Thread: series 3 hand brake light switch

G'day Lucas

The 5 bearing motor is uncommon in Australia, as the only ones that I know of came in with fully built up vehicles,(Station Wagons) as the loally assembled vehicles used up the 3 bearing motors, the 5 arrived about late 1981, and Series sales ended in 82, when the Coil Sprung Vehicles arrived,in 1984, they were only available as V8 or 3.9 Isuzu diesels, they never imported the 4 cylinder motor although it went on in other parts of the world until 1989. part are a little hard to get, as that motor had several changes to the Crankshaft, Flywheel, were 8:1 comp heads, and had a heap of anti-pollution gear on them. this block design eventually became the Turbo diesel, and the 200TDI parts are easily available from UK through companies like A.E.Paddock, John Craddock Ltd.


NOTE: the 5 bearing motor will revv quite freely, and when over-revved will throw No4 conrod out of the side of the block I have replaced 2 of these motors, same problem, the 3 bearing will shake YOU apart first and Yes, the blocks are common shared.

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