Picking up Disco II today from mechanic after replacing engine for a dropped cylinder sleeve.

Wife says dont bring the old engine home. I really wanted to take it apart and verify that the sleeve really did drop.

My question is there any worthwhile value in an engine that has a blown cylinder sleeve from a used parts perspective. What can I sell off it or is it just a boat anchor at this point?

 

Teardown might reveal something, but hard to say based on where sleeve was when it cooled off.

Aluminum scrap yard. Or great man cave accent piece.....

 

What about the top end of engine, worth anything?

 

I can buy aluminum cylinder heads at LKQ salvage yard for $39, whole engine $199. Post on here, you may get a nibble. Check with you local place that buys scrap cans and such, may get 45 cents a pound or less for mixed aluminum, but won't get what solid clean aluminum brings.

Note: I have always found that when SWMBO says don't do something, and a recent unplanned expense is involved, peace has a price.

 

I had a table like that once but it kept leaving green and brown spots on the rug. Maybe I should have used a Japanese engine block instead of a British one.

 

where you went wrong was not drianing the oil and coolant out of it before you dragged it into the living

 

Cylinder liners cannot drop in a D2 due to the machined lip at bottom of the cylinder. The cylinder wall can crack behind the liner and cause coolant loss and pressurization of the system. Bring it home take it apart so you can see what really happened.

 

I just really feel like that isn't a true statement.

 

Seriously? I really dont care what you feel like as it does not alter reality. When you have some free time drop your oil pan and look up from underneath and you will see on two opposing sides of the cylinder bore the liner is inset flush to a lip. On the d1 there is no lip and in a overheat situation the liner could actually drop down into the bottom of the engine. Here is a cross section of the cylinder bore with liner removed. Notice around the bottom there is a lip the thickness of the liner, the liner can not get past that. The slots are the coolant channels, cracks can form there and casue headgasket failure like symptoms.


Here is another example in car. The lip is broke away revealing the edge of the liner.

 

Yep, isn't that bottom lip an improvement over blocks in the D1's? Or were all 4.0's without the lip?