Started to change the cambelt on the 200tdi Disco today. Yesterday I stripped the rad and intercooler out so as to make access easy and flush everything out whilst I was at it. Anyway started again this afternoon as it was nice in the sun.
Viscous fan came off ridiculously easy, fitted the spanner on and just a thump with me hand and it was loose, removed spanner and spun the fan off it's threads. Decided to take the V8 fan off as well seein as it was that easy and the 110 was standing alongside. The V8 took a litte more effort and I had to lock the pully in place with a tyre bar and give it a sharp tap with my big persueder (hammer)
Back to the Disco and next were all the bolts that hold the cam belt cover on. They must have been tightened by a gorilla as none of them would budge with the small socket set. Right yer buggers, I smacked them all several times on the head with the aforementioned persueder and then put the socket on and using a solid bar with a piece of tube on the end I put some weight on and smacked the end of the socket with the hammer.
Well, all came loose except three and I had to fire up the blowlamp and apply some heat. The first one came loose after a lot of heat and smacking but the second snapped off just where the threads end on the bolt. The third was rounded off after tryin a bit so I hammered an old small socket on and tried again....no good, not goin to move so I ground the head off with the angle grinder intending to maybe weld a big nut on the end later and try an shift it that way.
By this time I'm ****ed and had to go and lie down, took an hour and a half to recover so I packed up and went home.
So, cover still on at the moment, managed to prise the water pump off but think there are more bolts somewhere holding the cover on, maybe around the alternator , power steering pump area as it seems to be solid there. I'll have a look tomorrow after reading up on here which is what I should have done this morning before going to do the job.:doh:
On track though, as long as I get the cover off tomorrow then I can fit the belt and then start puttin it back on Thurs, that's the plan anyway.
Viscous fan came off ridiculously easy, fitted the spanner on and just a thump with me hand and it was loose, removed spanner and spun the fan off it's threads. Decided to take the V8 fan off as well seein as it was that easy and the 110 was standing alongside. The V8 took a litte more effort and I had to lock the pully in place with a tyre bar and give it a sharp tap with my big persueder (hammer)
Back to the Disco and next were all the bolts that hold the cam belt cover on. They must have been tightened by a gorilla as none of them would budge with the small socket set. Right yer buggers, I smacked them all several times on the head with the aforementioned persueder and then put the socket on and using a solid bar with a piece of tube on the end I put some weight on and smacked the end of the socket with the hammer.
Well, all came loose except three and I had to fire up the blowlamp and apply some heat. The first one came loose after a lot of heat and smacking but the second snapped off just where the threads end on the bolt. The third was rounded off after tryin a bit so I hammered an old small socket on and tried again....no good, not goin to move so I ground the head off with the angle grinder intending to maybe weld a big nut on the end later and try an shift it that way.
By this time I'm ****ed and had to go and lie down, took an hour and a half to recover so I packed up and went home.
So, cover still on at the moment, managed to prise the water pump off but think there are more bolts somewhere holding the cover on, maybe around the alternator , power steering pump area as it seems to be solid there. I'll have a look tomorrow after reading up on here which is what I should have done this morning before going to do the job.:doh:
On track though, as long as I get the cover off tomorrow then I can fit the belt and then start puttin it back on Thurs, that's the plan anyway.
