Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8069
How about a photo of one that’s been done properly for us lesser mortals It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
3rd Aug 2018 4:34 pm
Iceman08
Member Since: 22 Sep 2014
Location: Hereford
Posts: 2284
This is roughly where the tab should be, its the only one I can find at the moment. Just look at the square cut out, it should line up with a notch on the alloy part of the tensioner.
Flack
3rd Aug 2018 5:06 pm
Discomadness
Member Since: 19 Jan 2015
Location: Caerphilly
Posts: 2256
Flack wrote:
The belt tensioner is 180 out, they have tensioned it clockwise instead of anti clockwise, it was like a piano string even after all this time, far to tight.
Belts last done by a LR Main Dealer
Flack
I win ! I said upside down ! What do I win ? Jarrod
Current : D3 2007 HSE - AKA the lemon
-beanie grille
-detango with led bulbs
-club body off rebuild. TWICE.
Member Since: 06 Oct 2006
Location: KENT
Posts: 4645
And everyone gets excited about a full main dealer service history
This is why I use an Indy on mine who actually cares
3rd Aug 2018 5:27 pm
davidhem
Member Since: 21 Feb 2013
Location: Kenilworth
Posts: 710
Totally agree, I picked my D3 because it went to a reputable indie after 60k, certainly my local
Main dealers are not the best, my brother once had his D2 serviced by them. When he got back to the office I noticed a trail of oil down the driveway, they had not tightened the sump plug and it had slowly leaked all the new oil.
Never went there again.David
3rd Aug 2018 5:38 pm
Discomadness
Member Since: 19 Jan 2015
Location: Caerphilly
Posts: 2256
Flack wrote:
Flack
That’s why I’d never set foot in a main dealer.Jarrod
Current : D3 2007 HSE - AKA the lemon
-beanie grille
-detango with led bulbs
-club body off rebuild. TWICE.
3rd Aug 2018 6:08 pm
Iceman08
Member Since: 22 Sep 2014
Location: Hereford
Posts: 2284
How difficult is this job for someone useful with spanner’s but with zero knowledge of engines and their goings on?!
3rd Aug 2018 8:04 pm
vanpeebles
Member Since: 20 Mar 2018
Location: North East
Posts: 150
I just did mine, not having ever done a D3 before, it took 4 days just pottering away at home. But half of the time was making a tool for the fan, getting some torx sockets for the crank, and machining the crappy locking tool to fit the flywheel.
The back one is like working through a letterbox, I was amazed the cover came out that gap
14th Aug 2018 11:02 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4399
I just went back to the photos I took of the belt change I did recently to make sure!
Yes, I got it right. Phew!Richard
D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.
Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone
I just did mine, not having ever done a D3 before, it took 4 days just pottering away at home. But half of the time was making a tool for the fan, getting some torx sockets for the crank, and machining the crappy locking tool to fit the flywheel.
The back one is like working through a letterbox, I was amazed the cover came out that gap
When Flack did mine, it looked like he was doing key-hole surgery !
14th Aug 2018 11:33 am
Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
Posts: 10865
Sorry Flack you must have done hundreds wrong as a Main Dealer is never Wrong
14th Aug 2018 11:38 am
vanpeebles
Member Since: 20 Mar 2018
Location: North East
Posts: 150
Hardware17 wrote:
vanpeebles wrote:
I just did mine, not having ever done a D3 before, it took 4 days just pottering away at home. But half of the time was making a tool for the fan, getting some torx sockets for the crank, and machining the crappy locking tool to fit the flywheel.
The back one is like working through a letterbox, I was amazed the cover came out that gap
When Flack did mine, it looked like he was doing key-hole surgery !
I love how you read the Haynes and the guides online, it simply states the cover comes out of this gap, you look at it, and can't even comprehend it.
14th Aug 2018 11:40 am
dgardel
Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: Greater Venice
Posts: 2025
From the Workshop Manual:
Flack wrote:
This is roughly where the tab should be, its the only one I can find at the moment. Just look at the square cut out, it should line up with a notch on the alloy part of the tensioner.
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