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I plan on keeping mine on as most of my disco's use is light off road and towing with high road mileage. Drove my mates disco which has slightly bigger tyres and no roll bars and it felt like a barge, I wouldn't have the confidence to slam the anchors on if something happened in front of me in a car like that. It's taken a full set of polybushes, brake and steering maintenance to get that confidence in mine - with the roll bars fitted and 4 new goodyear wrangler HP's. I drive like miss daisy but I know other people don't Had a few 'bloody hell!!!! screeeeeeeccchhhhh' moments in the country lanes round my village, mostly due to kiddies in little hatches and scooters but still I don't think I do enough off roading to warrant loosing the on road stability.

Afternoon all! Thanks for all the advice gents - finally just got round to taking the rocker cover off to have a look. The adjuster on number 8 tappet (closest to the bulkhead) had snapped, the bell shaped bottom of it that mates with the top of the push rod has literally snapped off. The push rod is now loose (as in I can freely wiggle it with one finger and pull it up/down with no resistance at all, is this to be expected with no pressure on it?). I'm unsure if this is the cause of the effect if you catch my meaning, the push rod is so loose it wouldn't surprise me if it was snapped. Anyone have any tricks of the trade for removing the bottom half of it if it has snapped? Cheers!

Ok cheers gents, I'll take the rocker off and check the rockers etc. Thing that makes me think it's bottom end is the loudness and clean-ness (if that makes sense) of the banging, it sounds like a .410 shotgun!

Alright gents, I've posted this at a couple of other sites - really desperate for any advice! Going round a round about on the way home last night all of a sudden the engine sounds like a drum kit. No sudden juddering or engine stalling it just starts making a loud (bloody loud) bang and looses power. Pull over, stop engine pop bonnet to have a quick check, no oil lost, oil light didn't come on, no pool of anything under it, no visible external damage, nought. So start it up, starts first time but still with the bloody horrible banging, ticks over really slow and un-even (about 500rpm). So figure its fecked and ring the AA etc. Anyone ever had to do a big end on a 300tdi? Rang me local indy this morning and the guy didn't want to quote for anything other than a couple of hours labour to see what's really happened (understandable). Do-able with the engine in? Just sump off job etc? Cheers lads.

They look bloody awful!