So this weekend I decided to replace the cambelt, water pump, torque vibration damper, aux belt. Trying to get the flywheel locking pin was a right game, the hole was all rusted up, took me a while to do it. I also replace the inlet manifold with one that does not have swirl flaps...being a techy for BMW I see allot of issues with them, I found one brand new £60 on ebay. I also replaced all 4 glow plugs due to cold starting hesitancy.

You must have been freezing doing all that well done

Oh yes very cold 0 degrees most of the time but I used to work at MG Longbridge factory and we had no heating....we used to get icicles inside it was so cold so I'm used to it.

I did the same thing the other year, took me several days and that was in the summer, wouldn't have fancied doing it this time of year. Did you leave the EGR pipe in place, I ended up blanking it and leaving it off as I could tell it was going to be a right hassle trying to get it back on at the back.

Nice to have the glow plugs changed and peace of mind of the swirl flaps removed instead of removing themselves. 
Hung like Einstein, smart as a horse.

Good job

But as said, you must be mad doing it in these temperatures.  FL2 now gone and have a couple of items left for sale:-

Brodit active iPhone holder + Brodit dash clip,
Bluetooth Music Streaming Module.

shiggsy wrote:

I did the same thing the other year, took me several days and that was in the summer, wouldn't have fancied doing it this time of year. Did you leave the EGR pipe in place, I ended up blanking it and leaving it off as I could tell it was going to be a right hassle trying to get it back on at the back.

Nice to have the glow plugs changed and peace of mind of the swirl flaps removed instead of removing themselves.

ronp wrote:

Good job

But as said, you must be mad doing it in these temperatures.

Oh yes I am for sure. I could of used my ramp at work but I didn't want to risk killing it if something went wrong.

We used to have to work in these conditions at MG Longbridge

I’ve seen that film. Home Alone?

Where's the cars  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.