Landowner

Thanks but it only shows 4 of the bolt positions, short ones I think go at the front and a couple down the sides but not sure which go where

Came to put my 200 tdi sump back on today, measured the depth of the boltholes for depth with a screwdriver so I didn't put long bolts in short holes. Got three bolt legths, some long and about 6 bor so that are short but two just a little longer than the other short ones. Anyway I'm not sure here the long bolts should go as it looks like one of the short ones should be going through the spacer but it dosen't . So to be sure where the different sizes go has anyone got a plan please I should have put them in order through a piece of car but just whizzed them out thinking that they would be all the same

Mine runs fine with little turbo assist around town, engine is only revving below 2000 most of the time and not pulling hard running at 30mph and below. Turbo boost would be very low most of the time but she pulls along beautiful. I drive most of the time on a light throttle so turbo not on full boost but she goes ok and keeps up with traffic so running without wouldn't be a problem, a friend has a series with a 200 and no turbo and it goes very well.

Try swapping pads round so thick one is where thin one was

Agreed but gearbox axles and transfer box oils are not an annual item , tappets when they are noisy and to check axle oils etc take minutes so your yearly or half yearly service in my case takes about half an hour. Add time for a brew and to check brakes and an hour or an hour and a half at most for service its not an inspection just service. If you do 20,000 on same engine oil and filters and without a check over and grease props then you are asking for trouble,

Oil and filters should be changed regardless of mileage I would say, I change mine twice a year, Autumn and spring.

I would guess at 20 quid max for oil, air and fuel filters 30 quid max for the oil One hour max to fit them and grease up props etc. So looking at 100 quid

A lot of technical stuff being spouted here I must say In the fifties and sixties there were very few diesel engines with a turbo charger in fact very few engines at all. The trucks of the late sixties with big diesels managed without one but they were getting bigger and expensive to run. European imports had a smaller engine with a turbo and slowly this idea was accepted and Rolls Royce, Leyland and Cummins soon followed with turbo motors, power was up and economy also better but no intercoolers yet. Gardner diesels did use a turbo on a 180 hp motor and took it up to 200 with hardly any blow at all and it was useless because they geared it up to be low revving at 60mph and ruined the pulling power. Other manufacturers also available at the time (disclaimer) Just talking about the big engines here, during the eighties trucks were still ungoverned and we were cruising the motorways at 65 to 100 mph, I had a truck running at 38 tons which would top 100mph (103) according to the rolling road man at Foden Sandbach, the tacho would go back to zero after 85mph and not re engage until the truck stopped and the needle relocated. Not much would catch it needless to say. Big Intercoolers arrived on large trucks somewhere in the late eighties as far as I can remember because of the need for lots of power. The reason power was needed was for economy, trucks were governed to 60mph ish and geared up so that they were low revving at that speed, less engine revolutions = less fuel being used. The intercoolers are massive and in front of the radiator, cooler air is more dense and so the cylinders are better filled and bigger bang, I would like to know how much more power an intercooler provides on a land rover engine, perhaps some one could blank theirs off and report back.

Pistons that are not moving will be siezed and need freeing off edit, didnt read it properly as usual, are they dual line calipers?

Thought it was steep, glad the tractor was strapped on well, Disco pulled up it no problem with no fan so no intercooling

I wasn't struggling up the hill, the Disco was pulling nicely in first gear at about two thousand revs on about half throttle, wouldn't have taken second and no point in revving the nuts off it, wouldn't have noticed extra power from intercooled air as it wouldn't have been that much. I doubt if the intercooler adds that much more power under normal urban driving anyway

No but I got some for the 90 when its finished, couldn't get blue though had to settle for green

I remember a couple of years ago pulling up the hill from Saltburn beach with a Fordson dexta on a trailer. All up weight was about four and a half tons and the 200tdi Disco was boosting all the way up even though revs were quite low and speed was about 10mph, that hill is at least 1 in ten maybe steeper with two hairpin bends on the way up, no way was the air boosting through the intercooler getting cooled

Problem is that heat rises so need to cool the air above you so it falls and the warm air goes up to be cooled

So it wont melt yer engine without an intercooler then

Couple of pigeons tied to a piece of string Or some sort of flue about 6 inches diameter and ten feet tall would draw the hot air out and cause air movement to cool it down

An intercooled 300 pulling a heavy trailer up a very steep incline at say 10mph on a hot day would have little or no advantage over a non intercooled 300 doing the same. Intercooler is only of any use when cold air is being rammed through it to cool the air coming from the turbo. Loss of power from split pipe is down to lack of boost and not cooling. I dont think the intercooler is much use at all unless the engine is working and the vehicle is travelling enough to ram the air through the intercooler, outside air passing through the vanes would be travelling much much more slowly than the air being rammed though by the turbo Just my thoughts and not anything scientific,

Well, any news, what was it in the end?

sounds like dry wheel bearings to me

Here's what I did http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=89244&hl=

Different ends at the pump if I remember right, I had to swap pipes when I went from 200 to 300 and vice versa

Pipes are different on 300, box the same not sure on pump

Post 45, 5th picture http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=86303&page=3

I cut a slot out of the wing to accommodate the pipe and edged it with that rubber trim with metal in it that goes round the doors. Cant find a photo but it was a good job and sealed the hole as well. I also cut a bit off the turbo outlet pipe so as it did not come out to the wing/turret as much.. worked well for me Must add that I used the disco gearbox which pushed the engine forward and the turbo pipe missed the turret

Just looked at buying 4 oil filters and they want £9.50 postage