Thread: Looking for a 5 Bearing Block and Crank 2.25L

they are reasonably rare, I can't remember having seen one for sale about the place. Try somewhere like landrovers.com in melbourne.

I haven't been able to locate a 5 bearing engine so I am now looking for a good cond. 3 bearing diesel crank, Thanks Again, Regards Frank.

G'day Folks

the 5 bearing motor was only fitted to the very late Series 3 Station Wagon that was Imported into Australia as a complete vehicle and was never CKD they came in from late 80 onwards, they also had adifferent Flywheel, and Flywheel bolts as well as Flywheel housing, I have a 5brg Crank, flywheel, and housing, but no block, "It had a puncture in it, where No 4 Conrod went out, have the piston, bigend, just missing 2inches of conrod " The motor let go at 120kph, on the Bruce Highway they would spin so well that all you could hear was "Valve Bounce" if you are looking for more power I would go 200TDI

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Folks

the 5 bearing motor was only fitted to the very late Series 3 Station Wagon that was Imported into Australia as a complete vehicle and was never CKD they came in from late 80 onwards, they also had adifferent Flywheel, and Flywheel bolts as well as Flywheel housing, I have a 5brg Crank, flywheel, and housing, but no block, "It had a puncture in it, where No 4 Conrod went out, have the piston, bigend, just missing 2inches of conrod " The motor let go at 120kph, on the Bruce Highway they would spin so well that all you could hear was "Valve Bounce" if you are looking for more power I would go 200TDI

Uncle Ho, that must have been exciting, I had a pinion shaft in a Toyota BJ40 rear diff lose it's nut and drop back into the diff, jamming the diff solid at about 90klm/h just over the top of the Gladesville bridge in Sydney in a downpour, resulting in a 300 metre series of 360 spins, in peak hour traffic, somehow never hit anyone, was less than a week old.
I was hoping to get a 5 bearing block and crank to replace the snapped (3 bearing) crank and block in a recently required 78 Series III. I'm not after a big increase in power, but I figured if I wanted to spruce it up a bit with extractors, decent exhaust system and clean up the ports, then it might be wise to go for the stronger 5 bearing block and crank, Regards Frank.