Thread: Stuffed engine

Ouch, that's tough mate!! I can't believe the engine still lasted 10,000km like that!


How exactly did you install the filter? Into the housing first?


Pricing for a new engine IIRC is from around $10K drive in-drive out. I have heard it going to $20K but I assume that was worst case - ie warranty work.


Good luck with it mate!


I also noticed this TDV6 engine on ebay - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_t...at=0&_from=R40

Sorry to hear about your engine and your part in it. I must admit that when you mentioned the squashed bit in your oil filter I thought that there must be an oil problem causing engine damage and hence the ticking noise. There was a TDV6 D3 at Rovertech a couple of months ago making the same sort of ticking sound you described and the mechanic told me that it ran out of oil when the owner didn't put the oil filter on properly.

Bob

YTT 105

Have you investigated your insurance policy.

From what you have described it is accidental damage.

It would be no different to putting the wrong fuel in & blowing the motor or driving it in to water that is to deep.

Perhaps get someone with a legal mind to read your insurance terms & conditions before you make a claim.

Not the first and won't be the last.
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I doubt you have any call back on insurance seeing the cause was not done by a mechanical workshop / licensed mechanic.
But good luck with it.

Originally Posted by ytt105

Two mechanics have confirmed the diagnosis.

Any idea about costs of a rebuild, anyone suitable in Canberra or Sydney?

Where did you take it to get it checked??

Supposedly new bearing shells are available but service providers on the Disco 3 UK site indicate that they cannot get them. You might have to get a new long engine or get a used engine but then you might end up with the same issue.

However how an engine with a main/big end or gudgeon gone is still able to travel over 800km while towing 2tonne at highway cruising speed does seem a bit hard to comprehend.

I would be getting advice from someone who knows and there is no one in Canberra who I would trust to provide that advice - one of the indies in Sydney should be able to advise however the question is then how do you get the car up there.

Garry

An update on my 'stuffed' engine.

Still going fine, if I was deaf I wouldn't have a problem!

Took the sump off yesterday. Very easy job, just a dozen 8mm bolts and its off. You can't see anything of the underside of the engine though, you have to take A LOT MORE OFF to get up that far.

Check the sump and there was virtually NO metal bits in there at all.

I say virtually because I could see a couple of dozen 'golden' specks but I showed it to the 'technicians' at the Landrover dealer and they said it was less than could be expected for 130,000kms.

If the bearings are gone there should be metal, not so with the gudgeon pins though.

Said dealer also spent some time listening and probing and doesn't think the engine is stuffed.

His thinking is injectors.

So, in a couple of weeks, they will get it for a few hours to take out the injectors and poke a camera inside to have a look.

Funny how a couple of grand for injectors sounds so much better than a new engine.

I've had quotes of between $6,500 and $8,800 for a 2nd hand engine to $12,400 for a complete new engine. Remove/replace seems to be anywhere from $3,000 to $6,000 plus.

Also, Gary the original diagnosis of gudgeon pin was done by a Bosch mechanic in Fyshwick and I have to say I was very impressed with the local dealers attitude.

Hopefully they will find something cheap!

As I said to drive the distances you did after the noise started does not sound like bearings at all or gudgeon pins etc - the engine would have died with a broken crankshaft before you got to Melbourne. Likewise if the oil filter was cutting supply of oil - the engine would have died soon after installation.

TerryO had to get work done on his engine and the mechanic found either bearing cap or main bolts loose so while your sump is off get the torque on these checked.

You can't get to the caps without a lot more work.

When the sump is off all you can see is a cast plate, and the oil pickup which looked fine, sort of like the underside of an auto after removal of the pan.