Thread: Urgent mechanical advice required!

Hi all,

First, thank you all very much for the assistance and many generous offers of help. What a great community this is!

The Repco mechanic in Halls Creek spent about four hours on the phone to United Fuel Injectors in Perth diagnosing the problem and worked out that it was a blocked engine breather filter that was causing the problem - forcing oil out and into the engine which was being burnt and coming out of the exhaust.

He didn't have a part, and rather than have us waiting in Halls Creek for 4 or 5 days for a part, has temporarily fixed the problem by putting a hole in the top of the breather filter to allow the engine to breath properly - it certainly seems to have worked!!! He suggested putting a cloth over it to prevent any dust getting in when we drive on.

As soon as I get to a bigger service centre I'll source a new filter and whack it on.

So, hopefully problem solved! If anyone thinks that this doesn't sound like a solution, please feel free to let me know.

Once again, thank you all for you help and generosity.

Mark.

Once again thanks all for

have a look here, is that it?
cleaning a 300Tdi engine breather - what with?

Good news.

Good to hear that it was a very inexpensive part, and not a cracked head, turbo or other more expensive bits!

are you coming darwin way,i havnt got one but you can get one sent to my place

Hi Mark and Sandy

Good on that bloke at Halls Creek for finding that problem.

On the strength of that report, I will be washing all of my oil separator / breather's, out tomorrow.

Blow-by does build up a lot of crud in some funny places, having worked on some Fergy TEA20 motor's recently, I have cleaned a lot of rubbish out of under the rocker covers, etc.

The surprising find under one of those covers, mixed in with the crud, was a couple of cupfuls of water.

Thanks for letting us know that outcome with your Land Rover, although it must of gave you some heartache, I'm pleased that the problem is understandable.

Cheers Arthur

Originally Posted by big guy

have a look here, is that it?
cleaning a 300Tdi engine breather - what with?

Yep - second thumbnail - that's the chap.
Mine's been pierced by the mechanic now to allow it to breath, so no chance of cleaning it. Blknight has sorted me with a new part, which I'll pick up in Broome. Brilliant!

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Hi Mark and Sandy

Good on that bloke at Halls Creek for finding that problem.

On the strength of that report, I will be washing all of my oil separator / breather's, out tomorrow.

Blow-by does build up a lot of crud in some funny places, having worked on some Fergy TEA20 motor's recently, I have cleaned a lot of rubbish out of under the rocker covers, etc.

The surprising find under one of those covers, mixed in with the crud, was a couple of cupfuls of water.

Thanks for letting us know that outcome with your Land Rover, although it must of gave you some heartache, I'm pleased that the problem is understandable.

Cheers Arthur

Thanks Arthur - yeah a fair bit of heartache, especially when I thought the old girl might be on her last legs. I was really happy that so many forum member voted to give the old bus a second chance - warmed the cockles of my heart!!! I guess the good thing about things going wrong with your car is you learn more about the car, what can go wrong, why and how to fix it! And, with an older model defender like mine, most of it is easily fixable as long as you can get the parts - might be a bit more tricky with the new models and all their electronic wizardry. . .

One thing that is interesting to note - in the poll, not one of the 30 people who voted hit the "Nah it's buggered" button.

LR owner = eternal optimist?