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Funalps

Member Since: 15 Feb 2020
Location: Chamonix
Posts: 1

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Cairns Blue

Sudden and Catastrophic Engine Failure

Hi, I am new to the forum and searched through most of the pages but have been unable to find a similar problem. My apologies if I missed something.
I was driving my 2007 Puma 2,4, (with only 120,000km,) all was going perfectly when after about 30kms and coming out of a roundabout there was a sudden loss of power, an impressive knocking noise from the engine and loads of blue tinged smoke pouring out of the exhaust. The engine stopped but I managed to restart it and with lots of knocking and exhaust smoke got into a parking 50m away. The Landy was trucked to a highly respected Land Rover garage, (he has been servicing/ repairing my Landy ever since it was out of guarantee 9 years ago.) It has been there now for two months! The mechanic cannot work out what is wrong with it and is reluctant to start changing parts without a diagnosis. When we started the engine together, it fired up but with the knocking and lots of white smoke this time, and stopped running within a few seconds. On another occasion it would not start, but turning the engine over on the starter motor, there were no unusual noises. The last refuel was about 300km before and in the meantime it had been serviced and MOTed. The computer shows nothing untoward. A few days before the failure I thought I heard a slight knocking but it stopped after a few minutes. The oil showed no sign of water ingress. I had the breather pipe problem fixed a few years ago. Where I buy my diesel was rumoured to have had an algae problem, but I cannot believe this would cause a sudden failure. Any ideas would be most welcome.

15th Feb 2020 8:01pm

ickle

Member Since: 22 Jul 2010
Location: South Vendee
Posts: 1782

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Alpine White

Piston failed - early engines had faults with oil cooling jet under the crown IIRC

Timing chain stretched and jumped a tooth?

Good luck

15th Feb 2020 8:58pm

KelvinB

Member Since: 17 May 2018
Location: Crickhowell
Posts: 24

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Stornoway Grey

Sounds as if it will be cheaper to get a new or recon short engine. Recon is only about £1800 and probably cheaper than spending loads of time in diagnosis and rebuild. Something similar happened to my 2008 2.4 at 105,000 miles.

15th Feb 2020 10:00pm

Naks

Member Since: 27 Jan 2009
Location: Stellenbosch, ZA
Posts: 2638

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Alpine White

ickle wrote:
Piston failed - early engines had faults with oil cooling jet under the crown IIRC

yep, sounds like this.

that sucks, a recon engine, or a BMW conversion? https://www.facebook.com/257036848348064/posts/481209805930766/ --
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16th Feb 2020 8:21am

Oldowner

Member Since: 26 Dec 2018
Location: South west
Posts: 623

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Aintree Green

I would question how good the “highly respected” Land Rover garage is if they can’t work out in ten minutes that a pre 2008 2.4 with those symptoms has more than likely suffered usual piston cooling jet failure, let alone two months.

16th Feb 2020 9:43am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17382

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

It would be highly unusual for a Puma with 120k km on the clock to suffer from the PCJ problem unless oil changes have been overlooked, and the manner of the failure as described is also not really consistent with this particular fault.

Personally I'd be more inclined to suspect a timing chain fault or possibly a catastrophic injector failure.

It is certainly disappointing that a dealer is unable to diagnose what is clearly a very major fault (it should be much easier to diagnose than a minor one) and speaks volumes about how useless dealers are now they no longer employ proper mechanics.

16th Feb 2020 1:19pm

diduan

Member Since: 13 Oct 2016
Location: Central Balkan
Posts: 260

I can't belive LR garage is not able to diagnose your engine. Did they remove the head and looked at it? Defender 110 SW MY2011 2.4tdci decat, no EGR
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16th Feb 2020 1:30pm

ickle

Member Since: 22 Jul 2010
Location: South Vendee
Posts: 1782

He's in France - they were going to but then they went for lunch!

16th Feb 2020 3:35pm

jst

Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Taunton
Posts: 8029

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Stornoway Grey

Timing guides worn as is tensioner and chain slipped/jumped? Cheers

James
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16th Feb 2020 10:13pm

Julie

Member Since: 07 Oct 2017
Location: Nantes
Posts: 484

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 SW Keswick Green

ickle wrote:
He's in France - they were going to but then they went for lunch!

It's already been very difficult to identify the correct break pads for my 110 MY 2012 - far too complicated ...

An entire engine must be way beyond their limits ... clearly ...

I'd have the whole engine changed. That's an easy job for them. Not so intellectual

P.S. A worn time chain rattles. He did not mention that.

16th Feb 2020 11:03pm

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