USE OR AVOID britpart gaskets for my td5

Hi pricing up gaskets to rebuild my td5 engine from ground up should i be using britpart gaskets from paddocks and if not where should I be looking

cheers steve

Hi Steve, I recently had a cylinder gasket kit from padocks, whilst i can't comment on the gaskets I can tell you that the injector o rings and copper washers looked very poor.
You could see a seam on the O rings with even a piece "extra " material still attached to it. The copper washers had both a smaller outside and larger inside diameter, making them a very sloppy fit and according to a local expert prone to "burning" through, resulting in exhaust gas presure in the fuel system. I don't recall if they offer gasket sets but Turners engineering do everything else and I have heard that they are good quality. I will be very cautious of Britpart in future and try and avoid.

Thanks for the reply its just the feedback i've been looking for, I used land rover injector seals when i did my seals, I have been looking on turners engineering at some prices, thay are more expensive but if i am getting better quality I would much prefer to pay the extra as a full engine re-build is not something you do everyday.

thanks for the reply and if theres anyone else that have had good or bad experiences i would like to hear.

steve's P38 RR said:

Hi pricing up gaskets to rebuild my td5 engine from ground up should i be using britpart gaskets from paddocks and if not where should I be looking

cheers steve

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I ordered some parts parts from paddocks a few weeks back. I ordered genuine copper washers which arrived individually wrapped in landrover packaging and all with the same part number on the outside but one of the washers was a smaller diameter than the rest but much thicker.

The OEM O rings that I received were britpart.

I ordered the Britpart rocker gasket as I'm hoping that there isn't too much that can go wrong with that and it was cheap enough that if it did turn out to be rubbish I can fit a genuine LR one when I whip the rocker cover back off to re-torque the injector clamps in a month or so's time. Give them their due, it did appear to be of the same quality as the one that I removed though.

The 'non specified' (and only one listed) injector loom also turned out to be britpart.