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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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With everything else you already do you should make a 'peg board' for the various types of loom, order in miles of wire in various colours & make your own.
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Not so long ago you could have bought the 200Tdi Rangie for £360!
If the engine loom not the same as that of a 200Tdi Disco ?
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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MLOR wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:29 pm Not so long ago you could have bought the 200Tdi Rangie for £360!
If the engine loom not the same as that of a 200Tdi Disco ?
similar but finding a 1990 one for £360 :lol:

Now have a 1993 loom which came from a 200tdi RR, except for the engine / gearpox loom. It will work. Getting onto that again after I have finished the rear axle, bled the brakes and dropped it all back onto the ground :D
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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richardthestag wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:37 pm

similar but finding a 1990 one for £360 :lol:

Now have a 1993 loom which came from a 200tdi RR, except for the engine / gearpox loom. It will work. Getting onto that again after I have finished the rear axle, bled the brakes and dropped it all back onto my hand :D
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Been a while sorry

Episode 2-5 of the HGF are on yootoob, it is working now 8-)

Piccy update is as follows

all this is to replace the 3 core/freeze plugs down each side of the engine block
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On the drivers side, the starter motor and engine mount need to be removed. Engine mount was tired :lol:
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The heat shield that protects the starter from exhaust heat was broken. Fix was easy and dare I say elegant*

for something that is hidden from view
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Next is the passenger side, again engine mount needs to be removed, again it was tired
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5 of the 6 core plugs were very tired, this is one of the better ones :evil:
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heads were skimmed <5thou, responded well. Engine will be reassembled with composite gaskets which are more forgiving and thicker than OE tin gaskets. So compression ratio should be ok. :geek:
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assembled valves after re grinding the seats. Of course valve, spring, collets all went back into the hole from where they came from
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assembled exhaust manifolds because I thought it would make life easier. It didn't on the passenger side head but did on the drivers side. so all square on that then
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camshaft was next to go in, along with timing gear. did this before heads went on as dead easy to see top dead centre
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once chain fitted, the heads went on and were torqued down... except for the outer row of bolts on each head
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More coming
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part deux on the HGF fix

old engine mounts were temporarily fitted so I could get the heads on, then they had to be removed for replacement with a new OE product that is almost certainly made from butter
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timing cover was cleaned and oil pump built up with new parts. Original water pump was fitted with new gasket and quite a bit of instant gasket, the water pump was leaking before. Making sure it doesnt again
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all goes together easily but is very time consuming
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once the oil pump is primed, the distributor can be installed and the engine can be started. Bit of a faff because rotor was one tooth out. Got there in the end. Then a small misfire which turned out to be a dodgy injector connector on #1 injector
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ignition timing set, then installed cooling fan and cowl. Next is to bed the new cam in. 2k rpm for 20 mins
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It did use a little coolant, pressure tester found two leaks, bottom hose and hose to the LPG vaporiser
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temporary snow fun
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Original LPG fault that blew the plenum inlet pipe apart was due to one dodgy wire on this connector. pulled the crimp connector out, soldered a wire to it and then connected it back together.
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Victory 400 mile drive found performance to be improved. torque is impressive again (not that it wasn't before) economy is no different at all, even though I was <2.5k rpm for the 400 mile test.

Bottom hose is leaking slightly at the radiator and the heads need retorquing. Else that is it!
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with that ^^^ distraction, not a huge amount of time has been on Southpaw. Mrs is glad that I am back on it and that money is coming in again :P

diagnosed the 5 connectors that go to the engine and gearbox. Identified which I need and made up a loom specifically for the 200tdi LT77 setup this car has. Just need to connect it into the main loom :P
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Finished off installing rear light electrics
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head light bowls fitted, which were then fitted with the original lights but new bezels. not without it's challenges! cheapo nasty fucking shite headlight units :evil:
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Engine fan has gert big lumps taken out of it. I need to do a timing belt replacement on this engine. Aiming to sort the fan at the same time
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Fuel filter was removed from drivers side location, it may go back to passenger side which I have the backet for. jury is out
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front prop went on, captive bolts at the transfer box end were UNF but I think had metric nuts hammered onto them because they were a cunt ( and I do NOT use that word lightly) to do. By the time I realised I had 3 done up, one to go... which was a weapons grade little feller I can tell you
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bumper and spoiler are now bolted in place, repro bumper looks nice, would be even nicer if they had welded the bolts in the right fucking place
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dash top was installed over the heater and connectors were being connected up
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Oh Tdi timing belts. I'm sure you'll be doing the tensioner & idler too as a matter of course, you've got an old fashioned torque wrench with the deflecting pointer to set the belt? I think it's about 18lb/ft, if that's right I'll worry as not done one for about 14-15 years.
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bringing us up to date on Southpaw

finally got myself organised and arranged a bulkhead blank plate, was then able to install loom and bracket for fuel filter... which might be too close to the exhaust
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then the heater came back out again :roll: the owner mentioned that he thought the matrix was leaking. The tester suggested that it was
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however it was some gloop/glue/shit on the bottom pipe that was not allowing the flexi to seat properly. still while it was apart I was able to peer into the unit and found buckets of mould foam remains and sand. cleaned it all out
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replaced the rear wiper motor which was seized solid and burned out
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heater unit was reassembled with new foams fitted and tested fine
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installed, along with the dash top and then the steering column and controls. Had to splice old and new connectors for the front wiper motor and the ignition switch.
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tomorrow electrics test I think
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Hooli wrote: Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:04 pm Oh Tdi timing belts. I'm sure you'll be doing the tensioner & idler too as a matter of course, you've got an old fashioned torque wrench with the deflecting pointer to set the belt? I think it's about 18lb/ft, if that's right I'll worry as not done one for about 14-15 years.
yes bought a kit with the whole shebang, doesnt look too nasty* compared to a V8 top end rebuild
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