Defender engine types

[Ranga]

What year did the 200TDi, 300TDi and TD5 start and finish?

I'm looking for a defender to replace my rusty troopy - only want to spend around $10k. Any advice, e.g. should I choose a 300 over 200, etc?

[rangieman]

What year did the 200TDi, 300TDi and TD5 start and finish?

I'm looking for a defender to replace my rusty troopy - only want to spend around $10k. Any advice, e.g. should I choose a 300 over 200, etc?
200 Tdi upto early 94 , 300Tdi upto 99 , Td5 till 07
Id go 300Tdi as the 200Tdi heads are no longer available:cool:

[cewilson]

200 Tdi upto early 94 , 300Tdi upto 99 , Td5 till 07
Id go 300Tdi as the 200Tdi heads are no longer available:cool:


Huh??? ;)

[Blknight.aus]

he means they are no longer available new....

urmmm
they are if you look hard enough... but they're getting pretty rare, it seems to be easier to get a series head than a tdi200...

as the cost of rebuilding the head is not the cheapest thing to do IMHO it seems to be that if you toasted your tdi200 you dropped in a tdi300....

the 2 are all but identical as far as the engine bay is concerned for doing a swapsies but the tdi300 is a technically better engine.

its not the same scale of better as you get when you compare a td5 to a tdi300