I love your videos.. I am in the UK. I can see why the German thought processes makes your nation so brilliant at anything engineering. Seriously I watch all your videos and really enjoy your skill and humor. Please keep the channel alive. Thank you so much, Simon
Christian I love your channel. I ship pscan diagnostic tools from the UK to customers in the EU all the time. The actual problem is that six months after Brexit the EU introduced IOSS which is their cross border VAT collection regime. This requires all goods moving across borders to have VAT paid by the seller in any EU country. This introduces two problems for UK sellers 1. In the UK it's actually totally legal to have £100K annual sales and not be VAT registered at all, but that doesn't work for IOSS and 2. Because we are now out of the EU this would mean having a local presence in the EU to register for VAT inside the EU. There is a simple solution to this, but for some reason UK sellers just don't seem to understand. We have to use another company that's already VAT registered in the EU and get them to pay the VAT for us, and then the items go straight through customs (under the UK-EU trade deal) and get delivered with no hassle. Personally I use a company called Samos who are both a shipping company and handle the VAT for me (via Netherlands VAT office). There is a page about it on my pscan website. Us Brits just need to get a clue and stop using the traditional sxxxty service from DHL, UPS etc etc.
Yes, it's quite straight forward, but many companies can't be bothered, it seems. But this was also the case before Brexit sometimes. I have a business in Sweden, and wanted to buy something from Ireland. They said they don't do export. I told them it's not really export, as all they need to do is send without the VAT, and pay the extra postage. But no, they didn't want the 'hassle'.
@@kristofinportugal occasionally there are things that are not available in the EU. When this happens it is possible for UK sellers to sell things into the EU, but they need to do it the right way.
@@philip_christian yeah, I had that go wrong a number of times. Therefore I stopped buying all my parts from UK, indeed only the few things that are unavailable, also with the dealer...
When torquing cylinder head bolts,once the bolts have been tightened through all of the torque settings, I like to put a white dot onto forward most part of the bolt flange. Then when the bolts are tightened down to the specified angle you know, at a glance, that all of the bolts have gone through the required degree of rotation and you haven't missed one. I'm really enjoying the great videos.
One thing I was taught as a 1st year apprentice was to always pack a new oil pump with Vaseline to ensure fairly instant oil pressure on startup. I’ve had certain engines in the past that would not pickup oil until primed and this method has not failed me yet. By the way, love your work.. 👌
Love y'all's channel. I was sitting watching y'all build this engine and dropped I Do Cars name. I stopped and had to text him 🤣🤣. We gotta good laugh out of it. Im starting to work on tbe American Version in the F-150. The few that are out there are starting to need the major maintenances. Timing belts and oil pumps. Of course the customers think we are trying to rip them off by replacing the oil pumps.
😅👍We watched every one of his episodes. Customers should be required to watch his channel and see what happens if they do not maintain their cars.👌🙋♀️Vera
I always look forward to Sundays so i can watch your informative & learn a lot more from a perfectionist at work, even though i don't own a Land Rover lol
Great videos May I suggest the analysis of the problems getting genuine Land Rover parts from the UK to Germany is flawed and is not because the UK left the EU. The distance between the UK and the EU has not changed and the parts themselves remain the same. The difficulties you have are down to the regulations introduced by the EU in failed attempt by the EU to punish the UK for leaving. Keep up the good work.
How fast do you get EU spares into the UK? I've ordered once parts from Rimmer Bros and Fen Air and the shipping time to Vegas was surprisingly fast. This was pre-Covid, though. Update: Although, I do remember now that the package from Fen Air got left on a shelf at a local shipper's warehouse the vendor had to pick it up and re dispatched through a more reputable company. Lesson learned here is: do demand dispatch through one of those international shipping companies where tracking stays within their system and saves you a lot of headaches.
I ran into a American called James today in the Canadian Tire parking lot who has a very nice LR3 all kitted out. We were talking about how great your channel is for owners of these trucks.
My favourite moment is 20min, when Christian and Vera are both running the new, from factory lightly lubed cylinder head bolts down free hand. I imagine he’ll always do the finishing torquing. Bolts of that diameter and steel quality are under tension when properly installed. I contrast that with the head and block bolts on my Suzuki GT750 motor. Torque values are unremarkable and the bolts are routinely reused unless corroded. Astonishingly, they run through the coolant galleries. Because of this, they can be a source of coolant leaks. The single biggest problem on those motors is removing the one piece cylinder block, which more or less welds itself to the crankcase, usually requiring a 10mm thick steel puller plate to pull it off. I’m nowhere near the real world mechanic that you folks are, but I can follow very easily your excellent descriptions. Thank you! Mike
Which goes to show they need us more than we need them. All we need now is for a proper Brexit to be done and everyone especially the EU and our unelected government to act like grown ups.
@@jgn593 Seems to be a worldwide phenomenon and a push to buy new vehicles preferably EVs. Then, Christian and Vera would have more relaxing time in the hot tube instead wrenching on weekends on a LR FOMOCO product
In Japan at the moment on vacation, Toyota central. However, not a Landcruiser in sight on my first day, have seen 3 Landrover defenders, one of which was an OVERFINCH. Great video as always 😊.
I visited Japan many times with work. Obviously Japanese cars are everywhere so I did wonder why most of the people I met had bmw, Mercedes etc and most in left hand drive, it was explained as they were seen as exotic and much sought after led were prefered. Due to the kraken after 3 years those meds and BMWs sell very cheap.
Puzzled why you won’t let Vera have a snack. As Matt’s Off-road Recovery watchers you should know that a happy Vera makes an engine rebuild “11% more better”
I just bought a Australian Ford Everest v6 3.0 with this engine in and Ford did lots of mods including block changes and forged crank so my fingers are crossed. It’s also fitted to Ford ranger pickup V6.
Another interesting video, all work i could not undertake myself. But it does show if you pay to have work done why its going to cost so much. Congratulations to you both for an interesting and also humorous video.
Hello Christian and Vera, Yes postage from UK, takes a little longer, but you've got a bad chance of having to pay Customs as well. Enjoy watching your Videos and hearing Vera saying Oh my God
Brilliant as ever. That must be very tiring concentrating on reassembling the engine, filming everything, and then the pressure of editing to get a weekly video out. Never mind family life and work! Best wishes to you both. As for Brexit, a nightmare for us European focused Brits.
I hope one day, you will have a 5.0L v8 LR.. And it's motor needed work of course. So We could see a good, LR Time quality video. For all us guys in north America! But maybe you can't get them in Germany idk.. But that would be wonderful...We'll maybe just for the viewers..
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I'm António. Greetings from Lisbon - Portugal. Great channel you have
Christian's brain must be a hard drive, how you remember all these intricate nancies of JLR engines is mind-boggling, granted you have Vera to remind you, but even with a workshop manual there seems to be many many ways to trip up on those engines.
Hi Christian I must compliment you on your attention to detail and manufacturers specification , I think that you are more than a Mechanic by Profession , you are a very Professional man at your Job , Also I admire your lady for being so Enthusiastic about the job in progress , A couple little things im not sure about when you doing the assembly ? only some of the hydraulic lifters were replaced , and I would have liked to have the Injection Pump & the Injectors checked on the test bench , May be you have your own reasons , I dont want to be critical of your Professionalism , to me you are top man at your Job , my back ground Im a toolmaker in my younger days , left that job and I Have a garage and have being doing all what you are doing now semi retired still working mainly on Classic cars , Keep up the Good Work I appreciate attention to Detail and how it works , Regards to you Tim in Ireland
Hello Tim, our reasons or policy is: 1. work on a budget 2. no premature replacement of parts. The engine was running before and the ECU did give me the full Fuel pressure of 1650 bar. I did test this prior disassembly. A lifter is 7 Euro. Yes, looks like not much but it adds up. I kept the levers too and they have moving parts. 9 Euro each x 24. I want to show that it also makes commercials sense to repair such a car/engine. I would miss that goal big time if we don’t go wise about replacing parts. Then this would be an other RU-vid channel working on a budget „normal“ people can’t do. Christian
You go to all that trouble and don't grind the valves in 🤔. I'm a LR/RR specialist with 49 years of experience, taught old school and served my apprenticeship in a small country garage, and I'm not an armchair mechanic lol. Great video's guys 🙂👍
The reasoning was that all the seats and valves were perfectly clean and matched. But, with 10 soft followers after 17 years - I would have put all 24 new ones in. That's just me and I am nowhere near Christian's level 😊
@@mdshovel I agree, and after spending all that money, it seems a shame not to finish the job off properly. I'd have also would have had the heads refaced and checked the block for distortion. I always get the head and block skimmed when rebuilding an engine and would regularly see 10 thou taken off a block.
@@shimon2476 It seems a shame going to all that effort and expense just for a couple of hours grinding the valves in. It takes longer cleaning the valves Simon, if I'm honest.
Great video, loving this series. If almost half of the lifters were no longer satisfactory, why wouldn’t you just take the opportunity to replace the lot?
LR TIME I never seen you checking the tiny rubber valve on botton of oil filter house. Thats extremely vital component for oil pressure, since its easy slip out from its holder and also tend to crack if wrong type of oils used. (wrong oils can make rubber hard) Worth to check, since many engines what have problems with oil pressure, or spun the bearing, this valve have been found off its place.
I have worked out your cunning plan. Stock up on diesel vehicles and restore to excellent condition so you do not have to go down the EV route! Brilliant😊
Wonderful vid as always! FWIW seems to me Ford has never been able to get crank angle & trigger wheels worked out quite right. On the old gassers they had it press fit on the back of the harmonic damper, not on the fixed part either but on the dampered portion so when the damping rubber wore out you'd get all kinds of inexplicable crank trigger problems, crank sensor "failures", sporadic impossible to diagnose drivability issues, giving those not in the know a hell of a run for their money trying to diagnose why these things were happening. Early computerized diesels didn't have quite enough resolution to work with, later stuff such as with LR I think is trying to rely on too much resolution packed into too small of a trigger wheel OD in too overly complicated a package, though I'm not 100% sure what the gain would be. We love our LR's but sometimes we have to shake our heads 🤣
Agree. On many other engines you won’t even know that a crank position sensor is installed. And here it is like a high school science project solution. Christian
You two are such an amazing team, I could see how doing this could cause a divorce! 😂 Since your justified in burn out, perhaps you can throw out some work out videos, cause all of this is tough work. And you both are clearly in great shape! Don’t be afraid of showing the us “gun show” Vera. I’m sure plenty of women would be jealous 😊
love your vidieos just wanted to let you know a little step i do when doing head bolts i torque them to the proper torque them i put a line on the top of each head bolt all in the same direction so when i do the degrees part it is very easy to see if all the bolts are at the same degree
Extend that idea to an "commercial" engine rebuild/re-conditioners or those that just throw a crank with new bearings in a Jaguar/LandRover V6 on their garage floor 🙄
Thanks guys once again something fascinating about reassembling an engine especially when it’s done right! Btw brexit will be reversed I was on the march in London last week 😮
Good evening Vera & Christian 😊 You always make these videos so entertaining with great funny bits especially mentioning Brexit 🤣 I’m very sorry guys I voted stupidly for what has turned out to be a total mess 😢 I helped mess up the uk 🇬🇧 with my vote and have even ruined my daughter’s employment as she loved working in Majorca threw out the summer 😊 I hope you don’t hold this against me 🤔 Anyway we’re in Tenerife for 14 days enjoying some lovely sunshine ☀️ Take care and as always a big kiss for Vera xx
Hello. I have a friend with a Range Rover Sport 2016 3.0 tdv6 306hp. It suffered un engine fail, monday morning crank at 94k km. Rebuild engine without righting engine blok, just new crank, berings and so on. It failed again, start knoking after one month. This time total rebuilding at R1 with turkish crank. After 10k km the crank broke again. We suspect the crank quality was low this time. Wich type of crank is better in engine 30tdv6 restauration?
9:28 - from the diagram you showed earlier, it looks like the little ref hole is a little bit further advanced. That really sucks though, and I can only imagine how long it took to find out what the issue was!! Hope it was picked up before it all went back in the funbus!
Actually, Christian knew immediatly what was wrong. Like he said, the TDV6 does not need a lot to start. And since it got diesel, it must have been the signal. But I hope that will help futuer rebuilders. We get so many messages that one did a rebuild and the car won't start. 👍🙋♀️
Why not all new Hydraulic lifters in why its out ????? Just wondering thanks Guys love it all brilliant Engineer is Christian and you of course Vera lovely lady you are.
This is the owner of Discovery 4. Always be healthy and happy There's no key on the crank pulley? Is there a key on the cam pulley? If there is no crank pulley key, the crank pulley bolt must be fastened after timing alignment The exact timing?
The biggest act of political vandalism ever seen in the UK. You can't even send a gift to anyone in EU anymore without them getting a bill. German holidays, scenery, people, beer, food, autobahns, cleanliness, order, etc etc were fantastic before all this bollocks. Future generations will hopefully put this mess right. Great video, thank you both.
Great Vid very entertaining. So Brexit is a nightmare. I bought a 50euro light switch for my D3 from the UK and got stung for 40euro's import duty, which can't be right. Cheers.... 👍
I feel your pain, I went also one time the aftermarket way for an trigger sensor. That was 1 time and 1 time only. Such sensors I only buy OEM. And if people don't want to spend the euros for it, I won't do the job.