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I bought a 1994 Fourtrak TDX independent fitted (badly) with an old normally aspirated D engine and probably the old gearbox too.The body etc is OK. Amazingly, it drives but without power steering. I am costing fitting a TDI engine/box First Q is compatibility of a replacement TDI engine etc- which years/ models are compatible? Second Q is just what is involved. I have engine hoist etc and someone said you unbolt the whole front, disconnect engine/box as a unit and pull the lot up and out forwards. Then reverse the process with the TDI cw box, intercooler etc. Is it that easy? Third Q is what is the old engine and box worth? Someone said Landrover owners like these D engines.
Many Thanks Dick Fowler
1stly the engine and box
1stly the engine and box should just bolt straight in, as it is basicly the same engine and box anyway (asuming the ones there now are just earlier Daihatsu parts?).
2ndly personaly I woulb take the engine out of the top of the engine bay (removing rad and such to give room to split engine from box) and then drop the gearbox and gearbox cross member down to the floor. You can then use your engine hoist to lift the front of the car up high enough to slid the very heavy box out from under the car. There is a lifting eye on the top of the gearbox which is visible once you take the gear / transfur lever gater of the transmition tunnel. It does not line up when everything is bolted into place but does alow you a controled drop to the floor with the gearbox, via the engin hoist through the car door. Some people do swear by removing both as one unit. Personaly I would not go that route, just becouse of weight issues, and controling that amount of weight without crushing something, or someone...
3rd. The old one is not worth very much. You can pick up boxes off e-bay for 50 quid, and the 2.8 non terbo is worth less than it's woight in horse manure, as it is a fairly usless engine. Just my opinion of course. Some Landi owners do like them, but any worth there sult would bye a terbo model.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
The Daihatsu engine is not
The Daihatsu engine is not such a popular conversion for Land Rovers any more since it is fairly cheap and easy to get hold of 200tdi diesel engine (for example you can buy a MOT failure Discovery with one in for a few hundred pounds and then break it to recoup some of your costs) and put this in now, and this has the advantage of going easily onto the standard landrover gearboxes without the use of an adapter plate.
Fair enough. Very nice
Fair enough. Very nice engine too. Could go for the whole coilspring conversion as well.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
have JUST done this myself.
have JUST done this myself. the trick is to remove the cross-member in front of the radiator (use penetrating fluid if you don't want to shear the little bolts) and then you can take out the engine, gearbox and transfer box all in one. you need a decent hoist that can lift quite high. i suppose you could always take off the front wheels and lower the front end with a trolley jack if it doesn't.
if you have a hoist this way is by far the easiest in my opinion. both those 'boxes weigh a lot, i certainly wouldn't want to be hauling them around under the vehicle and i'm fairly able. plus lining the clutch + g'box up separately would be a nightmare. even lining them up on the floor took an hour or so, with a trolley jack and plenty of wooden blocks.
cheers.