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Crikey, where do I start explaining this one?
Firstly, Hi everyone! I came across your site this evening after a desperate Google search.
I have a 96 Disco and to put it bluntly she has packed a sad.
Started about 4 weeks ago with the tappets rattling now and then ...took to the garage and they said they couldn't do anything as they were hydraulic and it was probably only a bit of grit that would clear itself. Then they got louder and the oil light stayed on until out on the open road and then came on again when idle in traffic. Now I am being told a bearing has probably dropped (from somewhere???) and it's either a replacement engine or reconditioning of this one. Well Land Rover parts must be like rocking horse s*** over here (living in NZ) because they are talking mega bucks! Mega bucks I just don't have at the moment.
This motor has basically caused us nothing but grief from day one and I consider myself a rational person, BUT I cant bring myself around to the thought of flicking her on to break for spares. Some motors have personality and this is one of them, the suspension is raised, she has a snorkel and front and rear bash plates underneath, someone has attacked the wheel arches with an angle grinder and removed a muffler so that when running she sounds like a 60 year old who smokes 40 a day. In short I LOVE this car!
My question is how easy is it to get the engine out of a Disco? How easy are they to fix? 20 years ago my first car was a Land Rover series 3 and it was forever going wrong and needing fixing ...which I mostly did myself with help of Dad, the neighbours, boyfriends and the trusty manual etc.
Obviously "reconditioning" sounds very precision and needing to be done by an expert, but what about the rest ...is it too ambitious?
Space and time are not a problem so it could be treated like a project.
All thoughts appreciated even if they are only to tell me to get a grip and stop being so whimsical!
Cheers
btw, what actually happens when an engine is reconditioned?
Firstly, Hi everyone! I came across your site this evening after a desperate Google search.
I have a 96 Disco and to put it bluntly she has packed a sad.
Started about 4 weeks ago with the tappets rattling now and then ...took to the garage and they said they couldn't do anything as they were hydraulic and it was probably only a bit of grit that would clear itself. Then they got louder and the oil light stayed on until out on the open road and then came on again when idle in traffic. Now I am being told a bearing has probably dropped (from somewhere???) and it's either a replacement engine or reconditioning of this one. Well Land Rover parts must be like rocking horse s*** over here (living in NZ) because they are talking mega bucks! Mega bucks I just don't have at the moment.
This motor has basically caused us nothing but grief from day one and I consider myself a rational person, BUT I cant bring myself around to the thought of flicking her on to break for spares. Some motors have personality and this is one of them, the suspension is raised, she has a snorkel and front and rear bash plates underneath, someone has attacked the wheel arches with an angle grinder and removed a muffler so that when running she sounds like a 60 year old who smokes 40 a day. In short I LOVE this car!
My question is how easy is it to get the engine out of a Disco? How easy are they to fix? 20 years ago my first car was a Land Rover series 3 and it was forever going wrong and needing fixing ...which I mostly did myself with help of Dad, the neighbours, boyfriends and the trusty manual etc.
Obviously "reconditioning" sounds very precision and needing to be done by an expert, but what about the rest ...is it too ambitious?
Space and time are not a problem so it could be treated like a project.
All thoughts appreciated even if they are only to tell me to get a grip and stop being so whimsical!
Cheers
btw, what actually happens when an engine is reconditioned?
