Originally Posted by Peter Logan
Here in the UK Isuzu 3.9s are hard to find, but after many years ive found one. Fed up with lack of power from 200 and 300 tdis, so the susies going in. The Isuzu came from another defender and had been mounted to a V8 bellhousing and LT77 box. Needless to say the box is scrap so I am fitting it to the R380 already in my defender. Because the existing bellousing is for a 300 tdi it wont fit the Isuzu engine so I find what I need to do is use a bellhousing from a V8 R380 defender, which I now have. I also need to change the spigot bearing from 19mm to 22mm to suit the R380 input shaft. After repostitioning the engine chassis mounts everthing else is plain sailing, I hope.
