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The petrol one is reasonably obvious, the Rolls Royce Merlin. The diesel you really have to have been there to hear one working hard. The Napier Deltic: 18 cylinders 3 crankshafts, 36 pistons

2 engines, both British 1 petrol and 1 diesel. Both quite old and not especially exotic. The diesel, dependent upon your age and location, you may never have heard in operation.

Oh I can think of a couple engines that do

Nah, by the time you get that many revs on you can't hear the engine for the sound of the petrol tank draining (think noisy bath plug hole and you will get the idea)

Thank you for your response. I am using generic (series 3) seals at the moment and they don't. I have bought MTC6224 in the past and they don't fit, they are intended for the front doors. Sadly they cannot be cut to a size where they will fit because of the location of the various holes or cut outs. i have also asked at Land Rover dealers and they can only help if I provide them with a VIN. Unfortunately my vehicle was not originally fitted with 2 piece doors so my VIN is of little value

I think the highest I have ever revved my 4.2 is about 4,000 and by that stage it is screaming.

No, but these fellas can probably help you out. http://zenithcarb.co.uk/?SID=3vjqfqjehf4a0m3lo1jjkqsia2&___store=zenith

Does anybody know the correct part number for the seals which fit between the door tops and the lower part of the door on the second row of doors for a pre august 1984 One Ten station wagon. I ask because the part number in the parts list I have is incorrect, it is the part number for the similar seal fitted to the front doors and they do not fit at all.

these videos might help explain

I do mine every couple of years and thin it about 50/50 with white spirit to make it nice and easy to spray,plus it flows much better and softens the existing layer thus helping the new application to stick

I have used the Garrison outfitters replacement window "felt" on my early 110 with 5mm sliding windows and it works very well. The early kits were an absolute pig to fit but the later versions are much easier. They have been in position now for about 5 years and still no rattles

If you have a look here. https://www.tyreleader.co.uk enter your tyre size and choose winter tyres you might be surprised by what comes up. Typically winter tyres are heavily siped and have relatively small, sharp edged tread blocks.I have got Goodyear wrangler MTR tyres on mine for most of the year and they are not very good on hard packed snow, or even not so hard packed. they break away quite gently and typically at the front end first. During the snowier times I fit Michelin latitude, still a summer tyre but far better on snow that the Goodyears. probably cos the Michelin factory is only 50 miles up the road

At the moment in Europe, or it may just be UK. There is a body of opinion which regards the emissions from diesel engines as a pollutant which is killing people. Paris has enacted a ban on vehicles over (I think) 10 years old from entering the city between 0800 and 2000. London has a Low emissions zone (coupled with large fines for those who enter it in an excluded vehicle) and is suggesting banning all diesel vehicles from the city at some point in the future. Allegedly there is a company re-engineering the London black cab to run on a petrol engine. How soon all of this will result in the disappearance of Diesel engined vehicles from the roads, who knows? I suspect a lot more vehicles will be taken off the road as a result of future increases in the price of oil than by legislation.

Worth watching this video.

Not without the relevant pedal/pedal box

I hope they cut the crusts off your cucumber sandwiches

If the difference in weight between a TD5 and a V8 is 143 Kg. If you stayed with the V8 you would be able to carry an additional 170 litres of fuel before you made up the weight difference, even at an off road consumption of say 2.5 kilometres/litre that is 425 off road kilometres worth of additional fuel you could carry. Plus you would be saving yourself all the expense of the conversion. When I changed from V8 to Tdi, even using a 2nd hand engine, by the time I had changed the input shaft of the gearbox, the radiator, fitted an intercooler, changed the fuel piping, fuel pump, added a diesel filter, diesel sedimentor, changed the PS box, the exhaust, engine mountings (which involved cutting the existing mounting brackets off the chassis and welding new mountings on,) gearbox mountings, prop shafts and numerous other smaller components I still ended up with a bill just shy of $10,600 Canadian at today's exchange rate. Yes I used genuine Land Rover components so the bill could be reduced by using pattern or generic parts. Then you have to consider sourcing all the electronics that go with the TD5 and the removal of all those associated with the V8

Having had a V8 and a Tdi in the same vehicle. I went back to the V8. Yes the 300Tdi gave me twice the MPG of a V8 but by comparison it was horrible. The V8 may not be particularly powerful but it is a far more relaxed and relaxing engine to be sat behind. I also tried a D2 with a TD5 and a slush box. It felt very sluggish by comparison, or at least it seemed to need a lot of encouragement to make it go

Or these, bent as a 9 bob note, vehicles. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-N-LAND-ROVER-DEFENDER-90-300-TDi-/272541515831?hash=item3f74bd8037:g:HmYAAOSwLEtYkSaL http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Series-2a-Td5-Automatic-with-Trailer-and-Generator-/192089074920?hash=item2cb966ace8:g:-cYAAOSwEzxYQALs http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302221742230?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Series-3-109-LWB-1976-Number-Plate-V5-Tax-discs-MOT-/272552402043?hash=item3f75639c7b http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAND-ROVER-SERIES-2A-CHASSIS-WITH-TAX-EXEMPT-ID-V5-SWB-88-FOR-REPAIR-/162394687013?hash=item25cf7a4625 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/land-rover-series-1-chassis-and-V5-1956-/272548004101?hash=item3f75208105 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Discovery-300tdi-N-Reg-5-Door-Chassis-with-V5-possibly-Tax-Exempt-/112295737765?hash=item1a2558f9a5

You will need deep pockets though. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3431871/Owner-diesel-Land-Rover-puts-tatty-4x4-sale-200-000-doesn-t-come-prized-engine.html

http://www.landrover.co.uk/explore-land-rover/reborn.html

Or, the LT95 as fitted to the Isuzu engined Land Rovers used by the Australian military?

A possible reason for the dearth of aged Land Rovers in Australia is that Land Rover are buying them up, shipping them back to the factory, renovating them and selling them again for figures north of £60,000 each. In another forum I read that Nissan are buying back some of the Navarra models in Europe because the chassis rust is so bad the chassis are failing. http://www.europe4x4mag.com/2016/03/03/pick-ups-check-chassis/

Quite agree, Double S exhausts are rubbish, they barely fit, the welds crack and the customer service is laughable. When I told them I was having problems fitting it, they invited me to drive the 320 miles to their workshop so they could fit it. Though they pointed out that there was nothing they could, or would, do about the fact that the tail pipe exited at exactly the same position as the rear mudflap was fitted. I subsequently went to PD Gough near Nottingham and for not a great deal more had a proper stainless exhaust fabricated and fitted to the vehicle on the spot. Guaranteed for ever as well

Mine is similar, I knock the T box into neutral when parked at Tescos and the like, just to slow the thieves down a fraction. Sometimes when I return it will not go back into gear at all, until I put the main box in gear and very slowly lift the clutch, whilst maintaining a gentle pressure on the selector lever, then it goes in quite nicely thank you.It is probably down to the gears not being aligned so they cannot mesh until everything is turning