Freelander 1.8

jbooth · Jan 3, 2024

Hi you beautiful people, i’m new to the land rover scene so if you could bear with me. i bought a freelander 1 with the 1.8 petrol engine in it (i’ve heard about the problems and sort of know what im doing to an extent), and i think i may have messed up.

I changed the water pump and timed my engine up to the markings, but when i put the new belt and tensioner on, i believe the tensioner was faulty as it slipped and all of a sudden my engine sounded like a tractor.

i didn’t have it running for no longer than a second, is there any chance i would’ve gotten away with it? Thank you in advance

andyfreelandy · Jan 3, 2024

Well there's a question !!
Firstly welcome.
Secondly, always rotate the engine by hand after new belts go on. Then any problems show up.
How do you know it slipped?
Can you now see the alignment is out? By how much?

There is no easy way to say if you have bent a valve stem or worse. Photo of the 'new' timing position would help.

Best to change tensioner, I have never heard of one releasing, and retime then turn by hand and listen and feel carefully !!!

GrumpyGel · Jan 3, 2024

jbooth said:
Hi you beautiful people, i’m new to the land rover scene so if you could bear with me. i bought a freelander 1 with the 1.8 petrol engine in it (i’ve heard about the problems and sort of know what im doing to an extent), and i think i may have messed up.

I changed the water pump and timed my engine up to the markings, but when i put the new belt and tensioner on, i believe the tensioner was faulty as it slipped and all of a sudden my engine sounded like a tractor.

i didn’t have it running for no longer than a second, is there any chance i would’ve gotten away with it? Thank you in advance

Looks like you've f**ked it up mate.

Sorry for the technical description.

Its fine for the early diesels to sound like tractors, but not the petrols.

Dunno what goes on the K Series when valves and pistons collide. You may get away with some valves, when a mechanic at work did the same thing recently, it smashed the rocket arm jobbies to, so a replacement head might be in order - that wasn't a K Series - and I dunno how pistons in the K Series take to being whacked by valves.

Nodge68 · Jan 3, 2024

Unfortunately the cam timing only needs to be retarded for a few tenths of a second for the valves to contact the pistons, which will bend them.

You're best bet is to set the timing correctly, then do a compression test to see if any damage has been done, and to which cylinders.

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