Just been told that the timing on my 200TDI is 1 tooth off but when they put it back to the timing it should be then the car won't start - they reckon a problem with the pump.
Does anybody have any idea what the heck might be going on here, and what a possible solution would be?
P.
What was the problem with the vehicle in the first place?
A diesel will either not run or hardly run with the pump a tooth out so I'm guessing that it was originally ok even if the marks appeared wrong. This won't be the first set of incorrect pump timing marks I've seen.
Throw the belt on it as it originally was then time the pump properly - if it can be timed to spec like this then I'd just reassemble and drive it.
Yes, it's one tooth out from where it was. :-)
Did it run well enough before the spanner monkeys were let loose on it? If so, get them to move the pump back to where it was.
I'd agree with that. I had a cavalier that was aid to be out but one tooth either way from where it should have been and it just about ran, sounded like someone shaking bolts in an empty biscuit tin. TonyB
In message , Paul S. Brown writes
Are the people changing your belt LR specialists?
If it was running ok before the belt change then it should run OK after!
The pump timing is easy to set up if you have the right timing pins and there should never be any doubt whether it is right or not.
It was in for a timing belt replacement (162k - never had a belt in the
50k I've owned it - didn't feel like taking chances) and they called me to say it was a tooth off on the timing.However it wouldn't start when it was bang on on the timing and they thought it was a pump fault that they couldn't touch.
P.
Steve Parker Landrover who I got a few recommendations on here.
OK yes, but it had been having some odd problems with climbing levels of black smoke and dropping power for a while which may actually have been down to the fuel filter which I discovered hadn't been changed in a long, long, long time.
P.
In message , Paul S. Brown writes
Well they should know what they are talking about.
a clogged fuel filter should not give you black smoke but an air filter would.
I would guess that have offered to have your pump checked out by a specialist?
Could it be possible that whoever fit the previos belt got it wrong and adjusted the pump timing to compensate? I would check the adjustment slots on the pump for marks
Icky
On or around Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:30:46 +0100, "Paul S. Brown" enlightened us thusly:
If they've reset the timing belt side of the timing, the pump is now out of time, if it was adjusted previously: If the pump has been adjusted to get it to run right with the belt one tooth out (and also the pump timting pulley and the cam timing pulley, by inference) then puttign the belt on "correct" will effectively move the pump off time. You then eed to retime the pump.
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