Thread: D4 (3.0) Timing Belt

Originally Posted by speleomike

Hi



They just do Landrovers & Jeeps. Picked up my car today. Jobs all done. Not real happy at the delay but its finished and they didn't charge for the extra time. They have previously done this with body off as usually it's been a turbo replacement as well. Mine didn't need a turbo replacement and they tried it with body on. They have just one mechanic that has small enough hands but started the job when he was away. I had a look at some pics the mechanic had of the tube that caused them angst. It was a PCV pipe, that needed to come off to get the HPFP off, and they had trouble undoing the bracket that held that on that PCV as its so close to the firewall.

Jill and I looked at YouTube video last night at the procedure for the timing belt replacement. Heck, it's so complex. I'd forget what bits go back where and how! Anyone on this forum that does this themselves has my admiration.

Thanks
Mike

Hey Mike,

Hope the bill wasn't too exxy then, I left my fuel pump in place. Bought a timing set it eBay and followed the LR manual, the main thing you need is something to learn your chest on when reaching in the hole. The good thing is you got your car back, at the price you were expecting.

Originally Posted by justinc

Why remove the HPFP if only doing a belt?? There is absolutely no need to rrmove the body to replace fuel pump belts in any model wih the 2.7 or 3.0 engines...

I suspect it was the belt cover rather than the pump itself. That pipe running down the back of the cover that is bolted too far down to be accessible and as far as I could see impossible to access from below made the task of refitting the cover very time-consuming for me, fiddling around for a couple of hours until it happened to go into place. I suspect that with experience it could be refitted more readily. Removing the cover was much easier - just pull hard to distort the cover as required.

That pipe is easily undone, there is a bolt on the lower rear of the the passenger side head. After the battery tray etc is removed, Undo that and it's no issue.