Series 2 ford transit bannana engine

Just bought a series 2 with a transit bannana engine fitted, its got a milner conversion plate to landy box, sounds great not had chance to try it yet as needs throttle linkage, anybody got any veiws on thie engine?

not sure what you mean by banana engine but my mate has a lightweight with a 2.5di transit lump good engine economical and torquey but you will be needing some ear defenders cause its bloody noisy

Bunch of banana manifold over the top of the engine. 2.5 DI. Bulletproof engine.

They will run veg as well iirc.

thats what i like to hear, bullet proof

I Have the pre banananananana, great engine- until the cam belt tensioner pulley came off- it snapped - a faulty component when I did the cam belt ,
push rods buggered but engine remains ok.
It is so much superior to the land rover 2.25 or 2.5.
and economical.

We've had a couple of cabs with the pre-banana engine and found the same thing - fairly economical, plenty power, easy to fix. Only drawback - a tad noisy.

one of my series 3's has the pre-banana engine fitted ...a bit noisy yes (Being direct injection) BUT mid to late 30's to the gallon and solidly reliable AND will pull the 88 up steep crawls without a heap of tyre shredding as its got plenty of low down torque .

My lightweight and 110 both had transit di (pre banana) engines in them. Both now have 200tdi....
Biggest issue is that they can't really be used for proper offroading due to the timing chest and the bellhousing not being sealed, eventually your cambelt will snap and s/motor or clutch get gunked up. Also Can sometimes be tricky to start in v cold weather due to not having glow plugs.

If it's difficult to start in any conditions then there's other problems than Di....
Mine has chimed in within a couple of turns even at severely minus temps after being left for 6 months or so...
Yup timing belt is 'supposedly' vulnerable to water however I've never had a problem...
Luck of the draw? Maybe

Serious offroading not suitable...
Hmmm I'd have to argue with that one after some of the fun I've had with mine ;-)

Can only speak as I find. Both had the cambelts snap after playing in the mud and wet, timing case ended up full of mud. When I took the engine out on one the bell housing also had mud in it which had affected the clutch.
A hard lesson learned - twice :-(

On the upside, the timing belt is easy to change and you only get bent pushrods, on one I just straightened them out and put em back in, fitted new belt and it fired up fine!