Disco 1 Engine and Box removal

Hi all,

Been with Landyzone for a while but only with 90's and 110's

Ive got my hands on a Disco 1 300tdi, and want to remove the engine and box and TC (complete is poss) - to placee into a LR 90

Is ther an easy way of doing this / is there a butchers guide as I will be scrapping the rest of the car afterwards? I have a decent engine lift but wonder if the whole lot will be very unbalanced?

Once its out of the car, I will only require the engine (hoping to sell box separatley). Getting the 300tdi bolted to my LT77 will take a bit of fettling but have seen a few guides that make is sound easy... (backplates etc)

Thanks

Chris

Have a read through this, I must say I split mine only because I thought it would be easier and was concerned about the weight on the arm of the engine crane as it was fully extended

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/disco-300tdi-swap-into-90td-273498.html

Its not difficult just time consuming. You can struggle with splitting if you cant get at top bellhousing bolts. Id go all in one its not too heavy for any decent crane but is a two man job. I would get out the grinder for access and remove front of rad completely. Take bonnet off. After that its just unbolt, unhook and unplug lots of stuff.

ronsealdeath said:

Its not difficult just time consuming. You can struggle with splitting if you cant get at top bellhousing bolts. Id go all in one its not too heavy for any decent crane but is a two man job. I would get out the grinder for access and remove front of rad completely. Take bonnet off. After that its just unbolt, unhook and unplug lots of stuff.

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Mine must be a cheap one then

if your scraping the disco then it'll come out complete....

Cut the bonnet landing panel off. Remove the front antiroll bar from the chassis. Rope/chain/whatever at rear of engine between sump and bellhousing is as good as youll get...still a bit tail heavy but it has to come out at an angle anyway.

Its heavy...it'll be high so make sure you dont have a chocolate crane

if you have chocolate crane, remove engine mounts while holding with grane, leave gearbox mounts alone, then drop the engine past the steering box and the bolts on the bell housing are easy to get to for splitting engine and gear box, jam a lump of wood under gearbox between gearbox & gearbox mounts, to stop it hanging in mid air when you pull engine forward, as EeEK said cut the bonnet landing panel out as I had a job getting the engine over this when I did it.

This is the fastest way...
Not sure it's the smartest, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVmXukx_Gk

Gearmuncher said:

if you have chocolate crane, remove engine mounts while holding with grane, leave gearbox mounts alone, then drop the engine past the steering box and the bolts on the bell housing are easy to get to for splitting engine and gear box, jam a lump of wood under gearbox between gearbox & gearbox mounts, to stop it hanging in mid air when you pull engine forward, as EeEK said cut the bonnet landing panel out as I had a job getting the engine over this when I did it.

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That's a brilliant shout - sounds simple enough lol

Cheers for the advice

Chris

Marmaduke said:

Have a read through this, I must say I split mine only because I thought it would be easier and was concerned about the weight on the arm of the engine crane as it was fully extended

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/disco-300tdi-swap-into-90td-273498.html

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Brilliant write up, that will help me no end!

Is there anything you would have done differently?

Cheers again

Chris

I tried to cut the engine mounts off the chassis but it was tricky to get the angle grinder at a decent angle so I ended up cutting the chassis around the mount out and then removing the mount from the cutout if that makes sense and I spent a day trying different ways to get at the three top bell housing bolts before taking a hammer to the heater panel and cutting through the fire wall. But it's made it so much nicer to drive than my old 19j

Marmaduke said:

I tried to cut the engine mounts off the chassis but it was tricky to get the angle grinder at a decent angle so I ended up cutting the chassis around the mount out and then removing the mount from the cutout if that makes sense and I spent a day trying different ways to get at the three top bell housing bolts before taking a hammer to the heater panel and cutting through the fire wall. But it's made it so much nicer to drive than my old 19j

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Yeah I bet is has, mine is a 2.5 na and to be honest it couldn't pull the skin off a custard - im hoping for a big improvement!

Engine mounts make sense - do you just match the height to the disco? The three bell housing nuts worry me slightly but will just get "stuck in" if required...

Cheers bud

chriswood6725 said:

Yeah I bet is has, mine is a 2.5 na and to be honest it couldn't pull the skin off a custard - im hoping for a big improvement!

Engine mounts make sense - do you just match the height to the disco? The three bell housing nuts worry me slightly but will just get "stuck in" if required...

Cheers bud

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Yeah I did mine by eye and I literally spent a day trying to get the three bolts undone and I couldn't get the bolt on mounts undone, I took someones advice and decided to get at it through the transmission tunnel, after spending a couple of hours methodically undoing little nuts and screws and cutting my fingers to shreds I lost my rag and took a lump hammer to the heater controls and within five minutes I was cutting a hole in the floor and it was all chips and gravy

Are you swapping the power steering over as well?

Marmaduke said:

Yeah I did mine by eye and I literally spent a day trying to get the three bolts undone and I couldn't get the bolt on mounts undone, I took someones advice and decided to get at it through the transmission tunnel, after spending a couple of hours methodically undoing little nuts and screws and cutting my fingers to shreds I lost my rag and took a lump hammer to the heater controls and within five minutes I was cutting a hole in the floor and it was all chips and gravy

Are you swapping the power steering over as well?

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Mine currently has powersteering that I was hoping i could make work again - I have the option of removing any bits I may need from the disco though..

Really appriciate your thoughts

Chris

Complete power steering system, front and rear axles depending upon condition as this will give you disk brakes all around, wheels and tyres again depending upon condition. Depends on how much work you want to do and how much money you want to recoup from selling the parts off the discovery