$5,000.00 is too much for a used engine. You can pay a little more for the one on AB. But I don't know anything about it. Better yet find out who AB gets it from and buy it direct for half the price ha ha.

If you can do the labor yourself you might as well get a junkyard engine.

I would keep it, if you have the money. It's only $5,000.00. Good luck getting a similar feeling used car for that price. Oh wait that's right. There is no similar feeling to an original made in UK LR. IF you get the new TATA LR's , you're not making a good purchase decision. That is how I feel about the new TATA LR's.

What happened that made the engine overheat? Did you get a new max capacity aluminum radiator with grey or inline T-Stat and use green or distilled with 2 bottles of ice/wetter ?

Or did you use the stock T-stat ... stock rad with orange Dex...

 

 

Yeah, originally l was going to say, "dump the wife"...but if that's her exiting the passenger door...she looks kind of cute. Now, if that's your girl friend...then we have to revisit my original thought...lol.

​​​​​​​Good luck, with your endeavor.

Brian.

 

We had an expression when I was in my late teens and early 20's, "women are easy to come by and hard to get rid of"

 

Yes, the frame is perfect. It has never been in an accident nor has it ever rolled over.

 

Yes it overheated and the mechanic said there is coolant in the cylinders. I am not a mechanic, just someone who loves the drive of a D2.

 

I wear gloves when I work on my truck cuz I don't like getting my hands too dirty. Mine needed a headgasket job and it was done over the course of 2 weekends, with a broken head bolt along the way. That was about 18 months ago. Truck still running fine. Haven't seen anything in your posts that makes me think the engine is toast. Sounds like a headgasket, and maybe peripheral stuff. For about $200 or so in parts and a weekend or two, you can see if it's toast, or just a bit broken.

 

Thanks for this advice. I am not very mechanically inclined, but I will ask if a head gasket is all it could be. It sounded to me that since it overheated, and there is coolant in the cylinders, then it means it needs a replacement. I will ask again. And again, thank you.

 

It does great pulling our 1973 Airstream Landyacht. It is 23 feet tail bumper to hitch. Total weight with full tank of water is 3700 lbs and actual tongue weight is 725 lbs. With the OME 2 inch lift it drops a little back, but never drags or scrapes. It would be nicer to have a longer wheel base, but I tow this thing without any stablizers and it does just fine.

 

Any coolant in the oil or just the cylinders? coolant in the oil is usually a blown front cover gasket (cracked cylinders are very rare) and coolant in the cylinders is just a blown head gasket (stock ones do not last forever).