Love your dedication and content and always look for it first but Mike, you need a break. I value your work ethic and understand being self employed myself but we in the LR community want you to keep going for a long time giving us the benefit of your experience and wisdom as no one else does or can do!
I had all this head scratching with the exhaust, eventually just ran the center silencer and then a pipe using existing left hand rear chassis hanger to exit behind the left back wheel. Sound lovely not too noisy and goes well! Plus a weight saving of the stupid rear muffler that as you say just heats up the wiring and everything else behind the rear cross member......less is more!
I figured it out this morning - replaced the rear bracket with the proper one and bent two on the exhaust back to shape - only 10mm but enough to cock the job up!
I put a 200 TDI block head in my old na 110 Fitted na exhaust manifold no turbo It was all old stuff burnt oil but done about 35 mpg and fitted a 19j engine in good condition to sell and it was fast pulled very well and super quiet Just kept my 2.5 petrol 110 super quiet old tank
Hi on the exhaust we use a 300 TDI decat pipe my son has got a proper 200 TDI and I’ve got a Disco engine in mine with a Steve Parker down pipe off the manifold,it goes straight to the back none of that in the chassis just one silencer in the middle not any noisier .
Ditto, was just thinking that - seems a weird way to route the exhaust when it will just go straight back. Probably better straight back for a left hooker, because it will be on their (Canadian) offside away from pedestrians. Is it maybe a weird exhaust design to do similar for a right hand drive UK vehicle ? (keeping diesel reek away from the nearside)
Love the 200Tdi, a definite link between the robust Series Engines, 90/110 and Defender, really should’ve had a cast iron head and it would’ve been louder and lasted forever , however I accept the issues you raise with fitting etc. B est engine for an off-road defender tho as weight far back and punchy low down. Quite why Land Rover abandoned the proven strong, robust, lightweight, relatively economical, capable platform escapes me, others have now filled that void and today’s LR’s are too expensive, unreliable and driven by wannabe3s
200Tdi was a good engine, but the 300tTdi was a jump ahead, but as LR usually does it F'ed it up Move the engine over the front axle for better traction, easy access to bell housing bolts, moved the turbo so you could access the starter when (not if) it goes wrong. The ladder frame was a nasty idea - with having bolts from the adaptor cover ( flywheel housing) you could not access the rods to change rings, bearings or pistons 300Tdi bad points - timing belt wear - belt was set too tight, and the guides were in the wrong place P gasket - leaked because the housing was not strong and expansion and contraction wore the paper seal - addressed by a metal gasket Poor head gasket - addressed by the metal shim gasket much later Poor cooling system - what a mistake! In 1984, they had the Isuzu 3.9 turbo fitted to the Australian Defenders - best engine LR never fitted to their line-up - could have saved us all those woes!
Bl@#dy hell Mike. What octane are you running on? Its great that its all coming together. Missed church again? Do you get a rest when the snow hits or have you some a winter project?
Love your dedication and content and always look for it first but Mike, you need a break.
I value your work ethic and understand being self employed myself but we in the LR community want you to keep going for a long time giving us the benefit of your experience and wisdom as no one else does or can do!
I appreciate that!
I had all this head scratching with the exhaust, eventually just ran the center silencer and then a pipe using existing left hand rear chassis hanger to exit behind the left back wheel. Sound lovely not too noisy and goes well! Plus a weight saving of the stupid rear muffler that as you say just heats up the wiring and everything else behind the rear cross member......less is more!
I figured it out this morning - replaced the rear bracket with the proper one and bent two on the exhaust back to shape - only 10mm but enough to cock the job up!
Sounds like a bit of a ballache with getting the engine in. Good that you had some help. Sounds like its all go for you at the moment Mike.
Just found out it was a Disco 200Tdi flywheel housing not a Defender one, which is why the holes and dowels didn't line up!
I put a 200 TDI block head in my old na 110
Fitted na exhaust manifold no turbo
It was all old stuff burnt oil but done about 35 mpg and fitted a 19j engine in good condition to sell and it was fast pulled very well and super quiet
Just kept my 2.5 petrol 110 super quiet old tank
There was no such thing as a 19J - even coming out of the factory!
Lol!
Hi on the exhaust we use a 300 TDI decat pipe my son has got a proper 200 TDI and I’ve got a Disco engine in mine with a Steve Parker down pipe off the manifold,it goes straight to the back none of that in the chassis just one silencer in the middle not any noisier .
Ditto, was just thinking that - seems a weird way to route the exhaust when it will just go straight back.
Probably better straight back for a left hooker, because it will be on their (Canadian) offside away from pedestrians.
Is it maybe a weird exhaust design to do similar for a right hand drive UK vehicle ? (keeping diesel reek away from the nearside)
The rush for your clutch fork was probable after the video where you said you had found the perfect combination.
I think so too!
Working on a Sunday? Mike, you need at least one day off a week!
Had a day off on my birthday!
And don't forget the turbo heat shield, if you don't want a smoky bonnet....
I was going to ask this community if they had one I could copy - they all broke or were not replaced - like chicken's teeth to find
@@BritannicaRestorations BLOODY HELL.... I've just seen the price of a second hand one.......
Yeap!
@@BritannicaRestorations One option could be a turbo jacket..
Love the 200Tdi, a definite link between the robust Series Engines, 90/110 and Defender, really should’ve had a cast iron head and it would’ve been louder and lasted forever , however I accept the issues you raise with fitting etc. B
est engine for an off-road defender tho as weight far back and punchy low down.
Quite why Land Rover abandoned the proven strong, robust, lightweight, relatively economical, capable platform escapes me, others have now filled that void and today’s LR’s are too expensive, unreliable and driven by wannabe3s
200Tdi was a good engine, but the 300tTdi was a jump ahead, but as LR usually does it F'ed it up
Move the engine over the front axle for better traction, easy access to bell housing bolts, moved the turbo so you could access the starter when (not if) it goes wrong.
The ladder frame was a nasty idea - with having bolts from the adaptor cover ( flywheel housing) you could not access the rods to change rings, bearings or pistons
300Tdi bad points - timing belt wear - belt was set too tight, and the guides were in the wrong place
P gasket - leaked because the housing was not strong and expansion and contraction wore the paper seal - addressed by a metal gasket
Poor head gasket - addressed by the metal shim gasket much later
Poor cooling system - what a mistake!
In 1984, they had the Isuzu 3.9 turbo fitted to the Australian Defenders - best engine LR never fitted to their line-up - could have saved us all those woes!
Bl@#dy hell Mike.
What octane are you running on?
Its great that its all coming together.
Missed church again?
Do you get a rest when the snow hits or have you some a winter project?