Rover car engine

Yeah Oil Level Sender.
We have a P4 90 - 1957 and a P4 100 1961 at home to restore when I have time and practically another 2 cars in parts including 2 spare engines.
Can confirm later what the exact part is as have the workshop manual at home.
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1957 P4 90
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1961 P4 100
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1962 P4 100 Donor Car had a 186 Holden engine in it, now in the shed.

My 48 P3 has this sender and gauge fitted as standard. As John mentioned earlier, the smaller Rover car engine as fitted to the P3 (75) is a 2.1 lt 6cyl engine.

If my memory is correct the 6 Cyl rover engine dates back to 1939. The block was the same but there was two cylinder heads in later years the one from the cars was a 9-1 compression and the landrovers use a 7-1 and they were interchange able When I sold my ser 3 I gave a high compression one away to the buyer.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Many Rover cars in the early post war period had a switch to allow the fuel gauge to show engine oil level. I assume the device on the sump is the sender for this.

The engine looks like a typical Rover six from about 1955 on, probably either 2.6 or 3.0l, but I think they also had a smaller one at one stage. The integral intake manifold shows it is a sedan engine not a Landrover one.

John

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All the 2.6's I've seen in land rovers have the integral intake manifold as well. I thought only the U.S. supplied Westlake head had a seperate intake manifold?

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Originally Posted by Homestar

All the 2.6's I've seen in land rovers have the integral intake manifold as well. I thought only the U.S. supplied Westlake head had a seperate intake manifold?

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You are probably right, and I am showing my age - knew there was a distinction but got it wrong!

John

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Originally Posted by hodgo

If my memory is correct the 6 Cyl rover engine dates back to 1939. The block was the same but there was two cylinder heads in later years the one from the cars was a 9-1 compression and the landrovers use a 7-1 and they were interchange able When I sold my ser 3 I gave a high compression one away to the buyer.

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The patent for the engine was issued in 1939, just before the outbreak of war, but it seems very unlikely that any other than perhaps one or two prototypes were built before those fitted to the Landrover in 1948 and the P3 in 1949. So while technically, the engine can be said to date to 1939, in the usual terms it is a 1948 engine.

Rover's prewar engines were quite different, being straight overhead valves, either pushrod or OHC depending on model. (and these continued post war 1945-48)

John