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Brilliant machines are Shapers, they only thing you can't make with them is money.

Ed China has done a Range Chassis by laser, have a look on YouTube.

My Makita ones done a good innings so far, must be 10 years old, and has cut through 2" diameter 316 stainless with no bother on many occasions.

Just pull the down pipe off and do a couple of miles with it like that. It won't harm anything.

You could also remove the plunger from the solenoid to rule that out entirely. You would have to stall it though, it wouldn't stop on the key.

To me, this has got to be something wrong in the injection pump, your Variable Geometry Turbo will create boost at lower RPM hence the issue clears sooner with it.

I'm not keeping up with this as well as I could, are you getting all the same issues if your running a Standard turbo, I'm working if the Vanes in the turbo are sticking when the engine is switched off due to bad adjustment off the actuator and there needing a bit of a shove to get them moving, then they only get stuck again when you switch the engine off.

The VE can have a couple of different devices fitted to the Timing Advance assembly on the pump, but they never used it on land rover spec pumps.

Theres no Cold start assistance fitted to any of the 200 or 300 pumps.

Is it an air related problem? Smoke suggests not enough air. Something often miss understood is that Boost pressure doesn't necessarily mean you've got enough volume of air.... If you have the boost pressure then your injection pump will fuel for it, but you might not have enough flow to actually ha e enough air to burn all that fuel.

If enough want them, I could machine a batch out of Ali, it would be much happier in the under bonnet enviroment than any 3D print.

The Puma heater is somewhat better than the heaters before it, but it doesnt fit in the same place.

Yes your just being thick. 😉 My down pipe on my 200TDi is clamped on with a Mikalor clamp which works a charm and is much nicer than the D clamp you speak of.

There's no non return valve that I'm aware of.

If the oil pressure issue from cold is on a 300TDi, I would suggest the timing case is worn around the oil pump. The design of the 300 oil pump is Gash at best.

Varta Batteries on my 110, the last one did 13 years of neglect. I use Tayna Batteries.

Fit what Land Rover fitted originally...

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I know a couple of pumps done by diesel bob as well, no issues to report from them.

To do it properly it's taken the whole pump apart, where it's leaking is basically the first bit with a seal on to go into the pump. Given the cleanliness required you want the pump off and on a bench. A few have stretched the ring over the housing into its groove by carefully pulling the rear housing out. Personally I don't see why you would get an O ring, knacker it like that during fitting and think it was agood idea.

My 110 has a Demand Engineering Exhaust on it, nothing bad to say about it.

I've worked a lathe with around a turn and a half of backlash in it and still got decent jobs from it.

Never really thought about it, as long as you always turn your handles in the correct direction for it, it doesn't cause a problem

That's not leaking from the "normal" place. You have a good chance of fixing that.

If you have time to worry about 0.2mm of backlash in a lathe you've got time to start another hobby..