I Saved A Fortune By Replacing The Timing Belt & Water Pump On My Land Rover Freelander 2 SD4 

A very good performance and presentation. Keep up the good work.

Well done brother. I been a mechanic for 19 years and I still get the pre start jitters when done cam belt. Only thing on them belts I don’t do is the starter motor removal and pin in the flywheel I just mark the crank pulley and it’s always worked for me.

Top man. Probably the most definitive “how to” on RU-vid for this. Used it to change mine yesterday. Saved myself about £500. Thanks.

Well done fella, not a lot of people would tackle this job and you made it look easy 👍 .

Well done! Not an easy job. I’m gonna do it on my jaguar xf. Same engine. I enjoy this vid because it is very well explaned. Greetings from Belgium.

I did mine at 200,000km its now at 230,000km and no problems. No garage wanted to do it. These are great cars to work on and its videos like yours that allow people to save money and do something productive. Well done. BTW at 200,000km the old belt looked just like the new one.

Great work you must feel a sense of achievement doing it yourself well done 👍

Thank you for the video, very helpful, this will help me to do the job myself.

Well done another belt sorted . One of my pet hates working on cars is stud adhesive (Locktite) I know it serves a purpose but a tight bolt is a bloody site tighter to undo with that on it. Same as a torque setting for a bolt then turn it through whatever degrees (Maximum yield stretch bolts)much rather old fashioned torque it up job done lol.

You handled that Like a boss 👊

Sound. Good on you. Be careful underneath when loosening the crankshaft bolt. Perhaps a quality impact tool would be a good thing to consider for safety's sake. I had a 2A Land rover sitting on me, and it stings a bit.!!

Well done excellent video, very good description,again well done

The only thing that you haven't done is trust yourself, ace, very meticulous, Thank you!!.

Outstanding work.

Great job. I have an SD4 in my 2015 Disco and will use your video. Thanks for posting! 👍

Great video fella. Love how your channel is growing and you are getting more confident. 🤟🏻

Excellent instructive video, I’m considering a Freelander 2 in the spring (2022) and this is just the thing to reassure me if it needs a cam belt I can have a go myself, thanks Steve..

Well done excellent video when I had my fl2 had to the garage to do timing belt was going to do it myself couldn’t t loosen crankshank bolt .

good job done, I wouldnt want to tackle a job like that, you earn your money well done.

I'm surprised at how easy you made it look but my local garage won't touch it. I'd have thought any time served mechanic would take on the job with ease. Great video very informative.

Great job fella well done. Keep up the good work 👍

geart stuff and well done good step by step info and a few laughs 👍

fair play to you for doing that timing belts scare me too much to go wrong but excellent content keep it up

Thanks pal! Got one to do in a new-to-me Freelander "3" which had the same engine as the F2 for a few months ;-)

Hi I'm new subscriber and I have watched many channels but you are the best Chanel I have seen you have shown perfect pictures of every part of changing the cam belt I cannot fault this video Sir just brilliant we not stuff 😜😜😜 Phil in stoke

Superb video with all the information needed. I have to change the timing belt on my 2015 Range Rover Evoque 2.2 SD4 ( the same engine as your Freelander 2) in the next couple of weeks. This has been really helpful

Well done mate first time for everything have a merry Christmas

Very good informative video 👍

Well done will be a video wich will be watched many times in years to come the type of thing to get you a pension from you tube 😀 👍👍

Great work mate an great video 👌

Excellent job, the video have helped so much to do my own timing belt replacement, I've worked hard but I got it. Thank you. So, by the way, my freelander have that plastic cover missing, that one to access the pulleys... Please, do you know that one part number?

Cheers for sharing this sir! Will do this next week, first time on this car, and this gives me confidence to get it done properly and fast! (Wáy faster than finding everything out myself) 🙏🏼 Cheers!

Another great video!!! Perfect, thank you.

Another great video and well done your smashing through these timing belts 💪🏻💪🏻

Congratulations on reaching 3,160 subscribers and well done for all your hard work this year

Absolutely superb sir.exellent video Work too.just subbed,keep up the great vids

Well Done Leon ,great work

Try warming the crankshaft bolt, to soften the thread locking compound should make it a little easier on yourself.

Well done for persevering. My local LR specialist has only quoted me £175 to do it on a TD4 so I shall get them to do it.

Well done very good informative video keep up good work.

Take. My hat of to you chap. Brilliant. It's great for your confidence. Great video. Keep it going mate. See anymore audis to repair yet then?. Look forward to next video. Merry Christmas buddy.

Hi great informative video and Hats Off to you for taking on a job like that with a lot more Care and Diligence you would of got from being Ripped Off at a named dealer that leaves half the bolts out. I do all my own servicing as I trust no one to work on my cars as they are all Cowboys so big cudos to you. Keep up the good work. Mike, Northern Ireland 👍👏🍻

Very commendable, well done👍. A truly inspiring video and it must have given you a huge amount of satisfaction knowing that you have saved loads of money. From start to finish how long did this take you (not including breaks and waiting for new bolts)?

For reference the bolt in the crank should be 70nm and then a second tighten by 82 degrees of angle

Top job that pal 👊👊👊👊👊

Well done buddy. Great job done there. If you don't need that thousand you saved, I could put it to good use. Lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Roll on the next project.

That looked a real pig of a job, well done mate

Well done mate another good video.

Hats of for the timing task m8 it can be in the hundreds esp land rover

Have given you a big thumbs up

my 2011 sd4 says 10 years or 105,000 miles for timing belt, the other thing that needs doing at the same time is all the transmission oils and haldex etc, the auto gearbox oil needs replacing but it requires the oil level to be measured at a certain temp so needs specialist equipment

thanks have to do our jag f 2.2 this week

Nice video, so after two years is all well with the timing belt etc, bit worried that the water pump gasket was cardboard, i thought they wre metal? hopefully it's not failed and leaked.

Brilliant. Got the same job myself on a 2010 SD4 soon, it gets hammered doing forestry work and pulling log trailers along forest tracks! Did you try your impact wrench on the pulley bolt at all?

Great bit of 🎥.

Hi Leon merry Christmas to you and your family

Hi pal well done on tackling that. Just a little tip if you got the correct locking tools you dont need to tipex etc as there locked and going nowhere but understand its a bit of insurance.Also I would not have removed the starter i would have locked the cams then paint marked the crank sprocket to the engine casing installed the belt then turned the engine twice slowly to make sure ther is no interference align the crank reinsert your cam fuel pump lockers job done just watch on some cars there are no keyway in the sprockets but this saves you loads of time and as you did always turn the engine over slow twice to make sure there is no interference you can not go wrong.Oh and I have done hundreds if not thousands of belts being a mechanic and i still have a twitchy arse moment when turning that key lol good luck keep the vids coming love them.

Great job mate I'm in the process of finding someone to do the timing belt job on my Freelander 2 and no one will touch it you have made it so much easier than I thought it would be just about time and patience I guess with the locking tool even if it takes a while once they are set and locked in jobs a goodun going to tackle it myself now I think

Well done for a start for doing this job yourself but I'm at a loss as to how you saved over £1k. I just had this same job done on my freelander 2, cam belt and water pump changed at my local garage for just over £500 quid parts and labour. I avoid main dealer servicing like the plague.

Your going to lock the crank and the cam shaft ,just take your time and double check everything pics with your phone and you can't go wrong

It's a big job

👏👏👏🚙 congratulations well done

Well done - same engine as Mondeo Mk4/4.5, Galaxy & SMAX 2.2 👍

Great video. Your confidence is growing, you will be stripping gearboxes next. Going to do the same job next week so nice to get a taste of whats to come. You said your selling the Freelander, what will you do for delivery of salvage?

Good job, I've never done a timing belt before but more confident now 😊.... How many times did you turn the engine over after to check the timing?

Great job.. I'm about to do mine. Your video is a excellent reference.. What size bolts did you use to hold the flywheel locking tool in place?

Well done butt. Fairplay that's was more intense than an episode of eastenders.you did make me giggle a few times. 'I got to be honest I'm shitting myself' 🤣..Great work though. Way above my limits.

Balls of steel !! 🤣🤣

Do you have a link to where you bought the kit from? I am due to do mine and there are so many options

Nice job but how you do it on a jaguar 2.2 diesel xf with the engine stait? It is almost inpossible to remove the startermoter. The crankshaft bolt is also difficult to undo and again torck to 70nm + 80° because these is no room for a angel gauge.

Hi. Could you post a link to the crankshaft/camshaft locking tools, please? Cheers!!

If I can give one bit of criticism is you shouldn’t really be using the timing locking tools to help undo the crank bolt You could damage them

I'd not be able to put it back together 😂

Someone been checking the belt maby even main dealer , changed plugs on our Mazda 2 even though service history said they been done Mazda full history same plugs that it left the projection line, do it yourself and you know it's been done , when I worked on people's cars Always put the old parts on front seat so they could see them

over a grand wow how long did it take you did you turn the tap off on the rad

Loctite on crank bolt, heat gun on bolt head for few mins than wind it out

well done you

Good!

Oops 🤣 bolts all over

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Hello mate 👍

Hi Big Man. Another Epic Journey completed 👍. ps. It may of helped if you took off the coolant cap earlier, to release any vacuum, in the water system during coolant drain. This was a win win Cam belt change. Congratulations. See you in the next one. 👏👏

Crankshaft bolt should be 70nm then 60 degrees?

Is doing the belt on a td4 the same?

Get yourself a gun best tool I every bought

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A grand? Who quoted you that...land rover dealers are under 600 quid mate

Turbo engines don't like dirty oil a big no no , you have done a timing belt so long as you got the right info and tools , there is not a lot in them , vw want £1300 to change a cam chain , kiss my ass I will do it my self when weather improves I will buy the tools I need

First comment 🥳

Bit too much waffle

Well done mate first time for everything have a merry Christmas