The cam should be visible, you all are correct. I edited that part out.
After seeing them motor pics you posted, I think my motor is very clean.
Has a lil black on the rockers, tops of the rocker covers are dirty but the rest looks very clean. It had a decent service record with the truck.

 

So that where I left that. Thanks for finding it for me!

 

Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!

 

So thas where I left that. Thanks bro!

 

Someone just try and tell me the the Rover gods don't have a sence of humor.

 

wishful thinking...General Custard had the same....We know that out come....

 

This is the best advise you are going to get on here...... I think you should have to qualify and take a test to actually buy one of these piles.... The first thing you should do if you actually want to buy a land rover is one...."be f$cking Rich" like most are who buy them or ....If you don't have a wallet full of disposable cash, ......Buy a engine and completely rebuild it and then buy the turd that it sits in. Then be prepared to replace just about everything to get it to where you want it to be......10 k later you can relax for a bit before it starts acting up again.... Nature of the beast....

 

Sounds like the '95 Jag I'm selling. It's not a car, it's a hobby!

 

I'm with Spike on this one. I have two ford diesels that I run for work, and we had to swap an engine in one last year. Driving and maintaing the trucks is one of the biggest expenses I have as a business owner.

Old engine was tired, blew smoke and oil, etc. I switched it to crap oil, water in coolant, and ran the cheapest filters I could find. When it finally cracked a head and died, I had the rebuilt motor waiting on it, and was able to pay for it over time and devote the maintenance fund of the junker to the cost of the "heart transplant". Truck was back on the road in 3 days, and will pull a house down the road now, wheels optional.

It probably could have been saved, but the fact is, engines wear out, and if you buy a used car, particularly one that originally cost $40K+, its expensive to maintain. Just because you paid $4k-10K or whatever you did, doesn't change the fact that parts and service are based on those who buy luxury vehicles. The car industry makes its money on parts and service. Very little margin in new cars.

And if you think these things are expensive, go buy a ford 6.0/6.4 diesel. One of the worst black eyes a company has had in a long time. Ambulance fleet managers here hate those things like the plague. $3K for injectors, $4.5K for headgaskets, $1500 for EGR delete, the list goes on and on.

PS - find the jackwagon who left that wrench in there and beat him with it. Sloppy mechanics make me so mad.

Ok, rant over. Sorry.

 

The Ford Powerstroke is a giant turd, head gaskets go out more than on a Rover, and if you overheat it you not only ruin the heads but the block as well, and then they heads and block cannot be used as a core so you are buying a brand spanking new engine plus the core charge, talk about big bucks.
My friends who own a salvage yard see all kinds of Ford trucks with the Powerstroke that was overheated, these trucks are less than 10yrs old, lots of good parts but the engine is toast and it costs more to replace it than the whole truck is worth.
The Duramax is not as bad, but not that good either.