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Vehicle & Technical => Not Anything Listed Above.... => Topic started by: bigant on September 23, 2006, 15:37:35

Title: whats this?...
Post by: bigant on September 23, 2006, 15:37:35: ok i know its a desiel engine but what type..... it has a adaptor plate to a landrover gearbox that i also have but i need help in figureing out what type of engine it is.... it was given to me for free but now i am stuck as to what it is lol any help would be wonderfull ^^

some pic i have of taken of it..

(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine7.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine6.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine5.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine1.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine3.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/bessy_09/engine2.jpg)
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Post by: defenderdan on September 23, 2006, 16:01:39: I'm not that well up on engines but it looks like an early landrover 2 1\4 to me.
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Post by: bigant on September 23, 2006, 16:19:45: aye thats what i thought when it arrived but y would a landy engine have a addaptor plate? and its got qualcast head (dont they make lawnmowers)...
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Post by: wing nut on September 23, 2006, 16:29:08: it looks like an early sherpa lump :? but i couldnt be sure :?
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Post by: Devon-Rover on September 23, 2006, 20:42:32: What does the engine number say?

On the first picture look on the slanting plate that is on the RH side of the engine, I.e the side that the first piccy has taken. near the front kind of halfway between the manifold and the water pump.

That'll reveal all.
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Post by: hobbit on September 23, 2006, 22:50:57: Could be its been in something else and thats the ring for it, but def a 2.25 diesel landy lump, thing is were they not fitted in loads of the austin taxis (Black cabs)?
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Post by: bigant on September 23, 2006, 22:59:23: right engine number is

a 2 then under it says 541874 any help
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Post by: Andy the Landy on September 23, 2006, 23:07:38: Looks like a 2 1/4 diesel from a 2A - has water shut off tap for heater and a DPA pump.
Could the adapter plate be for fitting a Landy engine to a different gearbox - such as a marine installation :? ( only thinking this way as a neighbour has a canal boat with a 2 1/4 Landy diesel in it)
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Post by: steve_h on October 03, 2006, 23:43:25: Nah, thats not an adapter plate, its the standard Landy flywheel housing. You can tell by the hole and cover plate used to check the timing marks on the flywheel.

Oh, and it says "Dualcast" on your head. I've got a petrol version in my '68 series 2A, 1959-61 vintage (the engine), it predates the landy its in by 7-9 years!

Whats unusual is that my petrol engine is the one that ran alongside the early two litre diesel in the series two. Its got smaller big end bearings and a different water pump to later 2 1/4 engines.

Steve.
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Post by: jjsaul on October 03, 2006, 23:45:45: Quote from: "bigant"
right engine number is

a 2 then under it says 541874 any help

6 digit code you will probably find is an LR part number

(i did learn something working at craddocks :lol: )
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Post by: TEMPL4R on October 04, 2006, 20:39:17: It says Qualcast, the Foundry in Derby, they later made lawnmowers. The numbers on the block are the Casting Number, from the Foundry.

The Black Cabs had 2.5 BMC Diesels, then Nissans.
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Post by: richard_sephton on October 04, 2006, 22:30:46: i have seen that engine in a s3. its missing a valve on the intake vor the vacume servo