03 V8 Blown oil pump...!!

[ozscott]

Mate with 95k on his 03 manual V8 has had his oil pump explode without warning. It may well have lead to catestrophic engine damage. Owned since new and has apparantly it last service was less than a year ago and he tells me its always been seviced - its had a noise for a few weeks that he ignored. His missus thought it might have missed a service or 2 but thats apparantly not right... Oil changes are cheap insurance but it seems thats not the problem.


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[ozscott]

...actually he will need to check his Vin...he might be in the class of engine that had incorrect dowl fitment (it affected mostly 4.6's as I understand it, but 4.0's wouldnt be immune surely).

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[Pedro_The_Swift]

...actually he will need to check his Vin...he might be in the class of engine that had incorrect dowl fitment (it affected mostly 4.6's as I understand it, but 4.0's wouldnt be immune surely).

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excuse me????

[Urban Panzer]

Yes a well known issue with the 03 Disco.

The was a machining / manufacturing error with the block / dowels / oil pump housing on a lot of V8 03 MY engines, the cause is the oil pump can fail without warning and boom kills it. A said, its affected range covers the 4.6 and the NAS market.....but who knows!!!

A big percentage of customers have had replacement engines from Land Rover under warranty, also a lot have been told to f'off to.. Think it depends on how good your dealer is at the time.

here it is anyway for reading if ya bored...

www.discovery2.co.uk/pdf_files/lrna_tsb.pdf

[ozscott]

There is plenty of info on landroversonly etc, but my bet is that if it can effect the 4.6 it can effect the 4.0 but hey who knows it may purely be bad luck...I suppose the mech can check the see if the pump had been properly secured and all the dowels were in place properly etc, but again maybee now that cannot be checked. I am still going to suggest to him that he gets onto LR for them to inspect and if they dont he might want to be threatening legal action because at 95 odd k that is crazy stuff.

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[ozscott]

Then again I have never heard of an oil pump failure on australian forums, so perhaps the 4.0's are immune. Having said that it wasnt unkown that the Sollihul production line could see oil pickups incorrectly torqued up causing movement allowing oil starvation at the pump in the 3.9's so only the gods of pure luck know....


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[Scouse]

I've only ever seen one D2 oil pump failure. It was less than 200km old & blew the smithereens out of the front cover.