fender1234

the cover plate gasket is part no. FRC7998 i think

might be worth cleaning up the handbrake parts as they will be covered in oil, and i suppose you could check the output bearing from play etc

yes its fine on a 90

ok will order everything up, i may be better off putting this in the disco forum but has anyone got a diagram with part numbers for the front area of a disco 200di engine?

right then im going to change the timing belt aswell then anything else worth changing? crank seal, cam seal?

whats involved in cahnging this gasket as it looks like its timing belt, sprockets, and according to the manual injection pump, sounds like a lot of work to me.

heres a picture of where it apears to be coming from, it seems to be rising out of the the joint between the timing case and the engine.

bad news having bought the gsket today and putting it all together it still leaks and it would seem it is not leaking from that gasket. On top of the timing case below the thermostat housing the coolant seems to be coming up and leaking out, dont know if ive managed to explain this very well but i have no idea what gasket or seal i need to change to sort this one out.

ok cheers

does anyone know the part number for the gasket that joins the thermostat housing to the cylinder head? its a discovery 200tdi engine.

managed to get it all sorted this morning I deceided to use westerns idea of cutting it off but i managed to leave enough thread to get mole grips on it and undo. cheers for all the advice everyone

when i eventually get the thing off is there some sort of grease I can put on the new bolts to stop them seizing like this again?

cheers for the advice everyone i'll try out each idea tomorrow and let you know how i get on. Western i want to try and avoid cutting the bolt flush with the head because my stud extractor works by fitting over whatever is sticking out so i'd like to try and keep some of the bolt sticking out.

ive soaked it wd40, hit it in every direction and tryed levering it off it would seem the housing has welded itself to the bolts.

Having noticed a leak under the thermostat housing yesterday and the housing threads for the thermostat are gone so i decided to replace the gasket and the housing today as i had a spare, but it didnt quite go to plan after 2 of the bolt heads snapped the third just came out, so my new plan was to slide the housing off and put a stud extractor on the 2 bolts and take them out but the housing dosent want to slide off the bolts,ive managed to break the seal between the housing and the cylinder head but cant get it off. Any ideas? oh and my mot is on moday

you could fit some taller tires that would have similar effect and look good

managed to fix the old handbrake so no x brake for me yet. Ive fitted m12 bolts for the new steering stops but where they have to be adjusted so far out for the big tyres it means the side of the bolt is what hits the axle instead of the bolt head, has anyone else experianced this and is it a problem ie strength, bolt flexing/bending ? cheers

i had mine horizontal in the mud dash and it would jump and skip all the time so i moved to the top bit at an angle and it doesnt skip at all now. so i would say its better at an angle.

I fancy it but i cant decide is it really worth spending £200 on a handbrake?

maybe its x brake time

Finally got round to sorting it yesterday, by taking the hub off there was enough thread to weld a nut onto the thread and undo it from that side. Only thing i need to do now is the hand brake, but ive got the cable adjusted to its limit but the shoes dont move at all when i put the brake on is this likely to be a stretched cable of somthing to do with the expander unit? cheers

are we talking about salisbury axles here then? i didnt think you could do it on normal rover axles.

i didnt think you could put disc brake parts onto a drum brake case.

could you not use a hammer and chisel to undo the nut if your gonna bin it anyway?

ive had this so many times, i now go out to fix somthing expecting it to take hours then its a nice surprise if it doesnt