daddy2coull

Active Member

• Jan 14, 2013

• #1

I've been to view a defender 90 with a 300tdi fitted, by all accounts its been in there years, but the engine number has been re stamped 'recon' followed by another number and the logbook has a 12j engine number.

do i just walk away?

 

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RobertOHare

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #2

daddy2coull said:

I've been to view a defender 90 with a 300tdi fitted, by all accounts its been in there years, but the engine number has been re stamped 'recon' followed by another number and the logbook has a 12j engine number.

do i just walk away?

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run.

 

pressbrake

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #3

not worth it

 

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #4

doesn't sound that bad to me. swapping an old na for a 300tdi is common and it really could just be a recon engine. Can you ask the guy where he got it reconned (if it was him) and then check up?

 

daddy2coull

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #5

apparently the guy bought the 90 years ago and it was already like it back then and he'd never bothered about it.

 

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #6

daddy2coull said:

apparently the guy bought the 90 years ago and it was already like it back then and he'd never bothered about it.

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:screaming_bug_eye_f :5back2: 90 years! That's an old landy

 

trax

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #7

Some people don't bother... risk you take. If it isn't special or a good price (but legit!) then don't bother with the agro

 

vilguy

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #8

i wouldnt be too worried about it personally. If the price if right.

 

marc7

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #9

nowt to worry about

 

trax

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #10

You'd do anything for the right price though

 

Shifty1962

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #11

Engine refurbishers where they restamp the engine number?
Whats the point other than to try and cover the original identity of the engine.
You dont change your chassis number when you weld new outriggers and a crossmember on.
You cant send the V5 into the DVLA with "recon" in the engine number spot either.

 

jamesmartin

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #12

we used to stamp new number on every unit built part of reason was bosses vanity and part to show it was a recon and part as case or block maywell be built to different spec ie 2,25 petrol can be built using td block or p38 gear box from defender case

 

Soloby Rob

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #13

daddy2coull said:

I've been to view a defender 90 with a 300tdi fitted, by all accounts its been in there years, but the engine number has been re stamped 'recon' followed by another number and the logbook has a 12j engine number.

do i just walk away?

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If the vehicle is right and the price is right, buy it, enter new engine number to DVLA, sorted.

 

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DLK

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• Jan 14, 2013

• #14

Makes me wonder...

A while back I bought my 1986 90 in the UK. The car was originaly a 2.5TD (19J?) but years ago it was fitted with a genuine Defender 200Tdi.

The car was owned by a Marcos/Land Rover specialist and was used as a customer loan car. Later it got sold to one of their customers who sold it to me.

The 200Tdi was in there before the specialist got the car.

On the spot the engine number should be the casting is completly blanc. There is NO engine number on the engine.

This got me worried when importing the car. but in the end wasn't an issue.

What could it mean that there is nothing on the block?

David