2.5td

Hello all,
I'm wanting to rebuild an engine for my 1984 90. I've got a cheap offer of a 2.5td which obviously isn't too different to my 2.5 that i have now. I'd be looking to strip it all down and fully rebuild but having researched on the tinterweb i'm worried that I may be just rebuilding an engine that will still fail on me. Should I just ditch this idea and save my money for a TDI? Or does anyone actually think this 2.5td project is a good idea? Any advice would begreatly appreciated.

Cheers.

yes - but working TDs are fetching reasonable money now

i've found one thats running for 75 quid any good?

well my td has done 130k and survived as am sure yours has however your giving up a canny few bhp if you keep it as is!

130K is about when the rings start wearing out and the pistons start going on holiday

Noooooo don't say that, I'm up at 160,000 miles on mine.

PennyJ said:

Noooooo don't say that, I'm up at 160,000 miles on mine.

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blimey hows you manage that

there's bound to have been at least one that made it past 150K

Sean said:

there's bound to have been at least one that made it past 150K

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looks like its bin found anurl,hope its got aa cover

compression testing mine soon as I rekon the rings am gone. gonna save up for a bashed up tdi disco in the summer and have the engine gbox and tbox away

Good luck with the gearbox

think he just means the tranny box

yeah I was thinking of a depender one. Gunner flog the gbox

Aye - He just messaged me on MSN to tell me how much of a idiot he had been

My local landy garage has just had a 2.5TD thats done over 190,000 miles (no joke) without ever having a rebuild!!!

go for a TDi...

If you've got a 19J that's working fine keep it but I wouldn't bother spending significant money on one. Get a tdi.

my td had 159,000 on the clock when the cambelt went,so it got repaired then it just went back after a couple of weeks,ive now got a 200 tdi and wish i had done it sooner and not kept throwing money at the td.my advice 200tdi all the way..

nelly, remeber ya need another couple hundred quid as well as the disco for the conversion

oh yea, my 110 has 211k on it and only just took the TD out, and it was still running