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Hi Dave, I'll have a look at all your suggestions tomorrow when I'm back home. Haven't seen a fuel filter that I recall (but I'll double check and fit one if not), glow plugs seem fine as when it is coughing a bit (trying to start) it's immediately after the glow plug light goes off (but will check ...

Hi Dave, Didn't notice a mark on the pump timing, just a locking hole (to lock the pump to the engine casing), which when we stripped it lined up with the TDC on the Flywheel. This is from the procedure in the Bently manual (for timing the fuel). So, everything was spot on. As you say the fuel has t...

Still been racking my brain, and I think there could only be one possiblity. If somehow the crank managed to turn, then that would mean the head was 180 deg out to the fuel timing. Thinking about it, it doesn't matter if the heads 180deg out as its the head that decides whether its a compression or ...

Hi and thanks for the reply, The engine was stripped after the timing marks were lined up on the flywheel/clutch, the fuel timing was then locked off (using a modified socket extension bar) using the timing hole. Both of these lined up before taking the belt off showing the engine as being static ti...

Hello everyone, I've just rebuilt my '89 1.6TD and I'm having a really bad time trying to get it started. Basically the alternator belt snapped on the motorway, and by the time I'd got it over to the hard shoulder the damage had been done (steam everywhere). When I stripped the engine down and had a...