Recent content by adam-d

needs help, misus is/was selling her td4. its had just about everything done, and she wants change so we put it up for sale, and its stood for two months, that's after someone vandalised it and broke front and rear screens, so now between 2k and 3200k it smokes to put the batmobile to shame...

excellent, sorted those, just gotta pick up front half of shaft as had the x bearing changed, then mount it all back on and line up the bearings right, ive also seen there seems to be a fill and drain plug on the rear diff, I thought they didn't have one, either way, if so ill be changing diff...

ok, putting new bearings on, how far home am I tapping them, as there is a little recess between where bearing sits and where washer sits am I guessing right I only tap it on upto the recess

ordered bearmach ones, so when mounted back to body, the bearing bracket needs to be square to the body, and both bearings paralell

gkn bripart supplyed

dropped prop off, rear bearing is noisy and rough, should this be right? only few months old

i have a diff bush on order, front one has gone, thuds going into 2nd ill swap that out when I sort the exhaust.

excellent, thank you. I guess if I have noise, one has gone already so, I would like good ones to replace. there are loads on ebay, I don't know which is good and what isn't, the ones on there were from britpart. along with the new vcu

the bearing bracket to body needs to be straight? I don't think mine is, didn't want to stress the rubber, what am lining it up against, the chasis?

i fitted them, matched them to the old one. tapped them in leaving a little space inbetween the dirt washer spacer thing, then when mounted to car tightened them up last to the body so they sat at a natural angle

ok, bell ringning noise I have narrowed to cat, I think its internally poorly another issue has arised thou. I have new vcu and gkn bearings, I have a feeling one or both bearings are making noise. is this possible. there not 4 months old.

not sure if it has done 500 miles since service. I don't think it is all the time, puff on startup little when idling, then a little heavyer each gearchange, I don't think it was doin it before service. im pretty sure it wasn't, and the breather was minging. ill check the oil level,. and the...

car has had a few good runs, still smoking a bit. vcu bearings were changed with vcu and only does it while moving

I have fitted new crankcase breather. oil, air filters. new oil. and new vcu 2004 td4 150k miles the issues im having is blue smoke emitted from exhaust not sure what it could be, I always think the worst I-e turbo seals. but im hoping something simple. I have a egr bypass new glow plugs and...

ordered vcu, bell automotive didn't wanna know. got ebay one. whats the difference in colours of diff bushes?