What to do ?

Ok what should I do ?

After 6 months and a fair bit of money I finally got my Series 3 ready for it's first MOT in 4 years. On the way to the test centre the engine lunched itself and broke a piston.

What should I do ?

Tell the garage to scrap the vehicle with a load of new parts on it ?

Try and get another engine for it ? If so where can I get a 2.25 diesel that I know won't fall to bits before I get it on the road ?

Sell it as it is for chump change on Ebay ?

I don't really feel up to breaking the vehicle myself, and besides it means bringing the Landy 20 miles home which will cost, and then having to spend hours selling all the bits on ebay for pennies.


Simon

wouldnt break it, how much to get it back to yours and fit a new set of pistons? £100 for parts maybe? honing tool and few minutes near a hot radiator to fit em on the rods.... what we talking £150 including transport to fix it?

Give it to me as a christmas prezzie.

Scrap it?
Against
A lot of work removing the bits
Mess over your drive for months (Not a happy wife)
Not all bits get sold
You won’t get all your money back

For
You get some money back
You learn a lot about stripping a Landy

Fix it?

Against
More money
More work
Mess over your drive for months (Not a happy wife)

For
It’s a landy (we do this for the fun of it (I think))
Shopping avoidance (Tesco or working on the Landy you choose)



Personally I would fix it.
The usual cycle goes like this.

First we buy it (Money = Money - cost)
Then we Fix it (Money = Money - cost)
Then we play with it and break it.
Then we Fix it (Money = Money - cost)
Then we loop around the last 3 steps in a "for next" loop until the
“Money” = 0 or wife = ****ed off.
Then we sell it (Some cash back)

I hope this helps

Rusty - That's assuming the damaged piston hasn't damaged the block, and if so that's way out of my league.

Grunt - As long as you give me a working one in return!

Clivees - This is all my options in one place for sure. On the plus side I don't have a wife to get cross, but this is balanced by not actually having a drive! So that's all my neighbours upset by making a mess of the communal parking area!

get one of them 99p engines fro mfleabay and stick it in..

slob said:

get one of them 99p engines fro mfleabay and stick it in..

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To bad there's nothing on Ebay that fits!

And fleabay is where I bought this piece of crap to begin with...I really wish I'd never clapped eyes on it. It's cost a fortune already and as soon as it goes for it's first MOT, the first time I ever get to drive on the road, it dies.

SirTainly said:

And fleabay is where I bought this piece of crap to begin with...I really wish I'd never clapped eyes on it. It's cost a fortune already and as soon as it goes for it's first MOT, the first time I ever get to drive on the road, it dies.

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The joys of Landrover ownership
welcome to the club.

this the same bloke§????

SirTainly
Junior Member Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 12


Greetings!

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After having been a Landy fan since I was a child (a child of a one time Land Rover employee), I've finally bought my first one and I don't know why I waited so long!

...so hello folks!

Yeah it's amazing what a difference six months of work and money down the drain does to me. I was very excited at the pospect of actually getting the vehicle on the road again, and at the time it fired up well and I was able to drive it around the parking area.

I never wanted to get into doing engine swaps or rebuilds as I don't have the facilities or tools to do those.

You have 2 choices. Fix or sell. Both will cost you but The choice is yours alone.Except for some advice from her indoors.

After all you have done I would try and fix it. Personaly I would drop a diesel into it, but as you say you don't have the facilities.

I scrapped a 2.25 petrol engine about a month ago!

It was off a donor vehicle.

They are about, i have a 2.25 diesel in my 2a... looking to fit a 200 tdi or a perkins.

In fact.... buy yourself a montego for £100.

Strip it, engine out. Put it in yours, and scour the scrapyards looking for a sherpa van (you would need the bellhousing)

If your happy, keep it.
If not... sell the ****er!


Just dont, whatever you do, for gods sake dont scrap the thing!!

Otherwise the "70% of all lannys made are still on the road"
statement would take a severe hit and may end up being 69.999999999999999999999999999%


... and that just isnt good enough!

Sounds like the guy is on an, understandable, downer and maybe needs the enthusiasm of the landy nutters to keep him from giving up.

As someone who is just starting this journey with all the highs and lows that goes with owning/running an old landy, I expect my current enthusiasm to be severely tested - but if it was as simple as buying some faceless 'perfect' vehicle from a showroom, we wouldn't get so attached, or get such a rewarding, character-ful vehicle at the end of the day. I wouldn't be on a steep curve learning mechanics etc. It's fun, it's hard but it's definitely worth it!*

If you can mate, stick with it. But, at the end of the day, do what causes you the least pain. Life's too short.

*This post was partially fuelled by several pints of Belhaven Best. My apologies *hic*

just keep yer eyes on ebay fer a 2.25 petrol engine, you should get one fer about 40 quid the its a straight swap

steep lurnin curve fer a series????thank fook you ain't got a modern car like from the later part of last century.you need climbing ropes and clamp-ons and stuff, and possible a oxygen mask

I have got a modern car mate, it's really reliable, fast and comfortable (I know, how boring). I pay for it and the wife drives it! Apparantly you fix it by plugging it into a pc.

It will be a cold day in hell (or alternatively several tikka masalas and some 'favours') before she drives my Landy.

I've only ever serviced my old metro (don't laugh) back several years, so I have a lot to learn. I've looked at a service manual and whilst I can fathom some of it, my head starts to hurt when I see diagrams of engine blocks and transmissions........