yeah just seen the price of those transfer boxes! unless second hand i got nooooooooo chance!! my best bet is make up an adapter shaft th connect to an lt230 or borg warner. i want to keep it low so a 1.4 or a 1.6 would be best.

standard v8 lt77. it was new not long ago but i dont expect it to last very long when the engine goes back in. it ate the old one fairly quick! eventually i plan to use a bmw box with either a landrover transfer box on the back or a milner remote box. auto would be easy as bmw used the same zf...

i suspect cam timing due to everything else being correct. i will investigate further with a protractor and see what i come up with. wont be today though but i will keep you posted. if it is out it may be possible to just jump a tooth on the chain and re-mark the sprocket for future reference...

i would mate but believe it or not the dog decided to try and eat the phone yesterday so at the moment havnt got one!

well this is what i am thinking as the only different thing is the cam. i replaced the sprockets and chain, lifters and rockers all with standard parts. the only thing i can think of is fitting a vernier pulley and dialing in the cam. however i dont want to spend any more money on this engine as...

Ok got it running after playing with some more oil, and altering the dizzy. It will run but only rev fairly freely if the timing is somewhere around 30-35 btdc. this is slightly excessive! if i set it back to 6 btdc it will still run but will blowback through the afm and rev very poorly. it is...

well tried the oil trick up through the pump but no luck definately not the lifters. swapped the dizzy for another one out of a runner, air flow meter, ecu, cap, arm, plugs and leads, basically all of my spares, nothing. It will attempt to fire as soon as i push the button but thats it, it then...

rebuilt mine a few years ago after it ran a big end bearing. i replaced with new: crank cam followers rings oil pump oil pump drive shaft shells These were the things that were most worn out the rest were still useable. i had rebuilt the head not that long before so it was still...

checked all timing again the other night and it is still spot on. checked it against my other v8 and its the same so theres no reason why it wont go. big spark and lots of fuel it should really. I am going to take the rocker covers off and turn it over to check if all the rockers are moving...

dont bother they are rubbish and very old hat. go 200tdi they are the best engine to use.

well i am not a novice by any means and have done many timing belts/chains and rebuilt engines and am definate the timing dots were together. not like a belt where you put it on after the sprockets you can get it wrong, sprockets were aligned with the chain on the bench then put on the engine...

done all that but struggles to get to 3000! something is fishy here!

when you first start the engine with a viscous fan it will spin with the engine for a short while. it will then stop and spin slowly and you should be able to stop it with a rolled up newspaper.(dont try your hand as a mate tried this too soon and almost lost a finger!) when the rad gets hot...

Quite!

standard hotwire with facet and sytec pumps. was fine before the change never had an issue with it!

it was on ebay and i think the seller was called qualitypart. it was cheap but like i said the packaging was crap and a couple of the corners were bent over.

sure its not had an engine conversion of some sort? they wont know if its a 300tdi engine or not!

Evening all, Put a new crane cam in my 3.9 yesterday. all went well, replaced chain and sprockets while i was there. Put it all together, timings marks perfect. Started it and it fired and ran for a while but then stopped and wont go at all anymore. Have checked everything twice as in dizzy...

mine seemed ok. seals are a bit **** but they work fine! the place i got mine from was shocking at packaging so look out!

used to run mine 80 veg/20 derv in the summer and 50/50 in the winter. no probs at all just a bit smelly!