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DSK Defender90

Member Since: 05 Jan 2021
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 1

1996 Defender 90 300 Tdi CSW Cairns Blue

Heart Broken - New engine required apparently for my 90

Defender 90 (300 TDi) decided to ground to a halt with mechanical failure on Xmas Eve and my local garage just informed me that the "engine has locked and it needs to be replaced".

I need to have a F2F meeting with the mechanic, but would welcome other's experiences and options / suggestions please, especially on engine replacements (if it's come to this !).

Ultimately, my aim is to have my 90 roadworthy again.

5th Jan 2021 6:47pm

Likeomg

Member Since: 29 Jun 2012
Location: Lake District / Newcastle
Posts: 2641

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey

bmw m57 engine.....

5th Jan 2021 7:30pm

familymad

Member Since: 13 Dec 2011
Location: Bucks
Posts: 3481

2016 Defender 130 Puma 2.2 HCPU Santorini Black

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254814301812 1951 80" S1 2.0
1995 110 300TDI
1995 90 300TDI

5th Jan 2021 7:39pm

the gamekeeper

Member Since: 01 Jan 2010
Location: Surrey
Posts: 96

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Tonga Green

Likeomg wrote:
bmw m57 engine.....

What will be entailed in marrying this up with the transfer box in the Landy

5th Jan 2021 8:00pm

DSC-off

Member Since: 16 Oct 2014
Location: North East
Posts: 1419

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Aintree Green

To answer the OP, 300 TDi engines are generally very reliable, probably easiest and cheapest to stick with the same.
Don't know what's wrong with yours or what it will cost to fix.

If you need a 'good' used engine to replace it, buying a complete running 300TDi Discovery might take some of the risk away. Buy wisely, good mechanical condition and history, but poor body, and it should be cheap. If it's got MOT, run it for a while to make sure the engine's worth swapping. Sell anything left over for scrap or break it if the axles and gearbox are good.
Want to increase the gearing of the 90 to make it quieter at speed? Fit the Discovery transfer box too.

Hope you can get sorted.

5th Jan 2021 8:36pm

mini Anaconda

Member Since: 23 Aug 2016
Location: Thames Valley
Posts: 784

Re: Heart Broken - New engine required apparently for my 90

DSK Defender90 wrote:
Defender 90 (300 TDi) decided to ground to a halt with mechanical failure on Xmas Eve and my local garage just informed me that the "engine has locked and it needs to be replaced".

I need to have a F2F meeting with the mechanic, but would welcome other's experiences and options / suggestions please, especially on engine replacements (if it's come to this !).

Ultimately, my aim is to have my 90 roadworthy again.

Did the cambelt snap?
Depending on the relationship with your local garage, it might be worth a second opinion from an independent Land Rover specialist.

A refurbished Tdi is expensive... second hand ones can be bought in a Discovery as below but buy wisely. Yours may be repairable.

Interested to hear the verdict from your mechanic. BORG - Bucks & Oxon 4x4 Response Group

5th Jan 2021 9:18pm

bodstruck

Member Since: 09 May 2020
Location: Wiltshire
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5th Jan 2021 9:49pm

L110CDL

Member Since: 31 Oct 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 10765

Mine engine sort of stopped, all info in Millie110 thread, from page 39

As my original engine was in really good condition apart for the head, i'm having it fully rebuilt

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

5th Jan 2021 10:07pm

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