300Tdi Discovery
12
ENGINE
12
REPAIR
FRONT COVER/TIMING GEAR HOUSING GASKET
Service repair no - 12.65.10
Remove
1. Remove timing belt and gears.
See Camshaft
Drive Belt and Gears
2. Remove fuel injection pump.
See FUEL
SYSTEM, Repair, Fuel Injection Pump and
Timing
3. Remove engine oil sump.
See Oil Sump
4. Remove oil pick up strainer.
See Oil Pick-Up
Strainer
5. Remove bolts securing timing gear housing to
block.
6. Withdraw timing gear housing complete with
gasket.
7. Clean all gasket material from mating faces.
Refit
8. Fit slave guide studs to locate gasket.
9. Fit new gasket, over slave studs, to cylinder
block.
10. Align flats on oil pump with flats on crankshaft.
11. Fit front cover to block taking care not to damage
oil seal.
12. Secure with bolts of correct length in locations
where slave studs are not fitted (ST3482).
13. Remove slave studs and fit correct length bolts.
14. Tighten to
25 Nm.
15. Fit oil pick-up strainer.
See Oil Pick-Up
Strainer
16. Fit oil sump.
See Oil Sump
17. Refit fuel injection pump.
See FUEL SYSTEM,
Repair, Fuel Injection Pump and Timing
