Thread: Defender Purchase Advice (300tdi vs td5)

Originally Posted by nonimouse

The Big Isuzu lump is a stonker but rarer than an honest politician anywhere out of the Southern Hemisphere and parts are very hard to come by. The 2.8 and 3.1 are much eeasier to find bits for North of the Equator.

Sorry, but that is incorrect.

4BD1(T)s and 4BD2(T)s are everywhere all over the world, and parts are just as easy to find in the northern hemisphere as the south (many of us buy our big ticket items in the US).

The 4BD1(T) and 4BD2(T) appeared in the GMC4000 and the Isuzu NPR truck in the US.


And - shock - here is a company in the UK who specialise in isuzu truck parts Croft Brothers | Commercial vehicle repair and maintenance service in Slough I am sure they would have all the bits you need.

The isuzu powered landies are basically a 110 CSW V8 with an engine conversion. 99.99% of the parts are either stock 110 CSW V8 parts or stock isuzu truck parts.

Originally Posted by nonimouse

Isuzurover

I hear what you are saying but in reality it's not the case.

I know Croft Bro's, nice people with scarey prices. The reason I know them is when a client of mine (who owned a 3.9 conversion) needed parts he suggested I go there to scource them. I could list three or four other places in the UK that 'specialise' in that sort of stuff. But they are all 'Police Watch' for handling stolen vehicles. You could go a year here and not see an Isuzu light truck, same goes for France. Those that do exist are kept as long as possible then flogged to the truck markets in North Africa. As for Eastern Europe - forget it

So I'm sorry old lad but I am correct. If I wasn't I wouldn't have a 200Tdi in my 110!

I do however agree that they are available in the good old US of A; but that's just the states - the bit the other side of the Atlantic is a lot bigger and a lot more interesting to drive round.

I just a had a quick sweep on the European engine rescource - 1 engine in Chicago for $2500!

Add to that if you travel in France or Spain (and one or two other EU countries) and have the joy of being stopped, you will be driving an illegal vehicle in there eyes. Even if the conversion has been approved in the country the vehile is registered in...

I could go on but I won't as I am now rambling like an old man

Lol...

Last I checked, not only was the USA and canada in the northern hemisphere, but also mexico, ALL of central america, some of south america, most of africa, asia, india... (EU starting to look small yet?). So your argument is a bit tenuous, as I have travelled in most of the above list of countries and seen HEAPS of isuzu engined trucks driving around... Plus I know people who have travelled in the above countries in isuzu-engined landies...

Next you will argue that it is illegal to import isuzu parts from the US or Asia into the EU