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Location: Somerset
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I feel your pain fella,I've been there but I was Lucky enough to be able to do all the work myself still cost £££££ and I felt like you are feeling at first,but then thought im not going to get anywhere with Landrover so I didn't even try,I just had to face it that my car is 6 years old with 58k on the clock and its knackered,so I had two options scrap it or repair it,so I took option two and got it sorted and with help from Nick/TLO at yeovil Landrover with there great prices and forum discount I set to and bought the old girl back to life.
Regarding the previous owner
I have owned mine from nearly new ex demo always serviced it at 6k and done preventative Maintenance and the day she let go on a 20 mile trip there wasn't one second that I thought something didn't sound right or didn't feel right I started the car in the morning it was sweet as a nut 20 mins later and no6 had dropped a big end so I would say that possibly the last owner didn't know anything was wrong.
Welcome to my 05 bottom end is s t club
Really hope it all works out for fella keep us posted Not sure if DiscoDunc still has and engine for sell
Edit
Just realised I posted this on the wrong one, it was ment for dead disco/MSetubalWanted D4s non runners pm for competitive price.
IID Pro MV License - D3/4 RRS - Enabling, Updates,Transmission flushing.
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19th Jun 2012 3:33 pm
bozmandb9
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19th Jun 2012 3:58 pm
woody32 Site Sponsor
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I Would like to know how they recon the bottom end when Landrover haven't released any parts.
That's why I had to buy a new block otherwise I would of rebuilt my bottom end.Wanted D4s non runners pm for competitive price.
IID Pro MV License - D3/4 RRS - Enabling, Updates,Transmission flushing.
Mobile or workshop,PM for details.
19th Jun 2012 4:24 pm
Dave T
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... I was thinking the same about piston rings as wellJoined the BMWX5 45e group
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19th Jun 2012 4:31 pm
JPW
Member Since: 19 Mar 2007
Location: Essex
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I've gone for the LR engine from the dealer, together with the full set of suggested replacements. Hopefully it will be fit for another 100,000 miles once it's done - I won't be able to afford to change it now - and I may have to hide the final bill from SWMBO.
I can understand most of the additional bits that are worth changing, but what is it about the brake pipes? - I'd have thought that they would be fairly long lasting (I've asked for them to be checked and replaced if necessary).
Paul
19th Jun 2012 7:19 pm
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Just (last week) had my front to rear brake pipes changed at 6 years & 93k, badly corroded was the description. It's supposed to be a lot easier with the body off, easier = quicker = cheaper, so they say.
19th Jun 2012 7:22 pm
JPW
Member Since: 19 Mar 2007
Location: Essex
Posts: 217
Are Land Rover using steel brake pipes then?
I've just had to replace the brake pipes on my 1966 Series 2a - some were the original steel ones - but I'd have expected the D3 ones to last more than 6 years!
19th Jun 2012 7:31 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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No idea, way too techie for me. Quite a few posts on here in the past re the brake pipes and their replacement.
19th Jun 2012 7:33 pm
MickMcMuck
Member Since: 12 Nov 2011
Location: North Norfolk
Posts: 28
gutted for u m8...just a thought, could you put a 3.0 tdv6 in there, dont simtek do ecu/body intf ecu... ? would love to know if it could be done!
19th Jun 2012 7:59 pm
character
Member Since: 31 Dec 2007
Location: wiltshire
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injectors........no point fitting yer old ones over on to a new engine....BTW would consider going for NEW OEM not recon injectors
turbo.......would buy one yerself directly at around £650 from main distributor......
lastly I would personally stay clear of the recon engine unit if yer budget allows, so far my new engine has eaten NINE injectors since having the so called LR supplied recon unit in March 2012.
Its now got another injector fault code on the same cylinder that had been changed approx 30 days ago - dealership has raised tech support case and is going off the road next week to have a compression test done prior to it being replaced under warranty as we have rejected the engine as being faulty.
hoping to get a genuine LR OEM 2.7 lump as a goodwill jesture if yer reading this Mr LR HQ
19th Jun 2012 9:43 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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You ever thought of running 2 x D3s so you'll have one always available when the other goes in for TLC?
19th Jun 2012 9:54 pm
bozmandb9
Member Since: 15 Jun 2012
Location: Oxford
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You sure about that DSL? I think you'd be safer with 3 or 4!
19th Jun 2012 9:59 pm
character
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TLC, my more like total restoration
TBH I am now getting a wee but peed off with the whole situation of D3's, need for operators licence one week, not the next..... and shoddy recon parts from LR which seem to fail within months.
I genuinely thought having spent 10k+ on the engine and other bits that this would be the last of the big bills, instead a new front diff and complete prop came next, last week it was a complete rear cross member and new tow bar (£1200 plus vat for that alone) and now the bleedin engines FUBAR'd with only 30k on it - at least the old one did 471k miles.
19th Jun 2012 10:00 pm
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bozmandb9 wrote:
You sure about that DSL? I think you'd be safer with 3 or 4!
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t club
Just realised I posted this on the wrong one, it was ment for dead disco/MSetubal
