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Hi ,yeh more gutted that I missed a days detecting!!! I kind of miss having bits of landy engine all over the front room floor!!! no really I am a bit gutted I have stripped it all but it only took a couple of hours ,and at leat it will go back with all new gaskets new head gasket. I can give it a decoke and paint everything before I refit so it will look all clean and shiny , and should be ok for a while , thanks for the tip john

MMM , think you may have been right , I have just checked the head and no 7 inlet port was black and covered in carbon all the other inlets are shiney clean ? checked the inlet manifold and guess what the matching port black , the other 3 are shiney clean , looks like the no 8 exhust valve has stopped opening so the gases have been going out the inlet valve as fuel was coming in , would that make it sound like its going to go bang ??? if it is the problem even though I have just stripped the lump down to just the block left in the landy at least I didnt leave a socket in the timing case ( thats what I thought I had done )

Hi , thanks for the reply, first thing that I did was turn the engine over by hand with the rocker cover removed to make sure all the valves were working ok?

Hi , right where do I start , my cambelt failed last month ( fuel leaking from a worn seal in the injector pump)after broken bolts , stuck fan nut , rounded of nuts I fitted a new belt , new pushrods ect ,had the pump fitted with a new seal ( and timed up) new glow plugs .It started first turn off the key , so I give it 100 mile test run and it run like clockwork ,lovely and smooth . Last week after loading up disco with my metal detecting stuff for a run out ,as I was driving I noticed a slight blowing ?popping noise ( sounded a bit like a manafold blow ) anyway it slowly got louder and louder until I thought the engine was going to expload , I pulled over phoned a friend and got towed home . at home I tried to start the landy , horrible poping noise engine lurching from side to side? , so I thought hole in piston ? took the head of ??? all fine . ok timing tensioner slipped ? took of the timing cover today all fine??? HELP

Found a place today not a mile from my home today that can supply and replace the seal on my injector pump for £25 , hopefully that will sort that ,so why I am waiting for that to be done I will strip off the timing back and replace the gasket and both crank and cam seals as well ,

Hi , just had a good look at all the seals and the leak seems to be fuel dripping from the injector into the timing case , is there a replacable seal in there ????

Hi , again , well after a stuck fan nut , several rounded off water pump , timing cover bolts , and very very stubern crankshaft pully bolt I got to the cambelt , it was not snapped but corroded or rotted away it was still in one piece but missing at least half its teeth , and the inside of the timing case was full of a black shredded furry mess ??? would this be due to oil leaking into the case , fuel or water ??? I dont want to rebiuld with a new belt until I can find out why its rotted away? any ideas or reasons what can cause this thanks john

Hi , thats what I tried yesterday but sods law one of the waterpump housing bolts rounded of , anyway went out about an hour ago modefide the fan a bit ( cut a big slot in the back so I could get the spanner nice and flat,) put a 10 ton ratchet strap around the pully then the chassie cranked it up and thought destruction or bust and smacked s**t out of it , well to my amazment after 3 days of trying of it came as easy and smooth as anything but I will now need a new pully , pully bolts and fan , but it was worth it . thanks again for all your help and suggestions and I will be following the can belt replacment thread on here and NOT the haynes manual , thanks again john

Hi , tryed that alreay , and a rachet strap , just about everything at my wits end now , just want to get on and do the job ( need me landy) and stumped at the first hurdle , soon the grinders coming out and goodby fan

Here is what mine looks like

Hi , now I can see the holes , problem is my is nothing like that , my belt pulley is a thin metal job that bolts to the water pump by 3 screws nothing like the hefty one in the photos

No , nothing?

Hi , again there are no holes apart from the 3 screw holes that bolt the pully on on my disco?

Hi , dont understand what holes that you mean?

Hi thanks for the quick reply , where do you place the bar??? any chance of a quick sketch thanks john

H Hi , help needed badly , my cambelt snapped on my 1994 200 tdi disco the other day 4 bent pushrods and new belt needed fine no problem just get the parts follow the manaul job done , ????? arrrrggggg JUST SPENT THE LAST 3 DAYS TRYING TO REMOVE THE F*!"*!G FAN ,I know that its a backward thread I have the right spanner , WD the nut , tryed hot boiling water , tryed locking the fanbetl pully wirth just about everthing I own , I CAN NOT SHIFT THIS NUT , any help would be very gratefully accept ed , otherwise I am going to go mad and just cut everything off with my angle grinder ,( I am on the east london essex borders if anyone wants to do it for me ) thanks john

just fitted a nice big thick ew earth lead , cleaned all the chassis and starter bolt contact points , see how that goes , if it deos it again I will go over the starter , thanks for all the advice , cheers john

Hi, thanks for the reply ,I will go and check it now

Hi, no I was in park , and sorry the starter did not turn

Hi, confusd on this one. I have a 200tdi disco , been driving all day no problems , stopped in a car park for about an hour ,then when I went to start the landi , it wouldnt have it ,all the dash light,s came on fine ,solenoid was clicking but it wouldnt fire , I managed to get a jump and that got me home , when I turned it off at home same problem wouldnt start??? , checked the battery but thats ok , lights work, oelectric windows ok , then tryed it again started first time just been out and had another go starts and runs fine , any ideas ??? ( by the way its a auto diesel)

Hi ,thanks for the info , How does the alternater draw currant from the battery when the engine is turned off???

Hi , I have a 94 disco , in the last week , my charging light has started staying on when I turn off the car??? when I turn the ignition on instead of all four dash lights coming on the charge light stays off .??? the landy runs fine ,charges ok with no other problems , but then when I stop turn and off the ignition , bang on comes the charge light , I have pulled apart and cleaned all conectors battery terminals and leads on the altenator , now I have to disconect the battery every time I stop to aviod draining the battery , HELP

Hi, thanks for the reply, just checked all the bulbs they all seem to be the right bulbs in the right holders , just out of interest just tried to turn off the disco with the brakes on and the front sidelights come on and the engine will not stop either ,????

Hi, again getting confused now ,the bulbs only work back to front when the side lights are on .If I turn off all lights and try the brakes they light up fine???

Hi, yes I think that you put it better than me.They are working back to front, sidelights put brakelights on , brakelights put sidelights on , but the bulbs can only be put in the right way round ,so maybe I have got some back to frint bulbs to????