Filter, I've tightened the long central bolt to 'pull up' the filter element and seat the upper and lower seals.

Then, I loosen the long central bolt (no more than half a turn) and used the hand priming lever on the lift pump to pump Diesel up into the filter and push out the air.

Pinch-up the bolt when Diesel without bubbles starts coming out around the bolt.

I found that a plastic sandwich box or chinese takeaway container could be wedged under the filter to stop too much Diesel getting all over everywhere.

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Thanks for all the help. Tomorrow is D Day!!

Just done mine (200tdi) and took a load o' photies. Ah'll probably get 'round tae stickin' them up this weekend.. but not tonight!
If ye're fittingthe fuel filter, smear a wee bit o' fresh fuel 'round the rubber seals before fitting and make sure ye haven't left a seal from the old one behind.... same goes fur oil filter but smear fresh oil on seals instead.
Before ye drain anything, make sure ye can get the filler plugs off furst! Might be an idea to have some new copper washers as well incase the old ones are fecked!

slicer said:

Thanks for all the help. Tomorrow is D Day!!

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Your post has prompted me to re-read what I posted the other day.

I started to doubt what I'd posted (it's been a while since I've used or serviced my 110), so I checked in the workshop manual.


To bleed the air from the fuel filter - use this procedure, not the rubbish I posted above



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Same kinda idea wi' mine...

No wurds, just photies fur oil / filter change....

The 200Tdi type of fuel filter is a lot less messy to change than my type of fuel filter.

Mine (and the OP's) are the CAV 296 type, where the filter element is sandwiched between the filter head and the bowl at the bottom.

Diesel everywhere when you change that

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PaulMc said:

The 200Tdi type is a lot less messy to change than my type of filter.

Mine (and the OP's) are the CAV 296 type, where the filter element is sandwiched between the filter head and the bowl at the bottom.

Diesel everywhere when you change that

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Aye, it was just tae give an idea

My advice is get a difflock drain plug and hose,
makes oil changes in the future so easy and you dont get messy.
I keep a cople of empty oil containers in the shed, so that once i heatr the engine up i can attach the hose and drain into the old containers without any mess or burning myself,

Got one on my 300TDi and i had one on my TD engine as well,


I half fill my oil filter and smear the seals with oil before fitting,

Always bleed after the fuel filter change,

I disconnect the stop solenoid when i first start so that the engine reaches full oil pressure just using the starter, reconnect and start it up. that way you know there is plenty of oil in all of the right places,