Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

When I replaced the damaged timing sprocket and lightly contaminated belt a few weeks ago, I wasn’t able to reset the injection pump timing accurately because the flywheel housing is too close to the SIII bell housing cross member to allow fitting of the flywheel locking tool - I had to wait until the gearbox [...]

I managed to refit the oil pump and sump this afternoon, making best use of the fair weather (laying on your back in puddles of rain water is not condusive to a high standard of workmanship). I also took a close look at the bottom end of the dipstick before fitting the sump, and [...]

The oil leaks from the engine appear to have been from the lader frame joints, either from it’s face with the sump, or, more likely, from its joint with the block. With the gearbox off, access to the four horizontal bolts into the rear of the ladder frame allowed the removal of the ladder [...]

The good news is that the new timing sprocket and seal have stopped the small oil leak into the timing case - no new oil is eminating form the drain. The downside of the job is that I now need to reset the fuel pump timing, which is not easy given the flywheel timing [...]

Ever since fitting the rebuilt Tdi, I have had a very slight oil weep from the timing case. Not a good place to have an oil leak, but I left it for a while to see if the new seal just needed to bed in or if the thin running in oil was a [...]