P38A Calling it quits

Duncanincapable · May 27, 2018

Read all the replies yesterday and went back to her today and looked at it and thought I have bitten off more than I can chew and it is time to admit defeat. So does anyone know somebody that wants to buy a 1996 4.0 litre range rover with spare engine. I'm afraid my love affair with it has ended, I'm too old to be scrabbling about under the bloody thing. Going to buy a car that I can work on without computers, emmissions et al so that will be a 1930 model t ford then

Grrrrrr · May 27, 2018

Try the Sales and Wants section although you'll probably do better on eBay than here!

Saint.V8 · May 27, 2018

As per my post in your other thread - Why are you swapping out the engine?

Grrrrrr · May 27, 2018

Saint.V8 said:
As per my post in your other thread - Why are you swapping out the engine?

Oh, you beat me here!

Duncanincapable · May 28, 2018

Saint.V8 said:
As per my post in your other thread - Why are you swapping out the engine?

Won't pass emissions plus cooked it one day going to work now using water and oil at an alarming rate thought easy fix swap engine but there you go things never that easy.

johnnyb70 · May 28, 2018

Duncan it took me ages to get the beggar back in and i really feel your frustration. I only really brought it to a finish because I'm extremely pig headed.(and I'd spent a few hundred on bearings gaskets and machining!) What point is it at now? Did you manage to remove any bell housing bolts? I'm 50 and i find going under cars for more than 5 mins simply exhausting. It gives me a terrible neck then leads to migraines for a spell.

Duncanincapable · May 28, 2018

Not wanting to sound like a mardy arse. I'm 59 have hepatitis c, from a blood transfusion in 1976, so i get tired very quickly ,my wife is terminally ill. The car is in the warehouse at work I'm on my own with no phone signal if anything happens basically I'm stuffed. Thats the back story. Got to the car on Sunday and looked at it and came to the conclusion that this is beyond me the scale of the parts, the gearbox looks about the size of a mini and all the manual says do a and b followed by c as if these things are made of polystyrene. So all I did was pile it all up and stuck it back into the corner out of the way.

ukadamwest · May 29, 2018

Duncanincapable said:
Won't pass emissions plus cooked it one day going to work now using water and oil at an alarming rate thought easy fix swap engine but there you go things never that easy.

I take it by cooked it, it was overheated ? a head gasket change rather than pull the engine ?

P38A Calling it quits

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