What to look out for when buying a TD5?

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeight!

Im moving up from a 2.5 N/A to possibly a TD5! originally wanted a 300, but a TD5 has come up at the right price. I know what to look for re, X member, chassis blah blah blah but what i want to know is, what to look for on the engine. obviously smoke and turbo whine but is there anything else other than the norm? tell-tale stuff that a TD5 is worn? i dont want to buy a dog! its a T plate and done around 100k. dont know much else yet, hopefully know more Fri night, as it may allready be sold.

Cheers once again,

G

dont the oil pump blow emselves to bits or summat?

thats alot of help, cheers

sorry Griff - but I thort i heard summat about an oil pump bolt or summat on the early TD5's.

serves yoself rite fur not going to MT .

i was worried about it being an early TD5 actually not sure what to expect.

there are peeps wot know loads more than me about TD5's.

The Mad Hat Man said:

there are peeps wot know loads more than me about TD5's.

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i bloody well hope so!

so do i - but at least i tried

ask charlesy he seems to the clued up person on the td5 lump

The Mad Hat Man said:

there are peeps wot know loads more than me about landrovers

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Dunt they make blank cassette tapes??? or is that TDK's

very tru, Yella - but i try and be helpful.

stig said:

ask charlesy he seems to the clued up person on the td5 lump

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yer, im waiting for him to spot this thread . like i said, it may be sold allready, so i may not even get to go look at it we will see come fri

CharlesY and BushTwot are the Teedeefive eggsperts.

As far as I know, a batch of early TD5s had no threadlock on the oil pump bolt, leading to catastrophic failure. if it's done 100k and not failed, shirley it must be OK.
The other one is oil ingress into the injector harness leading to ecu problems.

yer, i heard of oil ingress to ECU. hoping to counteract this by getting the extension leads and putting it up high. also helps to get it away from water.

Yeah, Treworgeys right.

Land Rover forgot to apply Loctite on the threads of the bolt that secures the oil pump in place. Over time it worked loose causing loss of oil pressure and engine failure.



Don't worry though, if it hasn't come of by now it won't as it's probably been sorted.

All I can say is to get in and give it a good testdrive, check the service history, cause if it's been done properly at 100k it shouldn't be worn out. Check for smoke when you plant your foot, and it should pull in 5th from 35mph upto 80+.

and check out

Web Rover

got some good information on Td5's if you want to learn a bit before you buy.

cheers for the link adsey some good reading there.

G

Wasn't there a problem with plastic rods holding the heads centred on the block on early TD5's? I believe that sometimes the rods could deform through the heat allowing the head to move....