MountainD
Technical Excellence Contributor
Since I have to tear into my 200TDI for a few reasons, mainly a crankshaft damper/woodruff key change along with rear and front main seals, but don't like a lot of down time AND one of the local mechanics not far from me was selling his project 200TDI since he has too many projects going, I decided to just take his pile of parts and build it up.
The engine seems nice--it is in pieces and I will go through everything, but it is a 12L (Disco) and has the 12L front cover (which I will sell) and he has the lower mounted 300TDI manifold and turbo (which I will also be selling) that you see in these pictures. He has a lot of black oxcide grade 8 bolts accumulated that he was going to use to make it look nice so I will go through all that too. Best of all he has a good 200TDI head along with it. The pistons all look great, the pushrods are straight, the glow plugs are already out (it had only 1 injector, but I'll sort all that stuff out anyways). No broken bolts, deck looks flat and cylinders look nice. Overall, thinks seem solid but I'll be mic'in everything and doing the to do list as you would on any engine rebuild. Really, I just love becoming intimate with all the mechanicals of my trucks and have rebuilt most engines for my rovers except a 200TDI (or any diesel) so this will be fun for me. The parts below are just loosely bolted on from when I bought it--tear down begins tonight . For $700 for everything, well, I just couldn't resist. I'll be rebuilding my 11L original motor after this and keeping it around to drop back in as I really like having the "numbers match" of a defender and the 11L in lieu of the 12L, but I am not worried about when I do that. That will be "someday". I frankly like the 200TDI engines.
But I can use a little helpful advice! Particularly on any advice steps that will save me grief--and any seals that I know may be better than another!
I know to use the Dowty Rear Main Seal. Check. Will do.
How about T-Seals? Any particular one better than another? Head gasket brand? (measuring the piston crown, it looks like it will probably be a 3-hole gasket)
I have shied away from britpart. Most my experience with aftermarket has me leaning toward Bearmach when possible but again, 100% open to suggestions. Most my rebuild experience has been related to 3.9/4.0/4.2/4.6 and LS styles...
Planning to get a lot of my stuff from Turner as, frankly, I trust them and their experience with 200TDI's, but again, up to suggestions/vendors!
I'll post full notes and progress as I start moving and ordering things!
The engine seems nice--it is in pieces and I will go through everything, but it is a 12L (Disco) and has the 12L front cover (which I will sell) and he has the lower mounted 300TDI manifold and turbo (which I will also be selling) that you see in these pictures. He has a lot of black oxcide grade 8 bolts accumulated that he was going to use to make it look nice so I will go through all that too. Best of all he has a good 200TDI head along with it. The pistons all look great, the pushrods are straight, the glow plugs are already out (it had only 1 injector, but I'll sort all that stuff out anyways). No broken bolts, deck looks flat and cylinders look nice. Overall, thinks seem solid but I'll be mic'in everything and doing the to do list as you would on any engine rebuild. Really, I just love becoming intimate with all the mechanicals of my trucks and have rebuilt most engines for my rovers except a 200TDI (or any diesel) so this will be fun for me. The parts below are just loosely bolted on from when I bought it--tear down begins tonight . For $700 for everything, well, I just couldn't resist. I'll be rebuilding my 11L original motor after this and keeping it around to drop back in as I really like having the "numbers match" of a defender and the 11L in lieu of the 12L, but I am not worried about when I do that. That will be "someday". I frankly like the 200TDI engines.
But I can use a little helpful advice! Particularly on any advice steps that will save me grief--and any seals that I know may be better than another!
I know to use the Dowty Rear Main Seal. Check. Will do.
How about T-Seals? Any particular one better than another? Head gasket brand? (measuring the piston crown, it looks like it will probably be a 3-hole gasket)
I have shied away from britpart. Most my experience with aftermarket has me leaning toward Bearmach when possible but again, 100% open to suggestions. Most my rebuild experience has been related to 3.9/4.0/4.2/4.6 and LS styles...
Planning to get a lot of my stuff from Turner as, frankly, I trust them and their experience with 200TDI's, but again, up to suggestions/vendors!
I'll post full notes and progress as I start moving and ordering things!