Gold Seal Engines

Am going to look at a disco with 220k on the clock apparently with a "gold seal" replacement engine (not sure when changed).Does any one know anything about these engines, someone said they are factory reconditioned units,and is there a way of checking via the engine number.

many
thanks
jim

Gold Seal were the BMC factory reconditioned engines, very popular for Minis, Morris Minors etc in the 60s & 70s. I had no idea the term was still being used in Discovery days

thats whats worrying me, read somewhere something similar, perhaps she is just calling it a gold seal engine, perhaps someone just spayed it,
thanks for reply
jim

Davec said:

Gold Seal were the BMC factory reconditioned engines, very popular for Minis, Morris Minors etc in the 60s & 70s. I had no idea the term was still being used in Discovery days

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I was going to say that Davec . I had one in my mini van.

jimbo-570, If U do a google search with the title Gold Seal Engine u will find loads of info on the subject.

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"QUOTE(Retro_10s @ May 15 2007, 10:10 AM)
There is a FAQ with all the engine numbers on, if you use the search button you'll find it.
**edit - though i don't know if it covers the Gold/silver seal engines...

Anyway, you're quite right, The gold seal and Silver seal engines were Factory Replacement engines built up by Unipart. It's generally accepted that they were built up with a little more care. People who have driven the Unipart engines all seem to agree that they were spot on, the 998 I drove last year was absolutely perfect, and untouched since installation! It also seems the engine, more often than not, had their bores linered,... Liners are reputable for being much more hard wearing than the original bores so this is another plus point!

Every now and then a Unipart engine will pop up on Ebay, usually still In it's crate. Whilst the 998's aren't so sought after,... if you could find an 1100 or 850 Unipart engine still crated up with documents etc it'd be worth a pretty penny!"
Found plenty on the gold seal engines but nothing refering to landrovers and when they stopped making them. will keep looking
many thanks