Thread: TD5 Replacement Effort

it wont come out fully dressed but you will get damn close to it.

Fan and AC have to come off, a couple of other bits you might take off depending on how good your tooling is but only because of access to other bits that you need to undo.

you should be able to nail it in 8 hours for the pull.replace and call it 2 more for changing over the dressing and setting everything up to go back in.

Be careful of your TC if the box tips forwards they can pop loose. Dont forget to reposition the flex plate and TC so that a mounting bolt lines up with the access hole in the bottom of the flywheel housing.

Cheers Dave,
I reckon that's about right. I had those kind of numbers in my head!
Add a factor to account for my 'office hands' lol

Ralph

TD5, you need to remove the starter motor to get to the flex plate/tc bolts.
there are 3. use the bottom inspection hole to turn the ring-gear with a big flatblade screw driver to get to each bolt via starter motor hole.

when i refitted my auto, i was able to spin the TC with my finger through the inspection hole with a slight gap between the TC & flex plate, this is how i knew the TC was properly seated.

If you are talking a Defender it will come out with the fan in place and gearbox, tc attached. I have don it, however I removed the radiator and inter-cooler as well, but the air con condenser stayed in place. Using an engine crane, Only real thing that was taken off was the air con compressor.

Make sure it's the same type engine (10P or 15+P) and you'll need a tester to save the injector codes to the ECU

Originally Posted by sierrafery

Make sure it's the same type engine (10P or 15+P) and you'll need a tester to save the injector codes to the ECU

I thought you could use the later engines with a little help from a Nanocom. Isn't that the case?

Originally Posted by johntins

I thought you could use the later engines with a little help from a Nanocom. Isn't that the case?

Not really cos the MSB ECUs originally used on 10Ps will not accept green top injector codes nor Eu3 fuel maps and missing the AAT input link... they can be bodged but it will not be a clean job and perfectly runinng engine

If possible just get the ECU as well.