Land Rover - Complicated crankshaft install - Discovery TDV6 - stress for Toyota drivers - Episode 4 

If only Land Rover took such great care while building their engines as you do fixing them.

Christian and Vera fantastic video and presentation as always great entertainment I think everyone will agree in the uk 🇬🇧 love the videos 😃❤️

After Christian/Vera rebuild, the LR engine will be better than new.. Impressive perseverance and detail.🇩🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪

Just love the detail being an ex Technician. Always interesting to see how different people do the same job. Have to say I gently disagree over lubricating main cap bolts and contact faces (indeed any torqued bolt). If specialist bolts like ARP are used then follow their instructions but lubing the threads will drastically affect the torque applied (ie it will be higher than if torqued dry). Personally I always fitted bearings dry and then added lube but its just choice. I never used the fancy 'assembly paste' and have (as you did) always used what we call 'Hypoy 80' diff oil right from the first Lotus Twin Cam engine I rebuilt. It has great stiction and has no detergent additives like a multigrade engine oil so will aid running in. A specialist racing engine builder here in Suffolk did some some work for me on a 1098 Mini engine with a BMW K Series bike head that I am building and one of the older guys said most of the specialist paste smells like Hypoy 80! I reckon this will be one of the best TDV6 engines running when its finished. Superb attention to detail.

Congratulations on getting that crank in all to tolerance and rotating so nicely, quite a milestone! Interesting and entertaining content as ever, so as always thank you and best wishes from the UK

Excellent videos .I admire you knowlage and skills . Im shocked by how many vids are on these engines . I have a Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon 4.2 24v TD straight six . 270k miles ,my toolbox has got cobwebs over it as I dont use my tools any more . 3,4,500k untouched no problem for these engines . One owner has nearly 800,000 miles on his .Toyota is the best . Please get one .

Well Christian and Vera, as a fellow engine builder of vintage Honda motorcycle engines I congratulate you on your diligence on building this engine. Without doubt you have gone through every step for this engine to last Fabien for many years to come. Excellent work it's what the LR community needed, as always excellent video. If this engine fails we all go out and buy Toyota's 🤣

Great video! Veras comedic timing is superb! Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic video Christian and Vera...well done to Vera to remind him to clean out the oil galleries after polishing...I have rebuilt engines of all types and sizes in the 70s-80s... but I have never seen so many issues with these Land Rover crankshafts...thanks for sharing your experiences as even an old mechanic like me is still learning...👍👍👍

Guten abend Christian and Vera 😀 What a fantastic way too spent the evening in my lorry watching the most entertaining and valued engine rebuild on RU-vid 👍🏻 I feel for Fabian as it's his Land Rover that gave way but what a awesome video this is making 😂 100 % full of information with fantastic fun thrown in especially Vera's toothbrush lol 😂 Cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧

Complicated is the Word Fabians engine is in Good hands keep it up Christian and Vera OMG.

Truly captivating, absolutely no chance I’m ever going to attempt this, but wonderful to see this feat of complicated engineering. Keep the videos coming!!!…. Please!

Great video Christian and Vera I am amazed at all those measurements my Sunday evening wouldn't be the same without your videos thanks😄😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I am in the process of renovating an old house! It will be nothing compared to this! I can only say! 'Well done!'

Christian, Fabian has a great friend in you. You have put in so much work. I would trust you to rebuild my engine any time.

Very informative and entertaining at the same time. It looks like Christian might get a new torque wrench under the tree, while Vera gets a new toothbrush. Lol. The Discovery journey is good for both of you. Imagine how boring life would be without them. 👍🏻🙏🏽🦘

Brilliant as always. There seems to be a lot of misinformation, fortunately your both clued up to figure the correct information. 👍🏻👍🏻

Fascinating watching how technical this is!! Fabian is lucky having you to rebuild his engine. I love your sense of humour too! Keep up the good work.

Very good and clean job

Once again, I am learning so much. Thank you Vera & Christian. Best wishes.

Dear Christian and Vera, that's a clean workshop. It's either a great example of good practice [your need to keep things orderly] -- or OCD. Whatever the reason, your workshop looks great. Best wishes, John in the UK

Hallo from england, very entertaining , Christian i love your comments very funny with the usa, twang you sound a bit like Arnie.and Vera you seem full of joy and very smiley. they say that German folk our born with a engineering gene! but German food not so (sausage potatoes?) keep up the good work. bless u both🔊🔊🙌

Fantastique travail, j'ai rarement vue un niveau de compétence et de qualité aussi aboutie, chez soi dans son garage, bravo et merci pour les heures de montages!!

The crankshaft polishing looks like a good workout 🏋️‍♀️

I really don’t understand it all but I am fascinated. Really loving this series. Keep up the great work V&C.

I'm in envy of your garage, tools and engineering prowess! Three ingredients that come in handy for landrover ownership! That plus enthusiasm!

Great, another installment in the TDV6 saga. Thank you for making this!

Best couple 💑 of the year! Great information & video! Love it, love it! Love it!

Another superb mechanical education, from a well educated practical mechanical engineer, plus his charming adorable wife, Christian and Vera, l feel like yr a best friend, apart from our mutual love of the Discovery vehicle. Only drawback is since following, lv started to have heart palpitations just fearing l might have heard any noises on my engine away from the norm.

Toyota driver here, watching with morbid curiosity! :)

A genius idea of polishing the crank using a rope with the lathe BUT at your own risk! Please take care.

Another very educational video. Not that I would ever attempt a rebuild myself but very interesting to see all the steps involved.

I currently have a rr sport on my lift with body removed holding me up from doing any other jobs and it has 360k on it and I suspect it is the original engine.......! May well explain the rattling noise on start up and the two completely defunked chain tensioners on both banks ......! They really are great fun to work on....! Never a dull moment!

Re: avoiding oil delivery problems in bottom end. In addition to the restriction of the cam galleries, "radius" the oil holes axially only (use chainsaw type stone matching gallery width, with lead in toward rotation direction). As a last resort, cross drilling provides optimal oiling throughout the rpm range, or full groove main brgs.. A higher pump pressure might be necessary, with HV or pressure spring change. Am sure you're aware already. Nice job on the polishing Christian.. and Vera !

Increible minuciosidad en tu trabajo , eres un gran mecánico, el mejor para mi , después de ver muchos otros reparando el land rover discovery3. Un saludo desde Marbella ( España ).

Really enjoying this rebuild, just hope my 2013 Discovery 4 TDV6 3.0L never requires one of these. 👍🇿🇦

As engineers the only thing which sets us apart from everyone else is our willingness to apply extreme attention to detail. We'll done!

Christian and Vera your such a pleasure to watch and fabulous entertainment as always. Keep them videos coming 😊❤

I love you guys! This has been one of the longest weeks of my life waiting for this video!

Wow what a humor the too of you have briliant. still laughing about Christians comment that he has 10 fingers. Keep on going.

Well now we are sure its running tigher tolerances and better assembled than in LR factory 🏭 massive congrats guys its big job to under take 👏

HELLO VERA AND CHRISTIAN, I AM FROM RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASIL. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU AND I AM A FAN OF YOUR GREAT WORK AND VIDEO, I WILL BUY MY FIRST LAND ROVER LR3 HSE DIESEL, THANKS TO YOU,THANKS FROM THE HEART. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS ENGINE TO BE IN PLACE, WITH EVERYTHING WORKING RIGHT, A BIG AND STRONG HUG FROM THE CARIOCA, LONG AND PROSPEROUS LIFE...

Thank You Vera and Christian for such detailed descriptions of engine rebuild aspects. I already rebuild TDV6 engine twice and still have two on the table waiting to be finished (no I am not a mechanic - just doing it for fun). At the moment I have two Discovery 3 and one of them is during swap for M57 engine from BMW. Have a nice week and see you next Sunday.

great work. Mine is in its natural state, with the body off looking for a mystery OIL leak.. At the shop they told me they absolutely need to take the body off to determine the exact location, now they tell me the can't find it and since the body is off they cant start the engine to check.. :) Still I am happy with the car even tough I only did 300 km from the dealer and another 200 to the specialized LR shop.. :) Owning an LR is never boring.. Anyway this I know will be very expensive and now I talking with the dealer about some expenses to be reimbursed..

Once again a most enlightening and amusing video ! Thank you for this great nightshift entertainment :)

Fascinating. Good application of engineering and common sense.

All I can say is Wunderbar what a great vlog so very interesting, well done Vera & Christian. 👍

Superb start to the rebuild, I also thought to oil the bolts would lead to overtorquing but note that you did not go to the full 90degree,so that may help. Real patience and attention to detail,thank you both for Sunday treat as usual. Roll on next week!

Please continue to make these videos, truly superb and inspirational...

"Vera's toothbrush is really distributing this really well" ...... LOL. Another excellent video guys, I learnt a lot.

Hi Christian + Vera, I have my own Discovery 3 and can relate to all the work you have done so far. I gave up taking it to the Landrover dealer, each visit seemed to be Euro1000 plus each time. I am currently doing the Exhaust crossover pipe. Land rover quoted Euro2400 for body off and pipe replacement, unbelievable. Nearly finished now, had to take gearbox off. I wish Toyota would do a land rover crate swap engine. Really enjoy your videos, please remember to fit a new Impulsgeber, Kurbelwelle CKP with trigger ring. Its a must that you use the landrover special tool Sealey VS231 Kurbelwelle Sensor Trigger Rad Installation Für Jaguar, Land Rover to get the timing correct. Keep up the good work. Regards from Soest NRW.

MINI engines few years ago had problems with axial play on crankshaft because they saved some money on making thrust bearing faces only on upper part of bearing (block). And the bearing wear totally in few thousands km. And then was a technical campaign and recall for installation of modified thrust bearings with faces on both bearing parts. Have replaced them allot. About bolt lubrication - usually oil is specified in repair manual because torque moment is calculated and tested according to lubricant. In some situations they ask to lubricate and wipe oil from the bolts, in some they ask not to lubricate because bolts are already coated. As an industrial mechanic mostly we use Molykote on thread and contact face as required.

A couple that builds engines together stays together 😅 great video

Christian doctor of Discovery 3 🙌

I watch you from the Uk you guys are brilliant 🤩

Great video. Even the boring part was interesting. I enjoyed the entire video, very entertaining. It must be frustrating when you have conflicting documentation sources. Also, your friend Rob sounds like a really cool guy who has learned to follow directions well, so the $450 bolt/import expense was probably your fault.

Attention to detail top-notch, excellent work, you work well together, what a team.

Excellent video, as always. Don't let the heath and safety elf watch you polish a crankshaft.

I'm literally in awe

Thank you both for a very informative and enjoyable video. I am looking forward to the next instalment of this rebuild.

WoW! I must say, lucky Fabian. I'm sure he will show his appreciation. Christian's manner to detail is impeccable. His standard is the highest achievable from my experiences. And Vera is the perfect companion for Christian. Just one thing... Have you thought about having an ultrasonic cleaner in your workshop? Or have I missed it. It has been a pleasure watching the video.

You two are the greatest.

Outstanding Christian!!

“Squirters make a big mess” 🤭 I see what you did there Christian 😆

Superb video, reminds me of when i rebuilt my 3.9 V8 LR engine, cam shaft died after 70,000km, oil ways to the rear of the block starving of oil killed of the tappets, fitted a different spring to increase the oil pressure, problem solved, engine has 330,000kms and still going strong, with 20/50w with added zddp. If only LR carried out better R&D we all wouldn't have problems like this.

Christian, fancy ruining Vera's washing line!! 😂😂

Christian: ''So we can't use this rope anymore'' Vera: Yah! I laughed so hard, very interesting video and a lot of fun.

Absolutely brilliant video 👍🏻, thanks to you both for all the excellent quality. This is a absolute pleasure to watch.

Impressive crank lassooing guys.

The commentary is priceless 🤣

Great workshop, and vlog..... oh my god ! 🙂

I love these twos videos so funny and entertaining

These videos are fantastic

Great!! This is what I wait for on a Sunday ;-) Well done Christian, so methodical and precise with humour! Getting hooked on WD40 becomes a point of no return.....I recently expired a whole giant can of the stuff into my boot, foolishly I put a box into the boot via the rear passenger door and it rested upon the top of it!! At least the boot area won't go rusty anytime soon :-( Anyway, it was very kind of Vera to lend her toothbrush, I hope she gives it a good rinse lol. Take care you two, I'll be waiting next week ;-)

Have to say I so look forward to your weekly upload, great content and even better banter 😆😂, but the tdv6 is really a delicate set up….keep up the great content guys👍

Amazing patience from you both. Another great and informative video!

Crazy man! Great stuff. Precision humour!

Hey duys, i love my Disco3... but watching your video i'm really thinking to move to a Toyota :-)

You DID remember to replace the core-plug at the front of the oil-gallery, right? We saw you drill a hole in it and then pull it out (11:25) so you could flush the oil gallery but I don't think we saw you fit a replacement. Never cease to be impressed by the standard of Christian's work. Anybody who's getting him to work on a project is lucky to have him. If I travel to Germany, do you suppose he could have a look at the oil leaks on my TD5 engine? ;-)

I have been following your video series my only comment is please number them in the correct order, other that that they are brilliant

Not many oh my gods in this next week get at least 10 in 😂😂 great job Christian 👍👍

This year, the waiting time for Christmas will be extra long, especially for FABIAN! (I'm guessing he's is hoping to have his Discovery all finished for Christmas.) Sehr gut video. I'm excited for your follow up video, hopefully next weekend.

making me laugh to think back to when I rebuilt an MGF race car engine a couple of times because we screwed bits up in the build (lack of experience), then to only have the block explode a couple of laps in to the first race (practice/qual was strong). We didn't bother with so many bits, and I knew we should have! Nice to see what we neglected! But wouldn't have stopped the block from blowing up :/

Any way of liking this video more than once....!

My mate and his cousin are traveling down to the south of France next week to pick up his 2.7 discovery which has been parked up for nearly a year without use. They want to drive it home to the southwest of the UK so if they get any problems with the engine I’ll get them to drop it off for you!!

Loving the German/very organised and actually looking at spec approach....! Not like us paddy’s that just smash things together and hope for the best ...! 🤪

A true craftsman 🤙

I just popped into the Land Rover (independent) garage, and they had a broken crankshaft - the owner had driven the car in with a funny noise from the engine.......

brilliant......lots of attention to detail .keep up the good work

I love the attention to detail. I hope you are going to paint the engine some wacky colour before installing it back in the car,.......fire engine red is my suggestion. No one will ever see it but we will know!!!!

Thank you.

Nice job so fare, professor.

As usual, as a Toyota driver it was disturbingly stressful and nail-biting to watch your (as usual) excellent video. Don't forget to put Vera's toothbrush back, it's just engine oil. :-) This will possibly become the best assembled Landrover engine EVER! They won't get this level of attention to detail in the engine assembly plant, that's for sure.

Great video, again!

Excellent video very interesting.

Wow great job guys if the crankshaft ever needs replacing (OMG I hope not ) in my Disco 4 I’m definitely coming to see you , such care and precision unlike anything you would get in a dealers workshop unless they are working on there own vehicle of course, I hope all the rest goes back together ok this seemed really complicated to me. Best regards Richard ,East Grinstead UK.

I am really enjoying these videos - thanks - and I bet that engine will be better than new by the time Christian has finished it. - Vera, please make sure that Christian buys you a NEW toothbrush and does not just put the old one back. 😉 😂

Lovely work 👍👍

Vera/Christian. Just wanted to say yet another great video. Even though I know I would never have enough skill or knowledge to attempt such a gargantuan task, it was so entertaining to see you share this post. With us all. Thanks and cannot wait for the next instalment. Thanks guys👍

27:31 He's getting carried away with the minutiae of measurements, he's measuring the computer screen seemingly as a matter of subconscious instinct when speaking. This is no doubt due to the lack of proper tea in German workshops.