vinnie mc

appologies for not seeing this maverick , no not even now mate but only because its something i do only when i get the time which as you can see isnt often but now we have some nice weather i want to crack on with it and again appoligies for not answering sooner

thanks for the great pics and commentary on your rebuild western its been a great reference point for me as i had no pics and its been that long since i took mine apart there was a chance id have put it back together upside down , but nearly there now , really only get on average a couple of hours a week on it so again thanks for taking the time

no i havent mate , unfortunately i dont get a lot of time to get on with it but once it is i will post how it went

ye i just ordered the new nuts western so hopefully they will be fine

i got the bearings from turners and they are advertised as pre finished but say they might need to be line bored but thankfully they were fine

Sorry for the delay but I have managed to pull the shells in and fitted the camshaft back in and all turns ok , I made a drawing of a tool (pictured) I wanted making to a friend who is a turner and thankfully it worked , well it's in and turning the real test will be when I run it , fingers crossed lol , but thanks for all the advice and I'll get back to putting it back together when I can

Hi all trying to press on when I can with my 200 tdi rebuild , I'm about to put pistons back in and have now read that I need to use new con rod nuts and bolts which I know aren't expensive but I haven't ordered which means down tools again till I can get some delivered the last bits I ordered took over a week to arrive so I'm thinking are new ones really necessary, thanks for any advice cheers vinnie

I'm cracking up now lads I've managed to get the cap back on after damaging 4 more which were snapping as I got so far down, in the pic you will see there was quite a bit of the seals sticking up but I think I'm just going to go with it , I did try to blow air through the seals with a compressor and can't feel anything blowing through but I do realise that's not an ideal test lol

T seals 4 vinnie 0 , cant believe ive trashed 4 t seals daft little things like this put me right back now having to wait to get more , the last time i had to fit any i had no bother only difference was they were cork ones and these ones today were like hard rubber , im almost tempted to use silicon as ive seen some people say its fine and works a treat , but ill wait as ive fashioned some guides out of some angle i have and ill see if i can get the cork type and hopefully get them in

ye thanks i will be checking everything before i put it all back together , but the pics i have put on of the crank and pistons are from the spare block i bought , theyre not from my engine , i have all my bits wrapped up ready to go back on once the new cam shells are back in

yes its strange why all of a sudden that last bearing moves backwards the other 3 are fine , its the original engine and has done 152,000 miles its a 94 L reg and must be one of the last original 11L engines and was a really great runner , but then the oil light started flickering and after doing all the obvious stuff i took the little inspection plate off the side of the block where you can see that last cam bearing , and there it was it had moved back about 10 mm , someone has suggested that the natural rotation of the cam means it will only ever have a force moving forward so its hard to fathom out how that bearing can move backwards , the only thing i think could happen is that the cam gets too much end float movement and maybe starts rebounding from that natural forward movement very slightly backwards . the pics i have put on are of a block i bought hoping to swap all my bits on and build up but as you can see it looks to me like its boiled the oil and stuck on to everything so i was wondering how to clean it if anyone has any suggestions cheers

ye ive looked at your rebuild pics quite often western theyll be great to use as a reference when i get round to putting my own back together ,and it looks absolutely amazing , but i do understand what your saying sigi-h that you couldnt afford to take too much off the shell faces when refitting the cam as once down to the copper lining the shell would be U/S wouldnt it , i thought the reason for having them fitted profesionaly was to ensure they are all square with each other in the journals . i did get in touch with a garage who said he could fit the shells but they would have to be pre sized as he cant line bore them , i only have a limited budget so are tempted to buy turners shells and let him fit them and hope its a nice fit , and whats most annoying is you can go through all this work and expense and once your back up and running whats to say that shell wont move again ,scary for me , but hey ho its a great forum and i love landys and with the members help im sure ill get there in the end cheers for now

really appreciate the responses lads but i will be letting a local expert change them for me as soon as i find one , i think that will be the best way forward without having the proper tool , but i will say i actually bought a block with cam and crank still in it with the intention of building that one up but once i got it home it wasnt as good as i thought it was , it actually looks like the oil has boiled inside and the whole internals looks like it has been plastic coated i have photos which i will try to upload just to see if anyone thinks the same , but i did strip that one down and the camshaft out of my original engine went in that block i bought and it turned freely , both 11l blocks

hi all finally got a chance to get the engine out of my defender 200 tdi and get it stripped down and it was as suspected the end cam bearing moving backwards causing the low oil pressure , i would really like to change the bearings myself but dont think i could manage it without the proper tools , or could i ? im all ears, but if not im looking for reccomendations in the teesside area of a workshop/garage that could do it for me if anyone has any ideas id really appreciate it thanks vinnie