Thread: 03 V8 Blown oil pump...!!

...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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Originally Posted by 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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excuse me????

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

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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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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