TD5 reco engine swap, who's done it?

[Alex_hazard]

As per my previous thread (Help with purchasing a TD5 110!)

I am considering purchasing a 110 with 480,000km on the original TD5 engine. Obviously, this probably wont last that long, so I need to consider what would happen in the event of a failure.

I have seen quite a few reco engines for sales on ebay and the likes for about $1500-2500. Has anyone removed and fitted a TD5 engine, and are the different iterations of the engine (eg. 10P vs16P) all interchangeable? How difficult is the swap?

The car im looking at has had a lot of chassis and driveline work done, and I'm sure I would get at least another 100,000km out of it (which would take me a very long time). Any advice wis welcome, I have been told it's a bad idea and a good idea, so I'm weighing it all up in my head. If I could get it for $11,500 I will probably go for it.

Thanks!

Alex

1999 Land Rover Defender Wagon | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Alice Springs Area - Alice Springs | 1136230399

[mfc]

We just swapped a d2 eu2 engine into an eu3 car using the eu3 ecu, swapped over the front pipe from the eu3 engine onto the eu2 so the coolant pipes would stay the same( there different between eu2 and eu3 ) all that needed to be done apart from that was change the ecu codes with a nanocom.
Hope that's of some value , the whole job will be much easier on a defender( heaps more room)
Regard mark

[loanrangie]

looks fairly clean and with everything bar the motor rebuilt should go a while longer so you could buy a spare motor and do it up ready for a swap over when required.