L110CDL wrote:

So to cut a long story to a shorter one

About a couple of weeks ago i started seeing more white smoke coming from the exhaust than normal, so i kept on checking the header tank and she was wanting more water each time, until the middle of last week when i started her up and she just had loads of white smoke, so i arranged for her to see my indie Saturday morning ( 11th ) so he could do a compression test, when starting her up from work to come home, very little white smoke.
Friday morning came and went out to start her to go off to work and she turned over, not even once and that was it, i had never had this before so i rang my indie and he told me what to do and hey presto she started, but sounding really ruff
Straight to my indie, about 10-15 minutes away, not knowing whether she would make it, made it ok, phew i thought, so he told me that when i had tried to start her she had hydro-locked, not good, so he was able to make a start on finding the problem in between his other jobs, he did the compression test and number 2 cylinder was at 250 as the other 3 were at 325, he next took the head off, not just one visible crack but 3 head was scrap now, the reason for the ruff sound was that she had bent number 2 con rod big end and that made it impossible to take out without stripping all the bottom end.
So after sometime at work and a lot of head scratching a plan was made, my indie has a disco 300Tdi engine with a verified 165,000 miles on, so just run in then that will be going into Millie for now to keep her going and as the rest of the original engine is in really good condition, i will be getting it re-built. No time restriction on the re-build of the engine and then she will go back in

I'm not at all disappointed about this as i knew it would happen sometime, she has done really well, the original engine, block, head, turbo and the injection pump had done nearly 382,000 miles, so a good innings

close to 400k on the original engine etc, i would not complain either. At least you are back up and running, i think the head gasket may have gone, going from what you say. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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custom90steve wrote:

Will there be some engine mods in the process?

Not sure yet Steve, it will be rebuilt as if it came out the factory but with a Turner head on it and the only item i would put on it if i can get hold of one would be a VNT turbo  1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.