OINCIDENTALLY, once I had buttoned up the repairs to the 300Tdi, my very next job was a timing belt change on another 300Tdi-engined Defender, this time as part of a routine service visit. This was a factoryfit 300Tdi which sits a long way further forward in the engine bay than the one I had just been working on. Even with the fan and cowling removed, there isn’t a huge amount of room between the radiator and the front of the engine, but
