Could you not go the whole road and get your chassis zinced? The Place in Elgin does lots of them and isn't particularly expensive, I got a small pile of parts dipped last year as a test and intend to get the bulkhead done when I eventually weld it back together.
 
auld duffer said:
So we kinda left it there .. Then an hour later he calls me back to say a fella he knows has a dead Discovery with a running 300TDI , complete vehicle with reg document .. 100% complete £500 .. For that kind of money its probably a no brainer , chances are I could get the cost of the engine back selling of a few bits and dare I say it weighing in the rest .. Crikey .
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Just do it!!! if you dont you know you will regret it.

Its been a long time since I drove a 2 1/4 but I remember hitting a shallow incline and needed to shift down to climb it, after throttling the engine half to death I could shift up only to need to shift down again as I lost momentum.

The experience lead me to buy a 2.6 S3 109 'Safari' Station wagon thinking this would be better, wrong it was just the same, worse still I was averaging just 16mpg. A friend told me of a 3.0ltr 6 cylinder Rover P6 engine for sale which was basically the same engine but with a highly tuned Weslake head and a substantial increase in BHP. It was £1200 which for me in the early 90's was a lot of money. I worried that it would give me even worse fuel economy being a bigger engine. I could not have been more wrong, it transformed the car and made it a pleasure to drive, it cloud keep up with modern traffic and better still it was much better fuel economy wise. It did take some work to fit it but I managed.

The 300TDI will be the same and make driving your car so much nicer, better still it will pay for itself in fuel economy in no time at all.
 
20mpg is way low for the 2286 diesel, I got about 29 out of mine and on the north coast 500 with lots hammering on motorways dropped to 25, I’ve got a 200di in it now which was a straightforward swap, 300 tdi but more complicated as I understand , not sure if original gearbox is straight fit , with the tdi in you would probably need the diffs changing out of disco to keep the revs lower and increase the mpg
 
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