thirstybeast

Hi My air filter brackets came off the 200 tdi disco that the engine came out of and fitted to the lh wing on the bracket the coil was on

Hi Jules The hand brake on mine was done years ago as it did the clasic slam the door and off she rolls trick! I will ask my local dealer about rear window problems though as I have a suspicion the problem could be with the electrics not the glass.

Hi As above , a frosty morning so had the heated rear screen on. After about 2 miles a loud bang as the rear screen exploded, is this a regular freelander thing? The vehicle is about 9 years old.

Hi The engine will perform fine without an intercooler especialy if its low revs work or the cooler is likley to get packed with mud. A few people have been asking about this recently, I would say if you can fit an intercooler do it. If you cant it will still run well. I did some comparisons last year between my 200 disco with a cooler and my 200 engined 110 that dosn't have one. I put a thermo couple in the air intake manifold of each and got the following readings with outside air temp at 1 degreee C. Intercooled TDI intake manifold temp at Idle with engine warm 20 degrees. Intercooled TDI intake manifold temp at full revs with engine warm 40 degrees. non intercooled TDI intake manifold temp at idle with engine warm 56 degrees. non intercooled TDI intake manifold temp at full revs with engine warm 100 degrees. This pretty much shows the effect of an intercooler! That said my defender has yet to get a cooler fitted and pull's well fully laden on or off road with 33x12.5 R15 Hankook mud tyres.(maybe I should say pulls well for a TDI as a modern diesel will blow it away).

Power loss running without an cooler isnt that much, they are a relativley modern must have item. Most of the large machines I look after (Cat D8,Cat D6, Cat963, volvo A20) dont use an intercooler. I know they were designed without them while a TDI is meant to have them. My intake manifold temp is higher by about 30 degrees C than an inter cooled model (I checked) but the vehicle compares well to other TDI's I regularly drive. I like the idea of a small fan cooled system and may have a go at that.

The entire colum is very easy to change, I put off changing one for years then found it only took an hour or so.

a pic of my mounts to put a disco 200 tdi on to a V8 R380, the engine ends uo forward like a 300 TDI.

Hi Monster I fitted my 200 engine using discovery mounts, there should be pics on my write up on here some where. I cut the old brackets off the disco chassis but they would be simple to make. Im not sure how much vibration they cut down as I have V8 mounts on the gear box but they do make engine removal a simple opperation.

I have had the dubius pleasure of looking after an LDV Boxvan and a mini bus that had factory? 4x4 conversions, they are both still in use but we converted them to 2 wd. Bolts on the king pins were alway coming loose and the mini bus was set up so the 2nd row passangers could play with the transfer leaver while you were driving. The only part of the conversion I liked was the styr remote transfer box. This would be ideal for dropping any engine gear box combination into a defender.

I would say David is correct as my 62 2a was a HCB Angus Firefly when I got it in 1990. It had rear mounted pump, hose real and lots of lockers. sadly some one had beaten me to the siren!

Hello Clive I drove the 4 door Comando thats in the pic on your web to an incident last week. Its getting a bit long in the tooth now and has no pump capability, its used for rescue. It carrys cutting gear and 12000lb winch. The body works is still straight but its very coroded under the skin from filling the foam tank (foam goes in through a roof hatch). It still handles well at spead but when fully laden can be out stripped by an empty 130 TDI or a fully laden 110 fire fly with a carbed V8. thirst beast

My efforts since about 1985 WV Van 24 volt FFR Lightweight 24 Volt FFR Ligtweight Bedford Van 24 Volt FFR S111 109 2 1/4 litre diesel 110 2.5l Diesel 5 door 110 80 series 1 BMW Isetta Lada Niva Fiat Panda 4x4 2A firefly SWB shogun 200 TDI Disco 2L MPI disco Toyota Carina 300 TDI disco 200TDI disco V8 110 Sw (still got with above TDI eng fitted) think thats all!

Hi I fitted a 200 tdi onto an R380 a while ago, the bell housing from the R380(300 tdi) bolted to the 200tdi engine with no problems once a couple of dowels had been removed. I did the conversion from V8 so not the same as you but I ended up with the engine forward, this allowed a disco 200 exhaust down pipe to fit straight on to a 300 tdi inter and tail pipe. I cant see any insurmountable problems with what you plan.

Hi This type might be easiest to fit on old style wings

Hi has the mechanic checked the air filter, I saw one last summer with very simmilar symptoms in dusty conditions. All it needed was a new filter because of the locatoin of the intake so close to the front wheel(my V8 had no trouble in the same dust.

Hi I did this a couple of years ago when the prop failed on my company freelander, it felt just like a front wheel drive car but suffered from torque steer. Hitting a manhole cover when accelerating up a steep hill in the wet could make the steering pull sharpish! Ran it for the summer and put the repaired shaft on for the winter. Im pretty sure the coupling is seized on it by the way it scuffs when turning on gravel but havnt driven another to make a comparison.

Hi it depends where it snapped , I broke one a while ago flush with the head. Rather than remove the head to get the bits out I just bypassed it and pressed on with no problems. They normally start without any heat so 3 working is enough. Mine lasted a couple of years before the new owner finaly fixed it!

Hi I should have said it was a 1999 carbed 3.5 V8 defender (TD5 style chassis) so a bit diffrent from what you are doing but I guess some problems are the same, I wrote it up with pic's and put it on here a while ago. I am now used to changing gear a lot more often! and find that I now get 25mpg against 15ish on a long run with the v8. Its not as good offroad but the increase in range is huge. I have the v8 R380 box fitted with a 300tdi bell housing and a top hat bush in the fywheel to take up the diffrent shaft size. I havnt got around the intercooler fit yet, I run the v8 rad and pipe from turbo straight to manifold, it runs well, I have a mild tweek to the fueling, (adjusted the starwheel a bit and a slight turn of the diaphram). It puts a out a bit of smoke on hard exhelaration when cold but no smoke at full throttle. I plan to fit a pajero intercooler in front of the rad but havn,t done that yet. I did the conversion because of economics too as was burning a tank of fuel a day off road and hope I will now be able to get at least 2 days to a fill up.

Hi Monster I replaced my V8 with a200 TDI out of a disco a few months ago, at first I used a 200 disco down pipe onto the V8 exhaust and it had no problems with power.....but the vibration was terible. I now have a 200 down pipe to 300 center and rear, the 300 mounts made a huge diffrence to vibration. I would use that type of exhaust hangars for that reason , I guess you will have to chop every pipe to make it fit anyway. I havnt owned a lightweight for years now but still think they were the best thing Landrover made for looks and ability. The military used to run them on swamp tyres, extended mud wings all round and the exhaust up past the windscreen on the pasangers side, quite a beast.

Hi Claus an elegant solution to the turbo problem, I thought for a moment you were going to bin the intercooler as well. The steering box takes up a lot of space on a left hooker! regards Thirsty

I have just checked in the yard and our Leyland trucks have a diffrent selector setup, I think the box you have is off something like a Leyland Landmaster.(Long bonnet and gear stick straight up through the floor).

I will have a look at one tomorrow as we have a few old leyland trucks in the yard but the bell housing looks to shallow and the gear shift does not look right to me. Thirsty

Thanks I will check who makes the ones we use and who supplys them as they arnt up to the job, they dont seem hardened.

Jim What type of sleeves are you using and how many miles do they last? We find that if you bore past +20" or fit liners the engines dont get near the miles of the origional. Are the sleeves you use hardened like the origional bores? Very interested in this as my experiences with TDI's that need re bores has not been brilliant and I run a fair number of 10 - 12 year old 300 TDI's. Thirsty

Hi Dont know if this will help or just muddy the water! I have what was a 1999 (TD5 dash) V8, when I put a 200 TDI engine in the guage read cold all the time. I was told about the diffrent types of harness and resistors were mentioned. What I did was run a new wire from sender to guage and it worked as advertised. Its normall runing position is now dead center but it does re act clearly to thermostat opening or a hard slog up hill by moving up and down. Yes I know its meant to but before replacing the wire it was very stable so I think there is a resistor in there some where. thirsty