200TDi Flywheel Housing Modification
Just about everyone who puts a 200TDi engine into a Series Land Rover will end up looking at the Glencoyne website at some point. He’s the guy who first suggested taking the turbo off the 200TDi to create a lower powered “200Di” variant. That’s exactly the conversion I am doing so I thought I’d include a plug at the top of this post, especially as I didn’t pay him to modify my flywheel housing for me… Clamped the flywheel housing to the mill. Widened the existing holes part way to 16mm to allow the Allen caps of the very expensive stainless M10x70 bolts to sit flush with the edge. Then drilled the half-made 10mm holes already in the casing and tapped M10 to take some extra studs. Started tapping in the mill to make sure I got the thread straight. Then finished by hand. I was quite scared about the whole process as one slip-up would have meant a new engine! It worked well in the end though. Here are some before and after shots of the flywheel housing… So that’s one less job to worry about! Need to look at the timing belt then build a mounting for the generator next I think…