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300tdi Head gasket ??
burgerman:
Woops :oops: :lol: Cant win um all, you can tell i am a V8 man at heart :roll:
Les Henson:
Valve stand down on a 300TDi engine should be-
Inlet - 0.81`to 1.09mm
Exhaust - 0.86 to 1.14mm
Les.
loony landy:
Well mine has been done took me about 6 hrs in total but 2 hrs was waiting for a gasket to arrive :roll: :roll:
Followed les guide and it was very simple and even a person with limited knowledge of the lady could do it.
Seems it has had a gasket before as the one i took off was nearly new but who ever did it never tightened the 8 headbolts in the mddle as these were just nipped up !! It has water on top of pistons 3 and 4 and you could see where is was leaking out !!!!
But now its all back on and seems to be working well, it get to temp ok and the heaters work better too.
Will check the head bolts after 200 miles just to be on the safe side :dance:
tack43:
Bear in mind you can't really check them unless you slacken all the bolts and redo the whole angle thing again, but, this would in effect "blow" the head gasket again. :'( Best to leave well alone if you are confident you've done it right first time.
Rich
loony landy:
--- Quote from: tack43 on December 31, 2008, 18:37:22 ---Bear in mind you can't really check them unless you slacken all the bolts and redo the whole angle thing again, but, this would in effect "blow" the head gasket again. :'( Best to leave well alone if you are confident you've done it right first time.
Rich
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cheers for that , i think we did it right well to the book anyway, just got a air lock somewhere now and i cant get rid of it !!!!!!
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