What was the trouble

[Defender=1st]

What was the trouble with the early Td5's everyone says buy a later one i know about the oil pump bolt but is there anything else ??? Thanks Adrian

[DarrenR]

What was the trouble with the early Td5's everyone says buy a later one i know about the oil pump bolt but is there anything else ??? Thanks Adrian

That it was designed by Land Rover to begin with :eek: :eek: :eek:

Best regards
DarrenR

[seqfisho]

Plastic dowel for the head locating pins

Oil in the injector harness

Cracking radiators

Oil coolers splitting

exhaust manifold studs snapping

Head gaskets

That'll do.

Not that 300tdi's were any better to start with:angel:

[Defender=1st]

Plastic dowel for the head locating pins

Oil in the injector harness

Cracking radiators

Oil coolers splitting

exhaust manifold studs snapping

Head gaskets

That'll do.

Not that 300tdi's were any better to start with:angel:
surly thats a Td5 in general not jst the early ones ?? i mean are there any differences with the early one and the later ones besides the age. design ?? eg not jst the early ones had Plastic dowel for the head locating pins did they ??

[Rosco]

....... exhaust manifold studs snapping



I thought I read/heard somewhere ... 'praps here :angel:
that this prob was more aligned to re-chipped jobbies with consequently higher EGT's ... ??

Cheers

[DarrenR]

I thought I read/heard somewhere ... 'praps here :angel:
that this prob was more aligned to re-chipped jobbies with consequently higher EGT's ... ??

Cheers

Exhaust manifold studs breaking is a common problem on a lot of alloy head diesel engines and is not specifically a Land Rover thing.

Best regards
DarrenR

[td5110]

What was the trouble with the early Td5's everyone says buy a later one i know about the oil pump bolt but is there anything else ??? Thanks Adrian


What do people mean when they say "early"? What things were fixed/changed at what date(s)? How can you tell if these things have been fixed?

[Defender=1st]

What do people mean when they say "early"? What things were fixed/changed at what date(s)? How can you tell if these things have been fixed?
yeah thats what i mean and wanna know ?? thansk Adrian

[owoodland]

surly thats a Td5 in general not jst the early ones ?? i mean are there any differences with the early one and the later ones besides the age. design ?? eg not jst the early ones had Plastic dowel for the head locating pins did they ??

Kevin at Rover-tech tells me that they updated a lot of the problem parts in the MY 2003 TD5s.

Namely: 1. Different alloy in the head
2. Steel locating dowels, not plastic
3. Different oil cooler
4. Other stuff that I can't remember, may have included different injector harness

Sounds like basically a good engine design with a few stuff-ups that they fixed later on.

As mentioned in other threads, mine is in for some *VERY* expensive repairs at the moment and will have the 2003 upgrade stuff put on to replace the original components, this includes the steel locating dowels and the update oil cooler.

Owen.