300Tdi head replacement Part 1. Swapping parts, cutting valves and getting ready to fit.

[@williamhughes1925]

Mike I haven’t got a tdi but I love watching your videos for the old school tips and tricks. Can’t wait for the next one highly addictive. Even if you have done something similar before, everyone is different 👍.

[@GregPalmer2]

Good man young felah,because of your clips i was able to fix a homeless gentleman's land rover county,his wheel bearings needed adjustment because he had tried to adjust them himself,the best thing was its was easy because that's the way the old land rovers were built.

[@peterpeterson9903]

Is he homeless as he spent all his money on his Land Rover?

[@peterpeterson9903]

I do love un-boxing new parts!

[@RussellRF900Rrv]

Another well written dialogue & video presentation top Mark's again Mike

[@bigm383]

Love the Playtex reference.

[@BritannicaRestorations]

I knew someone would get it!

[@leighriley6277]

Oooo.... AMC head..... A thing of beauty 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@GlesgaNews]

Thanks Mike, Been wondering when you were going to start the rebuild looking forward to this. As an apprentice we were always told to lap the valves in... Blisters lol ...GN

[@BritannicaRestorations]

An old vehicle fitter told me not to go too wild lapping in as they will just be as bad after a few hundred miles!

[@johndiaz7240]

Always enjoy and learn something watching you .

[@eliotheasman5378]

Hi Mike very well done as always very great help many thanks Eliot

[@darrenballis9695]

I may have dont the wrong thing, replaced valves , guides, springs but not th sealing rings, thinking I should have done the rings

[@josephparker7278]

Mike there is so much knowledge in these videos. first off thank you! secondly I am new to the game and just purchased a 1987 110 ffr rhd. I am trying to find where my leak is coming from. there is a small small bit of engine oil coming from the head gasket but I am more concerned about the amount of transmission fluid seeping from somewhere. thanks again! -JP

[@BritannicaRestorations]

What colour transmission fluid?

[@josephparker7278]

@@BritannicaRestorations its pinkish/orange ish? it seams relatively new oil. (probably topped off/changed at the dealer before I received the truck)

[@faisalal-osaimi3856]

Sweet as always 😍👍

[@666DW]

Built many of those cylinder heads during my time employed at Land Rover.......think it was around 20 or so an hour!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

That is impressive! That's 1 every 3 minutes!

[@666DW]

Britannica Restorations Ltd I’ll correct myself, the engine assembly line rate was 20 engines built per hour but 3 men could build a sub assembled cylinder head at 30 per hour. Sub assembled rocker shafts, ready to fit to cylinder head in 60 seconds. To fit a cylinder head to a short engine including head bolts, gasket, pushrods, valve caps, rocker shaft and fixed in 60 seconds, although the time given to do the aforementioned task was about 3 minutes🤫

[@BritannicaRestorations]

No wonder they had so many head problems

[@666DW]

Britannica Restorations Ltd what are the problems associated with the cylinder head out of interest? I am aware of the warping and cracking out in the field, but that would not be a production issue.

[@faroukwasswa3588]

The sound of a new well installed cylinder head full Revs feel good. 😁😁😁 I feel good everytime you rub oily hands onto your overall because that's what I do. 👇🏿👇🏿💪🏿💪🏿 I opened my brake vacuum pump that developed funny noise after afew years from new, opened it from the shaft side because it's very hard to put back the rivets if you did from the rivets side, I put a very small shim in form of a washer, minimize the gap the shaft moves, put it back and it performs even better than it did when brand new. Land rover, land rover. I dream land rover when I doze 😎😎.

[@federicoacker5672]

You know, once upon a time a very famous Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset, defined European people like this: The Anglo-Saxons: drunks and slow, the Italians: sensual and concupiscent and Spanish: arrogant and proud. So here we got something that Spanish people truly could be Proud of. Personally I have descendant from a mix of all those people (1/2 Anglo-saxon, 1/4 Italian, and 1/4 Spanish), so I hope if some day a had to do a job like this, better I'll be sober, not in underwear, and not to much proud...that could lead me to make a mistake! Cheers! (Salud!)

[@lukeevans9698]

Thanks!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Welcome!

[@NaziHampster]

Is there not a way to make a better seal/grip for the loose little valve seals ??

[@BritannicaRestorations]

I have in the past, banged new seals into a socket to make them tighter

[@NaziHampster]

@@BritannicaRestorations Got you. Like crimping, sort of.

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Yes

[@willdedoo6529]

Do you guys have a video of the Head being removed while still in the engine bay? I can only find one walkthrough of it and the pictures are all expired

[@davidwoods80]

Mike, do you know of an easy way to test the compressed strength of valve springs? I understand that springs will lose force over time. Hope this makes sense.

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Well I could think of a fancy way to test them, but I have no data to work out what they should be

[@bigm383]

There was an engineering workshop up the road, when I was a kid. They used to do this on new Springs to make packs with the same tension for blueprinting engines. That was back when we had engineering workshops and blueprinted engines.

[@lincspoacher5071]

Very good content as usual, but one quick question where do you get the lead telltales from? I can’t find any over in Blighty but my eldest daughter is in Vancouver if you sell them via your shop, she could post some over to me. Sorry to bother you and thanks for the videos, all the best

[@BritannicaRestorations]

I will let you know as the machine shop is down at the moment

[@lincspoacher5071]

Britannica Restorations Ltd Thanks for that all the best

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Try here - these are better temperature-indicators.co.uk/products/engine-check

[@googlegok9637]

Bearmach has a new style and old style tdi300 head , what is the difference/best?

[@BritannicaRestorations]

The 'new style' is a HS2.8 style head and has an additional cooling hole in the rear of the head, however the 300Tdi block does not have this hole so save your money! Mike

[@SierraEire]

Be careful around Land Rovers Mike, you might catch the car owner virus!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

That's a good 'un!

[@fionanokelly]

"Spanish People.." We are not that bad Mike. I can assure you, not that bad at all!!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

I know - only having a bit of fun!

[@liamburton4922]

Where do you get your 300tdi engines .. were they imported into Canada from factory ?

[@BritannicaRestorations]

There were no Diesels imported into Canada so everything is imported - I no longer supply but I can rebuild customers engines

[@liamburton4922]

Britannica Restorations Ltd well I’m from Ireland is all I could get you a supply if interested

[@peterpeterson9903]

​@@liamburton4922 Oh yeah, an Irish man with a "supply" of Land Rover parts...

[@dietmarw]

Out of interest, Mike. What are you using in your ultrasonic? Just water or do you put something special into it?

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Water and industrial oven cleaner at 80c

[@buzzwor]

Mike out of interest what did the new head set you back?

[@BritannicaRestorations]

www.turnerengineering.co.uk/ldf500180-300tdi-cylinder-head-bare-c2x21885992 +£100 shipping

[@buzzwor]

Thank you

[@malcolmyoung7866]

@@BritannicaRestorations That's not a bad price for a cylinder head...

[@BritannicaRestorations]

This had no valves or springs etc and the was VAT free as it was for export

[@gonesailing]

I was waiting for a paranoid android to show up, his head the size of a planet 🌎

[@ivarwb4115]

"110, the most pathetic voltage in the world"!

[@johndiaz7240]

Very funny

[@bigm383]

It begs the question, why?

[@darrendean21]

@@bigm383 Because it lacks umph!!

[@bigm383]

@@darrendean21 I meant, why have 110 volt at all? Makes no sense to us 240 volt Australians.

[@darrendean21]

@@bigm383 because it's safer, I believe it's actually two 55V lives ... so you only get a 55v shock if one should go to ground or you touch one.

[@GrumpsBarn]

ooooooooo......SHINY!!!!!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

Just like a real one!

[@GrumpsBarn]

@@BritannicaRestorations Lmao 😂😂

[@lukeevans9698]

Thanks!

[@BritannicaRestorations]

No problem!