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you dont need any tools mate, just a good for sale board or home made sign will surfice, stick it in the window and keep your fingers crossed, you also might want to start praying around this point too !! A good selection of spanners from 6mm to 22mm a good socket set torx sockets good...

If you have had a engine swop done then the only earth i can think off that they would disconnect is the gearbox one as it is quite easy to miss when bolting the engine and gearbox back up it should be near the top of the gearbox, radiator side

It depends on how confident you are at lining up the timing marks really, the water pump is under the plastic cover near the crank shaft pully on the drivers side, remove the top part of the plastic cover, then go to the crank shaft pully and turn the crank clockwise until a little notch on the...

Yes mate the replacement engine came with a new clutch and water pump, so I bought a new uprated head gasket, new cam belt and tensioner, new headbolts but didn't bother with the stiffer oil rail

Had big end failure so got a replacement engine which was from a earlier distributor type, so I decided to make one engine out of the two by using the block of the donor engine and the head of my engine everything went fairly well and now im well happy with the result

Ok tomorrow I plan to fit a replacement engine in my freelander, the engine I have in the car now is the twin coil pack type, and the replacement engine I have is the earlier distributor type, I have searched the forum and the internet and there seems to be plenty of info about going from coil...

I got my replacement engine today for my poorly freelander, and i must say for the £ 200.00 i paid for it from a local breaker, i am very impressed as it still has all the ancillaries still on it, which means spare parts, it even has a recently fitted clutch on it, the only slight fault with it...

Well just got mine, swopped it for a BMW 523i when I got it, it had a engine knock which turned out to be no2 big end bearing had disintegrated, which I replaced last week but unfortunately the crank is out of round, luckily I have got a replacement engine for £200.00 which I will be fitting...

Hi to all, my name is dean and I've just joined the forum, because I swopped my 97 plate BMW 523i with no mot and a months road tax, for a 2001 1.8 freelander, with a months tax and 10 months mot, and unfortunately a engine knock that turned out to be a big end bearing, in which I replaced, last...