Please forgive me if this question has already been asked, could not find one that matched my situation.

1997 Land Rover Discovery II
4.0 liter
87K miles


Bought my Rover 2 years ago and love it. The previous owner had just replaced the head gasket. It did smoke very little from tail pipe when I bought it. I have a cabin up in the Ozark Mountains. I noticed from the start, I would have to add 2 quarts of oil when I got up there, 2 hour drive, and 2 quarts when I returned home. Now it is smoking pretty good , still only adding 2 quarts oil on my trip to the cabin.

While trying to figure out my loss of oil, there is something I can't wrap my head around. When up on the mountain, I engage the differential and the smoking stops. The whole time riding up there , no smoke. When I leave and disengage , smoke again.

Also, when driving around in town it wants shift real hard. If I stay on the accelerator when shifting .... it's a normal shift. If I am at a complete stop and take off.... And for some reason if I let off accelerator before it does it's normal shift.. It's a real hard shift.... Almost like I manually slammed it in to low gear at too high rpms.


Thank you in advance for reading my thread .. Any ideas or advice would be appreciated .. I have stopped driving it until I can figure out what could be causing my issues. I really don't want to get rid of her any can't find anyone local that works on them.. They are almost scared when I mention the word Land Rover.

Mike

 

Ahh yes the earliest discovery 2 ever made, 1997?


You may be in the wrong forum

Head gasket failure or worse it sounds like

 

piston rings

 

I would suggest you check your PVC system to see if it is working, otherwise its time for a compression test.
I would not be surprise if the valve seals are all cracked and brittle by now.