300tdi Timing Cover Bearing for Viscous Fan Pulley

[Mark_Solesbury]

Joy.

Ive got a random squeek on my 90 that is getting more and more frequant.

Tracked it down to hte bearing on the inside of the timing case for the Fan pulley :(

To get the 300tdi 'Front Cover' off you have to take most of the front off, which I dont mind doing. Only tricky bit will be the bloody nut on the bottom pulley..

Ant bright ideas?

Does anyone know the part number for the bearing? I cant find it in microcat.

This is a thread I found on it.

http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=32248

[topless matt]

It is fairly easy to get off.
You can use a breaker bar and crank the engine over without the fuel pump connected and that will free it off.
I held the engine with a screwdriver in the flywheel and just used a breaker bar to undo it.
Comes off fairly easily, well, it does with a length of scafold bar  :twisted:
Dont know the bearing number iff the top of my head

Hope you get it sorted

[Mark_Solesbury]

It seems that after some digging, you cant actually get the bearing on its own.. nor can you press it out fo the cast case

Looks like it needs a whole new timing cover!

Such as life. £150 from the clutch fund!

[Saffy]

Might be worth asking in the wanted section of forum, plenty of dead 300tdi's sitting about with perfectly good timing cover plates without forking out for brand new. I do not think issue with the bearing is *that* common. How many miles on clock out of interest?

[Mark_Solesbury]

85K...

I took the fan pulley off and it is rough when you turn it, and there is a little play.

Good Idea on the wanted section :)