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Ideally you'd add or remove shims until you have the clearance the manual says, but I've seen a few vans with no shims at all so it's probably ok.

It's a real pain with the engine in place, you really need to use an oil pan separator tool, and the crossmember gets in the way. It can be done, it's just a hassle. Once it's separated, you might need to undo the engine mounts and lift the engine a little to get the oil pan out. That said, the oil ...

Loosening all the bolts is a good idea when reassembling. No point loosening the taper pin nuts, but loosening the other bolts that hold the balljoints in place might give you a little more movement. You're following the workshop manual, right? Have you checked that there is actually enough clearanc...

Yup, they get stuck after a few years. An oil filter wrench with a strip of rubber to protect the chrome sometimes works too.

Is this sensor is the only engine temperature sensor? Yes, that is the only sensor that can change the way the engine or temperature gauge works*. The sender is actually two senders in one piece: one terminal goes to the dashboard gauge, one terminal goes to the glow plug computer. Either terminal ...

Bench test each glow plug- use a jumper lead to power each glow plug in turn and see that they all take about the same time to start to glow. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXqz9XDDPiU Does your van have the super-quick glow system (no warning light on the dashboard, you listen for the c...

Smoke from a diesel engine (especially a primitive one like ours) is completely normal at high altitude (above 1500m or so). The fuel injection pump injects a certain amount of fuel based on engine speed, accelerator position, and boost level (increase in pressure above atmospheric), but it has no w...

Is this a diesel engine? If so, you have twin fan belts, and you need to replace them both at the same time with a matched pair of belts from the same batch. Genuine Mitsubishi belts are best, part number MD313660 (there are two belts in the packet). There's a set on Ebay right now: https://www.ebay...

It's hard to say how much a repair will cost until you know what's wrong. Guessing what's wrong is a surefire way of spending too much money!

Blue smoke does sound like worn piston rings. You'll need to do a compression test: 440psi when cranking is ideal, the lowest limit is 320psi, with no more than 20psi difference between any two cylinders.

If the compression is ok it could be failed valve stem seals, or a slightly leaky turbo.

When it's doing this, open the engine cover and check that the throttle lever is resting on the idle speed screw like it should be. As Steven says, it might be your AC idle-up solenoid holding the lever back (or binding in the accelerator cable, or the kickdown cable, or... or... or... lots of thing...

I just figured that the position of the shifter lever tells me when it's in 4WD. (Whereas reverse needs a switch to turn on the reverse lights). As long as the hub lock light works I'm happy.

Nice! I thought about doing something similar for the 4WD dash light which is always a bit intermittent, but it makes far more sense for the reverse switch.

The 4D56 is a completely normal Mitsubishi balance shaft engine, it's basically a 4G54 (as fitted to Mitsubishis from 1978-1997 and Chrysler K-cars) only it's diesel. There's no reason any competent mechanic can't work on it, especially if given the factory workshop manual (This is the section you w...

It's more accurate to leave the crank pulley in place and use the timing marks cast into the lower plastic timing cover. Still, being one tooth out on the timing belt would result in the crank pulley timing mark being nearly 20mm off- the sort of thing that's really obvious. The next step would be a...