Thread: Your favourite land rover diesel engine

Originally Posted by tangus89

4BD1T - what does stalling mean?

It means you've run out of fuel, couldn't be anything else.

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Originally Posted by TimNZ

2.2TDCi - I'm not joking, it's a great little engine.


(Now for the hate )

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Originally Posted by tangus89

4BD1T - what does stalling mean?

Either you're out of fuel (as already mentioned) or you just selected 4th instead of 2nd for takeoff.

I actually tried one day to start off and keep changing up without using the throttle, just feathering the clutch. I got 1-2-3-4th with no problem at all. 5th was too rumbly at idle.

Originally Posted by Dougal

Either you're out of fuel (as already mentioned) or you just selected 4th instead of 2nd for takeoff.

I actually tried one day to start off and keep changing up without using the throttle, just feathering the clutch. I got 1-2-3-4th with no problem at all. 5th was too rumbly at idle.

I've seen a IIa with the 4 cyl petrol engine do something just as good as that.

I once got a lift with an old farmer in a SWB Series IIa. He must have been deaf as a post as he clearly had no idea what revs the engine was doing. He seemed to do his gear changing by numbers or by some other mysterious method that only he understood.

His technique for changing down was to wait until it was almost stalling and then select the next lower gear. At the speeds he was doing and the revs the engine was doing, no double declutching was necessary to silently select second.

On one occasion as the vehicle was on the verge of stalling in third gear, he slowly moved the gear lever in the general direction of second gear. Somehow he missed second gear and finished up in fourth.

Since the engine was close to stalling in third, you can imagine the sort of revs it was doing in fourth.

When the speed in fourth had built up to something approaching walking pace, he went through his usual routine of changing to third (thinking he was choosing a higher gear) and at about a very slow jog, he selected fourth.

if a 4 cylinder 2.25 litre petrol engine can do that, imagine how impressive the 2.25 litre diesel must have been.

Originally Posted by bacicat

BMW M57 TD6 in my L322.

It is the only diesel LR product I have, so can't comment on the others. The M57 has won best Diesel engine in Europe many times and is very robust, easy to work on and easy to get parts for. Have seen examples over 300KKM still in great condition, and on forums have seen examples of them with over 500KKM on them that still have had no issues and never needed rebuilding. The modern version of this engine is currently producing huge power and torque numbers and still has no reliability issues.

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I drove a Rangie with a TD6 in it and WAS very impressed.

My vote's for the 300 Tdi, sure it's a bit underpowered down low, also a bit underpowered at high revs, the timing belt needs lovin every couple years (at least I get the radiator rodded at the same time) but it's simple. A couple of weeks ago on our CSR trip, just after well 49, the alternator seized the pulley end bearing and the casing broke as we attempted to fix it. The aircon belt fits around the crank, cooling fan, waterpump and reversed around the steer pump. We did 500 km in 5 days like that, try doing that in your fancy Td5 or Puma, in fact I don't even think you could do that in an Isuzu?