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Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: gtomo2 on June 06, 2010, 05:57:10
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Loking at getting me a new motor and one i am intrested in is this one http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_popup.jsp?did=27955&pageid=1&originalid=&gid=nogroup&tid=40&start=6&distance=0&adcategory=cars&channel=DEALERPAGE&id=201022360400138 Just not sure cos of the milage at 83,000 dont want to have to get a new engine for it in a few months. So any tell tail signs to look out for to know if the heads or liners are on there way out. Thanks
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Well went to look at it and is up for £6995 not what the ad said had a look around and all the motors were at least £1000 more than the ad so walked away.
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FYI the later V8s are supposedly better because the equipemnt used to check the metal thickness around the bores was better and they were better cast in the first place.
Conventional wisdom suggest that an engine which overheats more than twice is likley to suffer a cracking of the block under the top deck, about a half inch below the top of the bore which causes the liner to slip in some case because the liners were never driven fully home onto their stops in the bottom of the bore.
So a good service hsitory is important as is a healthy cooling system that appears to have been maintained well throughout it's life.
Look inside for signs of balck death too, a well cared for V8 will be light brown inside, not black.
The gaskets are the later composite type and although they do sometimes fail on their own it's not common, a recent head work suggest deeper problems.
There are hundreds however running about in fine fettle, so choose widely and things will be fine.
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if it has gas on walk away as this does cause some of the overheating problems poorly maintained don't help if you can stretch get the 4.6 more go and mpg