Thread: how do you rate 6 cyl series rover engine

Originally Posted by scarry

Didnt They use the 6 cyl rover engine in some of the rover cars?... <snip>

yes basically the whole of the P4 model range apart from the 60? and 80 (the 80 BTW had the Land Rover 2.25 engine.)

Although the Land Rover version is actually based on a downsized 3 litre P5 Rover car engine. If you look at the first of the Land Rover 6 cyl (SIIA export forward controls in 1963) they even had the same water pump as the 3 litre.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

yes basically the whole of the P4 model range apart from the 60? and 80 (the 80 BTW had the Land Rover 2.25 engine.)

Although the Land Rover version is actually based on a downsized 3 litre P5 Rover car engine. If you look at the first of the Land Rover 6 cyl (SIIA export forward controls in 1963) they even had the same water pump as the 3 litre.

Thought you would come up with an answer......your wealth of knowledge is unreal........

What about the thing that made it freewheel......do you know what that was,i am sure it was factory fitted.....the old man departed this world in 1984,so cant ask him anything

It may have been a round sort of knob under the dash that you screwed to turn on & off....its interesting as i have never seen anything like it since

Originally Posted by scarry

Thought you would come up with an answer......your wealth of knowledge is unreal........

What about the thing that made it freewheel......do you know what that was,i am sure it was factory fitted.....the old man departed this world in 1984,so cant ask him anything

It may have been a round sort of knob under the dash that you screwed to turn on & off....its interesting as i have never seen anything like it since

It was a cable operated mechanism on the input shaft which disconnected the input shaft from the rest of the gearbox on the over-run.

Originally Posted by scarry

Thought you would come up with an answer......your wealth of knowledge is unreal........

What about the thing that made it freewheel......do you know what that was,i am sure it was factory fitted.....the old man departed this world in 1984,so cant ask him anything

It may have been a round sort of knob under the dash that you screwed to turn on & off....its interesting as i have never seen anything like it since

Basically it was a sprag clutch, like the one in the gear cluster on a pushbike. Turned the other way around the Rover one was used in the 1948-(early)1951 80" Land Rover to make the constant 4X4.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Basically it was a sprag clutch, like the one in the gear cluster on a pushbike. Turned the other way around the Rover one was used in the 1948-(mid)1950 80" Land Rover to make the constant 4X4.

Free wheel units like this were introduced on cars in the 1930's, mainly because when fitted with one of these you can easily and noiselessly change gears without having synchromesh, as the gearbox stops moving almost as soon as you disengage the clutch. While the general introduction of synchromesh made them somewhat redundant, they continued to be fitted to semiluxury and luxury British cars into the sixties, as they make it easy to drive very smoothly. They were often combined with overdrive to give extra gears.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Free wheel units like this were introduced on cars in the 1930's, mainly because when fitted with one of these you can easily and noiselessly change gears without having synchromesh, as the gearbox stops moving almost as soon as you disengage the clutch. While the general introduction of synchromesh made them somewhat redundant, they continued to be fitted to semiluxury and luxury British cars into the sixties, as they make it easy to drive very smoothly. They were often combined with overdrive to give extra gears.

John

My 1969 Toyota Crown had that system.

It was great. With a 3 speed column shift the overdrive gave four gears on the way up and five on the way down. It was especially useful towing a caravan.

It could be locked out for engine breaking, but then I didn't have the overdrive available.

That wasn't really a problem because generally when I needed engine braking I didn't need overdrive.

Mind you it used to frighten the daylights out of people who were not used to it who drove forward in first gear and expected the car to virtually stop when they lifted their foot.

As usual a plethora of information that I am most grateful to everyone for sharing. I am definitely still going to go series diesel. The 202 is serving well getting its neck wrung on the freeway everyday even at 15l/100klm its reliable. The wishlist is an overdrive and a series diesel because of the amount of klms i drive (average 800-1000 per week). It stays on the wishlist for a while longer I need a new ride-on mower.


A fortnight away from the computer good to get my landy fix again.

Why don't you just up the gearing?.Changing engines will not make a series a highway cruiser and an O/D will drive you mad.You need 3.54 diffs or if you go more off-road fit the centres out of the above mentioned P5 salloons,they are 3.9.They bolt straight into rover diffed LR's. Pat