Copper washers in the gasket pack.

They are included in the 200TDi head set, injector return pipe sealing washers I presume the 300tdi uses similar - a little smaller than the now defunct 1/2p coin

Derek

And the 'O' ring goes where you say, on the crankshaft nose, behind the pulley. The pulley is chamfered on the inside rear edge and the 'O' ring is trapped in here to prevent oil seeping down the mating surfaces of the pulley and crankshaft. To replace it you have to draw off the pulley (don't lose the key).

Martin

Dont all gasket sets come with loads of surplus copper washers and o rings? :)

The bottom end set ive just put much of on the v8 has a bag of copper washers. Dont think i've seen one in use yet!

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I wonder why they would include them on the bottom end set, top end set yes for the injector seals, maybe one for the oil pickup pipe, one for the oil pressure switch.Sounds like somebody just left them on a checklist which gets blindly followed certainly not going to strip down the rangie to find out tho' Derek

Gasket sets can cover a huge range of applications - the "spare" bits in a 300Tdi top end set are all used when the engine in is a crop spayer (Tdi's were quite popular in abgricultural machinery).

Richard

there you go V8 lawn mower ;-) bet that goes like sh*t offa shiny shovel Derek

Blimey, V8 hand-held chainsaw!

The problem of copper washers hopefully has been resolved. There are more than I thought, each fuel banjo bolt has two, the fuel injectors have one each,etc, but the really mysterious one is what the paper one was for, I found the old one on the garage floor and do not know where it comes from. I need to know before I finish putting all back together!

Griff