Discovery engine failure

Found it ref the engine swap 90

lynall said:

Recondition the pistons, thats a new one on me.

The rest is std practice on any rebuild
Again I think the warranty is dogshti, 6 months!

Also be aware of anyone wanting to collect your car, you want to see where its going with your own eyes

Do no go on price alone, unless you are literally picking the car up straight after the repair and taking it straight to sell/px/wbac it, do not go home/do not stop/do not celebrate just get rid before the inevitable happens.
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Scraping the carbon off the lands where the rings sit? Cleaning up and polishing the top surface?
That's all I'd do!
(Neighbour lent me his land scraper, Snap-On. I bust it. (Was trying to use it by moving the blade in the wrong direction, if you see what I mean.))

He didn't give a feck, after all, it's Snap-On ain't it? Guaranteed for life. the van came round every week, so he took the old one, chucked it in the bin in his van and gave him a new one!
Lots of peeps just break a bit off an old ring and use that. Don't know if any one still does this, I am a bit Old Skool as you all know!

kermit_rr said:

I thought cars had to be fit for purpose and had a life expectancy? You expect a serviced and maintained vehicle to last over 40,000 miles and 6 years. Warranties and guarantees don't come into it

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Couldn't agree more, warranties and guarantees only give you your statutory rights quicker and easier. Which is why I never pay for either.
But I bet you have to have it done at a main dealer.

I seen a D3 with the BMW M57 engine fitted at 4x4 expo at Stafford, looked odd seeing the BMW engine cover under the bonnet

I am only aware of one company that would fit this engine into a D3 at present

andyschleckscheshirecat said:

I seen a D3 with the BMW M57 engine fitted at 4x4 expo at Stafford, looked odd seeing the BMW engine cover under the bonnet

I am only aware of one company that would fit this engine into a D3 at present

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It really isn't that difficult given the time and resources. As said, the engine is just hardware, and as long as you can replicate all input and output signals to and from it, you can even get the vehicle's stock ECUs to run another engine and not throw a fit.

A few years back, as a side project at work, we swapped the entire engine and running gear from a Toyota RAV4 AWD into a freelander over the course of a few months - even had switchable AWD.
Been a while and can't quite remember if we run the stock ECU for the K series or if it had an adapter, but dials and gauges worked, and we essentially had the perfect freelander.
Posted it somewhere on the old forum as part of a response to someone's thread, but can't find it now.
Can't even find my own thread from when I swapped a 200tdi into a D2 a few years back.

There's a guy on YouTube his channel is called Piston Broke. He's repaired a few of these engines. Drop him a message via his channel. You never know he may do you a good deal if you let him film the repair for his channel.

Funkyboy said:

There's a guy on YouTube his channel is called Piston Broke. He's repaired a few of these engines. Drop him a message via his channel. You never know he may do you a good deal if you let him film the repair for his channel.

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hiya

funny u mentioning him as watched his TDV6 engine rebuild around a year ago, also seen quite a few fitting second hand Jaguar engines

out of curiosity did I get a landy yet or still looking around and what model do u think ur go for plse, thks