Is there anyone out there that can come and give me a hand swapping engine at the weekend. I have got to the point of bell housing bolts and have come to a grinding halt. The car is 4 litre I cooked the original and it is now burning oil 007 style and using water like there's no tomorrow. Any...

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After a weekend of stewing and threatening all kinds of hell on the design bods at landrover I am wondering on a scale of 1 to 10 how easy is it to take engine and gearbox out as a single unit swap engine then put the whole lot back in? 1 being easier 10 being buy a new car. I don't really want...

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...

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.

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...

Started ar 430 this morning attempting the engine swap. All going reasonably well until we got to the bell housing bolts. How does one get these beggars undone no room to get spanners on. I am at my wits end have had to cancel wife's hospital appointments until I get this thing going. If anyone...

4.0 litre 1996. Having an argument with siblings how long will it take two people with average mechanical skills and knowledge to remove and replace the engine in my range I say a weekend my sibling is saying up to 8 days. Who is right or nearest. Mortally wounded original engine having to...

Ok thanks so best go for like for like.

What if any engines will drop straight into a1998 p38 4litre petrol gems vehicle. I am assuming that the thor engine only fits electrically on later models. Is there anything landrover wise that is a straight swop?

Thanks I am assuming that the seperator lives inside the pipe and I am sure it doesn't have one (no suprise there) as an experiment disconnected both pipes and took it for a short run (to the shop to buy some fags) and the amount of smoke seemed to have diminished have ordered two lamda will...

One of the breather pipes isn't quite long enough and has a slight kink in it and where is the oil seperator and what does it look like.

I did head gaskets and valve stem seals and cured the smoke but since I put the plenum the right way round and connected up the crankcase breathers it has started blowing smoke. Haven't had to fill oil as yet.

I did stick some redex in tank last week could that be the smoke?

4 litre petrol gems engine Failed it's mot on emissions readings as follows Fast idle co 5.292 Hc 842 Lambda 0.912 Second idle co 5.986 Hc 1069 Lambda 0.876 Natural idle co 3.455 %volume Exhaust emits...

Just need matches

Ok sorted the backfire put a new coil pack on and it stopped as for the emission pipes it helps if I put the plenum chamber on the right way round spun that through 180 degrees answer blow me down all the pipes have somewhere to go. Who would have thought!!! Took the door card off the rear door...

Yes first thing I did door is fully operational windows, locking etc message came up about 2 miles from starting journey now it's almost immediately on starting.