Thread: TDV6 oil pumps

“Can of worms!” “Ticking Time bomb!” “Volcano ready to blow!”
pick the relevant metaphor to describe my engine!

So my half million km TDV6 has a unreinforced oil pump. It has the part number ending in AC. How has this not self destructed is beyond me.

The water pumps bearings are shot and there are only half of the impeller blades still intact and it’s not been over heating either.

The intakes are so full of crud I am surprised it ran at all and the timing belt is starting to de-laminate.

I may need more than the week to sort all this out.

More updates tomorrow as I get further into it.

Andy.
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If the timing belt has never been changed the original pump probably won’t break. That’s impressive

Very impressive indeed. Timing belt went over 3x the LR stated service limit (160000km from memory).

Best of luck.

In shows how good they can be, I think over maintaining by people who don’t know exactly what they are doing whether that be the owners or over confident mechanics cause half the problems we see

Originally Posted by discomatt69

In shows how good they can be, I think over maintaining by people who don’t know exactly what they are doing whether that be the owners or over confident mechanics cause half the problems we see

Agree I’m pretty sure timing belts last 3x the interval. Son has a Subaru with EJ engine and belt looks immaculate 20k kms over the interval for charge. I’m thinking to see how far it goes.

Years ago a brother bought an Alfa 90 that was overdue for its belt change. The belt snapped on the drive home, fortunately only bending every valve.

Recently my sister in law had her VW Allspace die a sudden death, 5 years old, they declined the timing belt change at service, 4 months later it had a major engine failure, sold the car for next to nothing so clearly some are better than others

Some progress today.
Upon further inspection it definitely has had a belt change as when the engine is timed up I can see a paint mark on the crank pulley which lines up with a faint paint mark on the oil pump. The belt is a Dayco brand too.

I’ve managed to get the RH cylinder head off with no major headache apart from the odd sneaky bolt here and there. Injectors came out nice and easy.
I am very surprised to find this head in really great condition. Very clean on the inside, no wear or damage to the cams, lifters etc. All the lash adjusters were good too.
doesn’t look like this is the failed side.

Now for the bad:-
I’ve got a seized injector. And for the life of me I cannot remove it. No6 is stuck. It’s as stuck as a stuck thing!!
I’ve tried the removal tool, no joy. Tried prising it up whilst trying to turn it, no joy. So this injector is officially toast. So Ive removed the solenoid from the top of the stuck injector and made up an adapter to screw into the injector body, I’ve got a 5kg slide hammer attached to this and with as much force as I can put into the hammer it is not budging. Bear in mind it has been soaking in wd40 for the past 2 days.
What do I do?
my thoughts are, chain drill the cam cover around the injector so I can at least get the cover off and remove the head, then warm the head and continue with the slide hammer, or just go and get a head from a wreck.

Thoughts!

Answers on a postcard to the usual address please.

Andy