Thread: td5 timing chain pressurising

anyone?

If the cover "blew" off your engine is stuffed. The breather from the rocker cover to the intake pipes must be going like a compressor, dipstick should be popping out also and I honestly doubt the engine would run if there is enough pressure to "blow out" the cam cover.
The sealing between camchain and rocker cover isnt the problem.
Most likely the plug is damaged, wrong size(aftermarket) wrong O ring fitted.
It should be quite a tight fit.

How much crank case pressure do you have?

cheers

Maybe its rattling out, not blowing out. The dipstick stays in, the engine runs fine, the replacement cover was a bearmach, labelled with the correct LR part number (LRI100030).
There is no oil in the coolant or milkiness in the oil, so I don't think the head gasket is the issue. It wasn't using or losing oil prior to this, and I know where the coolant loss is - drain plug not sealing fully.
Based on this I'm still baffled.
Alex

Originally Posted by Alex 110

Maybe its rattling out, not blowing out. The dipstick stays in, the engine runs fine, the replacement cover was a bearmach, labelled with the correct LR part number (LRI100030).

The Bearmach cam cover plugs are total junk.

When I first got my d2 I had a leaking cam cover plug, which was replaced with a Bearmach item on the basis that these were a quality part. Less than 10 months down the track the plug was leaking again and so loose in the head it was you could rattle it back and forth with a finger and it basically popped out with a fingernail under the edge.

I replaced with a LR part which was fairly difficult to push into place to install. When I did the head at easter I had to lever the cam plug out with a screw driver.

cheers
Paul

Thanks - I'll see if I can source a genuine one. BTW the BM plug was very hard to push in the 1st time, but when it blew I recovered & refitted it with silicone, went in much easier & came out again fairly soon (lost it that time)

Well now I know,I've learn't something new again I was told that they all come loose and it is normal

Originally Posted by greg smith

Well now I know,I've learn't something new again I was told that they all come loose and it is normal

If that is even possibly true I'll carry out my plan to fit a metal strut over the front of the plug to hold it in place. Thanks

With a good new O ring fitted it should be really tight.
Mine felt like it would break when I levered it out last.

They don't all come loose/out but as the O ring gets older they do leak.