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Any Landy TD5 Engine Experts?
scootz - 19/5/10 at 03:58 PM

Noticed that the engine in the Land Rover TD5 belonging to my father-in-law had been weeping oil from around the rear of the rocker cover.

I ordered a new gasket and went to change it today.

Got to the last bolt (the area where it had been weeping). It's recessed and I had difficulty locating it with my socket... put a finger down for a feel-around and discovered there was no bolt there!

Unfortunately I wasn't lucky enough to discover that someone had just forgotten to put the bolt back in last time it was changed. Turns out the bloomin thing has been sheared off and the other half is still in the cylinder head!

It's the top-left one which is under the lip-mouldings meaning it's the most difficult of them to get vertical access.

Anyway.. changed the gasket for the sheer hell of it and fitted it back up. Question is... is it worth going to the hassle of drilling it out, or just leave it alone!?


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[Edited on 19/5/10 by scootz]

mookaloid - 19/5/10 at 05:07 PM

how far down is it sheared? Is it possible to get a blob of mig weld onto the top? if so you can probably weld a nut on to the stub and extract it that way.

Failing that I find that the grey Loctite silicone gasket 5699 is pretty good at filling that sort of gap.

owelly - 19/5/10 at 06:12 PM

And whilst you're there, pull the wiring loom plug out of under the cylinder head and if there's oil in it, change the injector loom. About £35 delivered from DLS in Matlock..........
Then check the ECU for oil.

dazzx10r - 19/5/10 at 06:35 PM

Try here, http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/

hillbillyracer - 19/5/10 at 10:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by owelly
And whilst you're there, pull the wiring loom plug out of under the cylinder head and if there's oil in it, change the injector loom. About £35 delivered from DLS in Matlock..........
Then check the ECU for oil.


Yeah, Discos are a bugger for this, the oil capillary feeds along the loom & fills the ECU!

With regard to the sheared bolt I'd favour trying a good sealer to help the rubber gasket, it's not a structural thing so as long as you stop the leak the job's right. If it doesnt work then you'll have to deal with the bolt ( I've had much success with the welding a nut on the top of the broken stud) but if it does there's much work saved.

Dave Ashurst - 20/5/10 at 05:41 AM

Perhaps, if it sheared due to overtightening then it it just might be loose enough for you to stir and twiddle it out - with a bit of patience. With the head gone theres no tension in the bolt, and theres plenty of oil on it.
Fingers crossed theres no loctite on it.