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Always have done on every car I've ever owned - never had an engine wear out on me yet.

Ed's a good fitter - he's no mechanic though.

Yes but he clearly didn't know that EAS is standard.

0W-20 isn't a problem. If it didn't boil so easily and you never shut the engine down, plain bearings would be perfectly fine with water rather than oil. Once an engine is running the journals big-ends etc. are kept apart from each other by the hydrodynamic wedge formed by the relative motion of...

Yeah, Brewer is so well informed on the P38 episode he tells you to go for the model with air-suspension - what a knob.

Agreed - but new cars in the "old day" used to burn oil - a litre of oil in 1 thousand miles was not uncommon - put 0W20 in the same engine and it will guzzle twice as much. Tolerances, oil control ring design, valve stem seal, cranks seals, breathers - everything has got better. I've only done...

Yes I have used bearing scrapers with the old white metal bearings. Perhaps the expansion coefficents are better matched which would be a better explanation. Your comment about higher capacity pumps makes my point about oil loss through journals with thinner oil. A higher capacity oil pump will...

We don't have TUV-like type-approval laws in the UK so you can run any sized wheels you like on your car - however it is obviously considered to be a modification and the insurance company must be informed.

I know my response was perhaps lazy - but it was still correct - the rate at which oil was flung out the big end journals was far beyond what's actually required for splash lubrication and as I said with thin oil the oil pump wouldn't be able to keep up - old engines were built very loose...

Thick oil was required in the old days simple because of crappy machining tolerances - thin oil would get flicked out of the big end journals causing oil pressure to drop off. It would also help reduce oil consumption. The thicker oil would increase drag worsening fuel consumption.

Morris oils are very good - £80+ VAT for 25 Litres of their classic 20W50 Golden Film SAE 20w-50 Classic Motor Oil Dunno about the zinc content - probably worth emailing them - but I'd agree Rover V8s should be run on high zinc content oil.

? My Rangie was a V8 - as was the previous one - I wouldn't have a diesel anything even if it was given to me.

Then just use it for transport as it was in the old days - passenger cars should use petrol as it's much cleaner. The din of a traffic jam is unbearable these days - bloody diesel after bloody diesel clattering away.

If they should outlaw anything it should be nasty sooty diesel.

Were these OEM pushrods? I'm very surprised - snapped pushrods are usually evidence of another problem unless they are incorrectly manufactured with the wrong metallurgy or slightly bent from new.

Classics are rust buckets so they will only appreciate as more quite literally disappear. P38s I think will eventually be viewed as desirable - they are still in the being scrapped for niggly reasons zone - however it won't take long for people to realise that P38s are the last true Land Rover...

Cheeky! :LOL:

To be fair to the old girl I only had one break down (low oil pressure) and even then I limped home! The oil pump was worn - it was a surprisingly reliable car but I could feel lots of jobs coming up - just getting a bit tired and in need of a refresh and I just haven't got time to muck around!

Oh there's no doubt about that - nothing has the ambiance of a Range Rover - I'd buy another P38 in a heartbeat - but they are just getting too old for me now. I can't risk an unreliable car. As I've said i won't buy a L322 on principle - I'm lucky enough to able to afford a L405 but I've got...

I was having a chin wag with the original owner of the car - and mentioned she'd been relegated to weekend warrior - he wanted to buy her back and I agreed! Sad to see her go - it's been more reliable than I expected and a real hoot to drive over the 50ishK miles I put on the odometer. I love...