Originally Posted by Army

Good one Diesel911

That has reminded me about the intermediate shaft play...

When you remove the vacuum pump (as planned) check the end play of the intermediate shaft and see if it is loose.

This is the bit on these engines that shuttles back and forth (with wear) and then wrecks vacuum pumps.

You probably won't be able to make a really good measurement of this play (use a DTI) with the injector pump still on but if it is dangerously loose you should be able to detect it.

However, if you are going to remove the injector pump...




A word of warning:- It is dangerous asking me about what "needs" to be done - I started with a front end rebuild on my car a year ago and now I've almost done every job there is to do on the car... engine rebuild, transmission, rebuild, steering box, steering pump, paint... blah blah blah