Quote Originally Posted by Mjak42 View Post
Have fun changing that Graeme, I have 189,000 klms was still working fine but changed it as preventative maintenance, how they got some of those bolts holding the shroud in, ended up with a few scratches up my arms, lol the turbo boost valve down the bottom I just took the 3 bolts out and just removed the larger short hose by the radiator, then you can just move it out of the way, smallest g clamp with small smooth piece of wood for small belt start it up at 12 o’clock turning pulley clockwise must hold and keep belt on top pulley, it tries to come off. I made a tool to hold fan pulley out of 4mm flat bar. I got my alternator from Island 4x4 in the uk for £189 and £100 shipping arrived at my door in 7 days.
I did much the same, although I removed the other 2 hoses from the valve after the fan was removed to make it easier to keep the valve out of the way, but erroneously refitted the top intake and coolant hoses before refitting the top valve hose so had to backtrack a little. It was too dark to work underneath on the shroud and valve so finished the top, only to remove it all next day. Adding to my time spent was a brain fade trying to undo the left-threaded fan the wrong way, eventually re-assessing when my efforts were fruitless.
I had obtained a brass fitting to replace the little plastic tube that is prone to breaking off the top coolant hose and sure enough it snapped while removing the air intake hose. I already had a 1/8 BSPT tap so had purchased a 3/8" hose tail fitting which worked well. I replaced the plastic hose with rubber. I'm quite relieved that the plastic tube now can't break at an inopportune time. I'm considering replacing the other side one too even though those aren't known for breaking, although being a bleed line the hole diameter in the plastic is considerably smaller than that of the brass fittings.
The starting battery doesn't seem to be dead yet but a new one is on hand, probably required when cooler weather arrives if it lasts that long.
I didn't think to buy coolant so changing the coolant is a job for the next day or 2.