Rosco wrote:

Good quality temporary repair Clayton.

That's what i thought Rosco, thanks  Clayton.

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.
Keeper.

L110CDL wrote:

I'm nearly there now

It all started a week or two after i had gone and picked up those landy parts on the trailer, my engine started to produce a small knocking noise I went and saw my indy about it and he wasn't sure if it was the small or big ends knocking
My choice was to leave the engine in Millie and or change it again, i worked out this engine had done around the 100,000 miles with me, but it did have around 165,000 verified miles already on it
Near the end of 2023 i bought a spare engine local-ish to me, a chance that i could not refuse due to the engine being already internally " new " the indy was using it to charge battery's but as he was not using it enough, so he put it up for sale.
The time had come to put it in Millie, so i took the engine over to my indy from where it was stored and he would get it ready for the install into Millie. I dropped off Millie to my indy and a couple days later she was ready to pick up This was going to be quick change over as i always need Millie for work, so the turner performance head will be put on sometime this year replacing the standard head
I went to pick her up and my indy said that there is an issue with the " engine " so run it for a few days to see how it goes as were not sure when it was last run ( iv'e had it nearly a year without it running ) so after a small time i still had the issue which was, when she started first thing in the morning she sounded like one of those diesel loco's doing a cold start we checked the glow plugs and they were spot on then we checked the injectors, they were all ok
This left the injection pump after i had the injection pump installed after it had been " reconditioned " ( about a year later it started to leak diesel from the front of the injection pump coming out of the wading plug hole, so the place i got the injection pump form had Millie for a day to sort the problem out which they did, under warranty. ) When my indy went to change the injection pump from one engine to the other he had a moment as who ever did the injection pump warranty work rounded the bolt head off so my indy had to hit a socket on the bolt head hard enough to get the bolt out, which he did but by doing that it damaged the injection pump so hence the starting problem.
I have just had another " reconditioned " pump installed by my indy and were back to where we should of been a long time ago, Millie is flying along now, pulling well too. My indy did a compression test on the engine and all the psi's are over 350 per piston, that's over a 100 psi per piston more than the engine that was took out.
I'm super happy now

Iv'e just got to sort out finding some rims for her now

Proctas got some boosts here in storage

Also id get your old engine rebuilt and kept for a spare, ready to go in if ever needed  Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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