What is the best way to go about teaching myself about engines?

Hi all, still very new to the landrover world and wanting to learn more. Basically I want to learn more about landrover engines, and thinking of stripping one down and rebuilding it, is this a good idea? Should I just buy any engine, however prices start at £300 ish on fleabay.

Best thing to if your serious is to spend that £300 on a Disco (they are dead cheap) and strip and rebuild the whole thing.. You'll learn how the engine works but also how to weld,fabricate,bodge,weld,more welding and you may even start praying to some sort of god to make the "Bloody heap work"!!


Good luck mate

Thanks for the advice, I would love to go for a whole disco and rebuild it but the main problem is space there`s no room on the drive with my 110 and another car, but I may be able to squeeze an engine into my room. Or the other thing I was thinking was to see if anyone in my area wanted help with any defender projects, me helping in return for being taught bits and pieces

Depends what engine you want to learn about perhaps... They're all basically the same technology... Just some have more gizmos than others. If you have a 110 then is it petrol or diesel engines you want to learn about? I've been looking for the right v8 for my 110 project recently but I noticed during my search just how many v8 engines (different makes) can be picked up for 100 quid ish.

If your into diesels, you could even just go round a scrappy and find a diesel engine and rebuild that. Doesn't matter what it is really. If you want to do a landy engine because you'll want to fit it to yours in the future then maybe it'll be more expensive as you're being more specific.

Get yourself a beater 125cc motorcycle and take that apart. Internal combustion is all pretty much the same. Plus if you're lucky, once you're finished you might have a half-decent bike too

Get a Haynes book of lies, and a landrover service manual and look for an old book like 'AA Book of the Car' - that's what my dad taught me with.

Then give it a go, start with small jobs using the Haynes and I get at guides and build your confidence that way.

Presumably you want to know so you can do your own service work? If not just watch a YouTube video

Defiantly recommend the old AA book .Found my old one and had a read and found loads of good information that applied to the early 90's & 110's. much better than the Haynes "Refer to dealer quotes" you get these days