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Unfortunately, the closest MOT station to me is known to be strict. I would have liked to have warmed it up first but that's difficult without an MOT, and there's no guarantee they'll look at it immediately when I drop it off. hubcap's post about the diaphragm spring is an interesting one. The van i...

Forgot to mention I was also told these engines came out the factory smoking and to not worry too much. The mot guy said emission test was done by sight so a fiar bit of wiggle room. Mine passed before I had the pump rebuilt and it belched smoke on start up Hi Bryce, My MOT man said my van took the...

Today's update: I bled the fuel filter and ran the van until no bubbles in the fuel line. I leak checked the LDA. The diaphragm's fine. Checked the pump timing again. It's spot on. I even retarded it back to bottom limit: 0.83mm. All to no avail. The fuel pump is now off except for the pulley, which...

I assume you have read Simon Baxters Definitive smoking thread. The LDA gets really moving under load, not somewhat looking like a mechanic pushing the throttle cable. Hot or cold wont matter. I rebuilt-mine a few months back. The rubber diaphragm was split. Remove the air inet, Push actuator with ...

Ok Gang, Today I got my van back together and running. While I decided to replace all the belts, oil and filters, the main purpose of this exercise was to solve the smoking issue, for which I replaced all 4 injectors with some of Brickwerks' finest. The short story is it is now smoking worse than ev...

I'm all good, thanks everyone, I now have tensioning lever, tension meter, a replacement tensioner and plenty of instructions. Think I'll change it every year just so I can get my money's worth out of my new tools! Let's see what the weekend brings... hopefully not too much rain.  :cry: Cheers Steve.

Many thanks for this.

Belt tensioner is on order, but I was going to wing the tension, I'll see if I can get hold of the tension tool for the weekend.
I'll grab the pdf's this evening.

So impressed with the support from this community. Thank you.

Pretty much all places now sell refurbed pumps based on you sending in your old one in to replace their stock. You can send it to a guy called diesel Bob who has a Web page and is well thought of and he can refurb it and send your original back. Sounds like you doing exactly what I had to do! I had...

Hello, Thanks for the quick reply. I am removing the bolt to change the cam belt. Regards Steve. Tap wiggle jiggle , it will come off https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/af346/mattsredbay/syncro%20stuff/syncro%20conversion/.highres/FB92EB9B-95A5-459F-8F5A-D97595E634E6_zpsqofhde7e.jpg Thanks for ...

If you are using a hammer then a lump hammer is the way. A normal hammer wont cut it. With such a high torques bolt a small spanner and hammer also wont cut it - how long is the breaker you are using. AFAIK you dont need to remove the crank pulley at all to change the timing belt, you need to remov...

multisi wrote: ↑08 Nov 2022, 09:05 Peter Russek workshop manual is great for diesel engine work.

Thanks multisi, I do have this manual (the one I have is a little handbook). I couldn't find a clear view of the front pulley assembly in this.

I done mine over the summer and found the hardest part getting the belt back on. Defo don't need to remove the bolt in the toothed sproket just the four Allen head bolts(no 14) Make sure you have the fuel pump and cam locked! Hopefully that might help Thank you Bryce, Just realised this is the Bent...

wow! Thank you very much everyone for your help, particularly cecil and bryce for posting the photos. I have just been outside tapping away with my copper hammer. The pulley is stuck solid! Though now I know it should definitely come off, I will come home from work tomorrow armed with a set of pulle...

Good morning, Thank you all for your help. I've been out this morning and given the pulley a seeing to with a large hammer... it didn't budge but I didn't spend much time on it as needed to come to work. I'm happy to take your words for it, so I'll have a more concerted effort at the weekend (no gar...

Thanks colinthefox, Maybe I am being thick then. I have removed one vee-belt pulley by removing the 4 cap screws but as far as I can see the lower cam belt cover remains trapped behind a second vee-belt pulley that is integral with the crank pulley. My van has PAS, so I don't know if that is why the...