99' D2 TD5 oil pump bolt failures again.

Dont recall saying "I told you So or "You should've known Better..

As I said more than once, hope people start to realise the end concequences of not checking the bolt and that we dont have to read of any more engine failures because of this..

Your opinion is they are piece of Junk..mine are over 8 yrs my D2 took me to all parts of this great country, and never failed to get me home..


I truely hope the costs are minimised by the fact you noticed the oil light..and your message has they desired effect..

Cheers Ean

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Originally Posted by BIG O

... I wasn't trying to tell you blokes who know a bit more than most anything new, just those that don't or may have put it off like me and I'm sure there are plenty when you look at how many have looked at the post.

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Thanks for the reminder - I have been meaning to check my 2001 TD5 130 for ages and keep putting it off......

Oh - And I meant to say that I was sorry to hear of your situation. Soooo preventable with just 10 cents of Loctite by Land Rover when it was built

oh, I was under the impression you said you'd checked the later model as yo uwere aware but didnt check the model it applied to the most? :confused:

Yes I did check my 03 pump bolt, it was tight, but no loctite on it. In a fit of rage the reference to piece of junk is not the entire vehicle or engine just the oil pump , chain and bolt set up.
We have had zero problems with our 03 that we've had for 5 years now,, apart from the window regulator, an easy fix that doesn't potentially cause an accident when it fails, oh,and , that was what I was on about!.

Ok what's involved in checking it???

I could work on the theory that mine has been around the globe 20 times and so if it was to fail it would have done it in the past 400,000km.

There is a step by step proceedure in either the Good oil or projects & Tutorials section, would say its now in the Good oil.

It can be checked by just dropping the sump and sittting it on the dii and crossmember, as you can see the sprocket and get a socket on to see if its tight.
It is far easier to replace the bolt if you remove the sump completely.

Urban Panzers site also has a step by step as well from memory

discovery2.co.uk.

Cheers Ean

From memory, my mechanic did the job in around two hours, including putting loctite on a new bolt ... there's a fair amount of work involved in removing the sump.

I just checked mine a few weeks ago and as I posted in the other thread, Not very tight and no locktite, used little finger and a small 10mm spanner to undo it. 2002 Td5 auto. 140,000 k's.

IMHO, whatever MY TD5 you are driving - discovery/defender - get it looked at. A NEW td5 motor will set you back around $17k. Compare that to checking the bolt yourself, or a grease monkey for a couple of hunjee..I'd say it's cheap insurance.

Picked up the car on Saturday from MR automotive. I think we were very lucky. All five big end bearings were replaced, 2nd hand oil pump, new sprocket and the usual new gaskets. Mains bearings were not affected and the crank bearing surface was said to be perfect ....wffhhooooo!!!:angel:. Only numbers 1 and 3 big end bearings had started to run dry in the to my calculation 400 to 500 metre oil pressure light on drive before I shut it down. The bolt only undid the smallest amount, just enough to let the sprocket turn on the pump shaft.
The rest of the engine including the turbo and alternator seem to have escaped damage as well. We were merely potting around leading up to the light coming on, which I think saved us.

I now had possibly a little more harmonic like vibration at 100km/h 2200rpm at first but that seems to be lessening the more I drive it. FINGERS CROSSED:eek:

More good news,,no oil leaks anywhere on the engine anymore..

All up including towing it twice, We spent about 2200 hundred. I should have saved if I had of done the bolt like I did our 2nd TD5 (wifes car so done first), but didn't get around to it, although it was on the list......