I was thumbing through an old copy of LRM and came across an ad for these guys. It came to mind that many years ago I used to use their dyno facility on my race car engines. Having seen some of their work first hand it's of the highest possible quality. Pricewise, I haven't a clue whether it's cheap or expensive so I must assume reasonable but they seem to reman the V8 Rover engine to overcome most of the common problems mentioned on here. Just a thought for you guys. (mine's a TD5 )

Turner Engineering - Remanufacturer of Land Rover Engines and supplier of Land Rover engine parts

 

Turner does good work, all over the board.

 

I saw on their website they sell the flanged liners seperately. I wonder has anyone installed their own? I have a 4.0 block in my parts truck. How much machining? Would it be cheaper than buying a short block?

 

It's very easily doable by a machine shop. Once setup at the right angle it's a matter of line boring a shoulder rebate on each bore. The shoulder concentricity can be done either by clocking into each bore with a dial gauge or indexing along the the correct centres of each bore (data available I believe in RAVE). With a sturdy vertical borer or vertical milling machine with a decent boring head this is a simple operation but the difficulty may come when pressing/sweating in the bore liners. Any reman machine shop worth their salt should be able to do this as a 'bread and butter' operation and probably significantly less cost than a new block already prepared. I have never done this but it would be worth enquiring at a reman machine shop for the costs.

 

toad2;

installing flanged liner is not a DYI project