200 TDi timing belts

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I went by the local LR dealer on the way home tonight and the nice man at the parts counter checked and said that there was only one belt for the 200TDi but that there were indeed two different installations.
200TDi in Defender has no idler and because the FIP installation differs from the unit in the Discovery the same belt fits - hence the different pics you can see that all claim to be 200TDi, but some are Defender with no idler and some are Disco with an idler.

So, it must be me then. I'll have to persevere and get the belt back on, tight or not. It just didn't seem right to me.

Thanks for the views and the suggestions.
 
Adz said:
Right... found a Disco 200...

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no ye ain't:rolleyes: :p :D
 
Was the 300 also identified by the extra oil filter above the exhaust that is a pain to change or was that even later?

regards

Dave
 
For anyone that may be interested - I used some plastic metal to fill up the broken bits of crank around the timing belt and crank pulley keyways and retimed the engine with a new belt and.....the bugger still smoked like a good un.
So, reasoning that the injection timing had to be retarded to get so much smoke, I timed the pump again (9.5mm drill in timing hole) and advanced the FIP pulley as far as it would go - about two teeth anti-clockwise.
Tightened everything again and, Hey Presto - it started and ran with very little smoke and once it had cleared all the previous ****e from the exhaust system, seemed to run very well.

So - it looks like the real reason for all the smoke was that the injection timing had slipped back by a tooth - how does that happen? The belt was plenty tight enough when I dismantled it.
 
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