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  1. Hi - managed to get the Freelander back together so would like to make a couple of comments 1) THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU LES !!! Brilliant article - I can wield a spanner, but I am no car mechanic. With these instructions I had the confidence to have a go. With all the horror stories I did not want to spend £1000 at a garage and find out the head was toast anyway. At least doing it myself the worst I would waste if the car was scrap was my own time. 2) My exhaust manifold bolts - 2 came out with the studs but 3 did not. I REALLY did not want to mess around under the car to loosen the manifold, so I wound the 3 studs out by fitting 2 nuts on them and undoing the inside one. It will jam up against the outside one and should then unwind the stud. Note that you will need to fit the stud back in later by using the same method - 2 nuts only screw the outside one in this time. Be really careful reinstalling - I am pretty sure I cross threaded one of them (and it was one of the ones that came out naturally with the stud). They were really hard to get in and the bottom ones are hard to even see - you are going by feel and they get tight almost immediately. Very hard to know if the angle is right or not 'cos the head is alloy so if you get the angle wrong then even a moderate force will cross thread. 3) I did manage to screw up the timing position by not fully understanding Les's instructions - I was 180 deg out on the sprockets. I had to work out what what to do by looking at the piston positions, the firing sequence from the distributor cap and what the valves did when I rotated the cams. My advice - take a clear photo of the timing sprockets before you take the belt off. If you dont move the crank it does not really matter what the position is as long as you put it back on in this position when assembling. A photo will avoid my mistake and confirm that you do it right. A picture is worth a thousand words. 4) Its not in this post, but is in one of Les's other posts - to torque up the timing sprockets you can lock the cams by putting a 24" spanner on a flat moulding on the cam shaft (which I presume is its purpose). You get more than enough leverage to torque the sprockets correctly. You can also use this method to get them off, but bashing a spanner with a hammer works too and may be more satisfying. 4) To stop the cams moving I bought a Cam locking tool by Draper. You can spend £30 on a professional tool (and would if you were going to do this a lot!) but mine cost £3 plus postage. The cams will not move even if you nudge them when fitting the belt - worth every penny. 5) My Landy had an automatic tensioner - it has a vaguely L shaped wire and an alloy "finger" with a notch in the centre of the end. An hour of googling got me instructions for it. Fit the timing belt around the sprockets as per Les's instructions - with the tensioner not installed. Then grow another arm 'cos you have to put the tensioner in position, make sure that the 10mm bolt to the right of the tensioner is in the middle of the L shaped wire (this wire needs to rest against this bolt from the top to set the tension) and fit the bolt through the middle of the tensioner to secure it. Its a tight fit - you really have to push the tensioner to the centre of the engine to get the securing bolt in its socket. No way could I fit the tensioner before the belt - I tried for an hour and the belt just doesnt have enough slack to go over the tensioner. To set the tension make sure the securing bolt is snug but not too tight then fit an allen key in the hole in the tensioner and apply tension to the belt. The wire will but up against the bolt, then as more pressure is applied the "finger" will come down towards the free end of the wire. The notch in the finger needs to align with the wire end. The tension is now set. Torque up the tensioner securing bolt to 25 Nm. Check the notch still lines up when you have rotated the crank and checked the timing sprockets. If it has moved then slacken the tensioner securing bolt and repeat tensioning. A video of all this can be found here but its by a guy with an engine on a bench ! Its wonderfully clear, but expect more cramped conditions ! P.S. the cam locking tool he uses is the one I bought. Thanks again Les !
  2. Hi - I have been following Les's instructions on replacing a Freelander 1 HG after failure. I am pretty positive I did not move the crank, but with the timing sprockets in the timing position and the head off, the pistons are NOT all level in the middle of the bore. The 2 outside ones are about an inch higher than the middle 2. Not sure where the crank is set as I have not taken off the lower timing cover. Is that OK or have I muffed it !! Also am I right in assuming that as long as I fit the inlet sprocket to the correct cam (the one at the back) I dont need to know where the locator pin was - it just goes in the "inlet" position ? The head is back from skimming (looks way better than it was ) so I aim to reassemble tomorrow - just the above 2 worries Cheers Les's instructions were brilliant. Great forum !
  3. Hi - I have been following Les's instructions on replacing a Freelander 1 HG after failure. I am pretty positive I did not move the crank, but with the timing sprockets in the timing position and the head off, the pistons are NOT all level in the middle of the bore. The 2 outside ones are about an inch higher than the middle 2. Is that OK or have I muffed it !! Also am I right in assuming that as long as I fit the inlet sprocket to the correct cam I dont need to know where the locator pin was - it just goes in the "inlet" position ? The head is back from skimming (looks way better than it was ) so I aim to reassemble tomorrow - just the above 2 worries Cheers Les's instructions were brilliant. Great forum !
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