Thread: Bye Bye Permagrin

Before taking it to the wreckers,see if they have a Territory motor.Others have swapped out their blown Land Rover motors for the Ford.

I have thought of a new engine, depends on how the dollars add up. I have been toying with getting a replacement for a while, a station wagon dosent really suit our needs anymore but was hanging on to see what happened in the dual cab ute market in the next 12 months or so, this has kind of forced my hand.
The Disco is worth between 15 - 20K in going order, a new engine is going to cost me a minimum of $6K fitted for a second hand territory unit.
I'm thinking that it may be better to sell the disco as a project or scrap it and sell the accessories ( bullbar, long range tank, spare tyre carrier, roofrack, LLams etc) than to spend $6k and then sell it.

Regards,
Tote

Are you planning on inspecting the engine to find out what exactly stopped it?

Originally Posted by Tote

.....engine made a brief noise like it was accelerating and siezed to the point where it won't turn over. My bet woud be the mount for the timing pulley letting go. No overheating, oil still looks OK.

That sucks. I feel for your dilemma having spent close to 5K doing the big-ends on my MY04 Liberty GT, only to spend another couple of K redoing the turbo 18 months and not many K's later. It has done 200k but i'll admit to "neglecting" the servicing for a while there as we had other financial priorities. it has come back to bite me though!

Should have got rid of it when i had that bad feeling a few years back.

Can i ask? How many k's had it done? What was the servicing schedule like? (not an accusation- just a question)

Sounds like the oil pump flange failure. At least it sounds the same as my failure, at least mine was under warranty. So I still have the permagrin.

On the TDV6 the oil pumps are supposed to be replaced at 150K, new design that doesn't have the same design fault.

The vehicle had 265,000 KM on it, oil changes with the correct flavour of Caltex Magnatec every six months regardless of KM ( it's been semi retired for the last few years after doing 40,000 km a year)
Timing belts were done at 160,000 as per the schedule but I don't think there was an awareness that the oil pump casing needed to be changed when my belts were done. I was banking on it being OK since it had done nearly 100K since the belts were done.
Still not 100% sure what to do, the problem is that a wagon doesn't really fit our requirements any more. On the upside there's no money owing on it and I have other vehicles as daily drivers so I have the luxury of considering what to do.

Regards,
Tote

not sure whats to wait for,,
new toyota,
new triton,
nearly new izusu,
older mazda,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

not sure whats to wait for,,
new toyota,
new triton,
nearly new izusu,
older mazda,

New defender maybe.




Cheers Ean