Thread: 300 Tdi Head Gasket

Originally Posted by Tins

I 3D printed those for mine.

I spotted them on Thingiverse.
If your doing a run I'll put my hand up

Tony

Originally Posted by TonyC

I spotted them on Thingiverse.
If your doing a run I'll put my hand up

Tony

How many do you want?
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Originally Posted by Tins

How many do you want?
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The lad needs six, a few spares would be great

I'll send you a PM

Tony

Originally Posted by TonyC

The lad needs six, a few spares would be great

I'll send you a PM

Tony

I'll give him spares. The filament I used may not last forever, but then neither did the originals from LR. I mean this, feel free to hit me up for more if you need. I'm learning this whole 3D thing.

PS, is blue OK???

Originally Posted by Tins

I'll give him spares. The filament I used may not last forever, but then neither did the originals from LR. I mean this, feel free to hit me up for more if you need. I'm learning this whole 3D thing.

PS, is blue OK???

Any colour is good.

Thanks

Tony

I'm just doing my head gasket now. A word to the wise - there is a bolt that is behind the oil dipstick tube on the side of the motor. That is the block coolant drain. It's a 13mm bolt with a copper washer. Drain the coolant there BEFORE you remove the head so you get as little coolant in the oil as possible.

Don't do what I did and find out about it just after you've removed the head and put coolant into the sump.

Draining the block before you take the head off would be zero coolant in the sump.

Yes it's not that hard to drain off, but I would've loved to have known that before hand.

The block coolant drain is not mentioned in the 3 manuals I have. Which is a bit crap really.

Originally Posted by gusthedog

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The block coolant drain is not mentioned in the 3 manuals I have. Which is a bit crap really.

This is one of the reasons to follow other folks that do this kind of stuff.
Even tho I've been lucky enough to go without such issues, watching Mike at 'britrest' Brittanica Restorations .. he has a lot of good advice tips and tricks he uses.

He's always on about that block drain ... and sometimes they get rusted in and can break .. etc.

Handy to watch some of his vids he's done back in time .. and he does this stuff almost daily .. so even maybe less than 10 videos back, he would have done a head gasket.

Originally Posted by gusthedog

I'm just doing my head gasket now. A word to the wise - there is a bolt that is behind the oil dipstick tube on the side of the motor. That is the block coolant drain. It's a 13mm bolt with a copper washer. Drain the coolant there BEFORE you remove the head so you get as little coolant in the oil as possible.

Don't do what I did and find out about it just after you've removed the head and put coolant into the sump.

Draining the block before you take the head off would be zero coolant in the sump.

Yes it's not that hard to drain off, but I would've loved to have known that before hand.

The block coolant drain is not mentioned in the 3 manuals I have. Which is a bit crap really.

I'll give you another hint.
When your head gasket has blown into the cooling system, and the whole shebang is pressurised

Take the cap off the expansion tank, before removing the block drain, ask the young bloke why

Tony