Thread: Rover car engine

Looks like a crankcase breather with oil separator with the oil return on the lower port.

In 1969, one of the staff at the Narrabri Interferometer drove a SWB Series II Land Rover. There were no funds available for vehicle replacement, but plenty for vehicle maintenance.

So he had a 6 cylinder Rover car engine fitted. I wonder if it was the same as this one.

My recollection is that it was a big job and probably cost more than it would have cost to trade it in on a new LR.

It is an oil level sender , works the same as a fuel sender unit . they were std fitment on some of the cars . Next time I am at my workshop I will take a photo of one of the gauges that it works with.

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

The Rover car motors came in 75, 90, 100, 110 HP & also 3Lit. You should be able to work out from the engine number which model rover it is out of.

This is not a 75 as they had large pressed steel side plated in stead of welsh plugs, they also had cast iron cyl heads . This motor looks like it has the Westlake aluminium cylinder head.

My 1595 Land Rover 80" has provision on the side of the sump for one of these sender units. I have one of the senders & I also have a gauge for it to operate that I as considering fitting on Landy now that I am doing some work on her at the moment.

If you let me know the engine number I will contact a mate of mine & find out .

This is an extract from the Rover P3 75 parts book. The oil level sender can be seen here no 98 & in the photo with the gauge item 7 is the switch to change from fuel level to oil level & the gauge is no 35.

Sorry about that not used to using my Tablet to post photo,s & Windows 10 has stoped me from scaning yet again , seams every time they do upgrade they turn every thing off & I normally have to get computer shop to do fix up.
Lets hope it worked this time so sender is no 75 , switch is no 7 & gauge is no 35

Thank you for all the above replies.
It did look very much like some type of sending unit to me.
It is very interesting that this type of technology was available in motor vehicles many decades ago.
In a similar way all the fingertip controls that are available on the steering wheel of modern cars, was also a feature of the Ford Edsel in the late 1950's.


Cheers, Mick.