2 1/4 petrol reputation?

[zed]

SO, I've been wondering as the vehicle approaches roadworthyness.

What is the landrover engine known for.

I've had a few vehicles that had very certain reputations. My I6 w124 mercedes could not stop running if you tried to kill it. Same with my 1.6 vw air cooled. My raider engine was a "replace head gasket every 60k and head every 120 type engine. 1st gen escorts all blew up.


SO what about the LR 2.25 , are these things prone to explosion.. head cracks, spun bearings, random self valve disassembly. I hear some like to heat up a bit. THis concerns me till I get a working heat gauge.

Or are they bullet proof rocks that are over built and ready for anything, within reason.

At first examination, they seem to be built fairly sturdily. I don't hear about them falling apart so much. I am sure they wear out etc. But I haven't read a whole lot on them, I guess that's good. Mine doesn't have any signs of having a lower end rebuild, but it doesn't smoke, has good oil pressure, turns right over.

Transmissions are easy to find complains about falling apart. But then again, i've been looking for that.

[Series 3 guy]

Dude...690k on the same engine. Never been apart.Never. Just the rocker cover to adjust. The Engines are bullet proof! I have a 5 bearing 2.25 but the 3 bearing is supurb too. Never heard anything reliability wise wrong. Realy thirsty for the Petrol but hey...it a Landy.

[jimfoo]

Burnt #4 exhaust valve and leaking oil. The valve may be due to the head gasket design. Original older gaskets had all water holes the same size, but newer ones had smaller holes up front to help water flow to the back of the head.Other than that, they are great. Older ones won't have hardened valve seats, so you can get valve recession. Torque starts way down low, so they lug like nobody's business. I have probably had mine above red line as well.

[zed]

Cool. good to hear. I've got a weak starter that makes it sound like crap starting, but it only has to get past 1.. maybe 2 compression strokes to start. Possibly weak ground cause sometimes it doesn't seem weak. Whatever, I have the crank handle and I don't have a spare starter

I also apparently have some sort of power problem. The vehicle doesn't want to go over 50 by much. Have a feeling its timing. But till I get a master cylinder into it, I'm not taking it to 50 or better. I usually adjust timing by test drives and checking the exhaust manifold (header) temp. I backed over my timing light, found that swapping ignition components to more modern ones..gas types etc.. the 30+ year old numbers don't work great anymore.
Currently when I just go to idle, the exhaust parts ping and click. Too hot.. bad combustion .. need to time it up..

its supposed to have hardened seats. BUt that's kind of hard to investigate.

The brits board seem to have more failures. But they also have a lot more engine variety and a lot more rovers, used for a lot of purposes. Oh yea.. and they run diesels. Which, in my experience, are always springing up some problem to keep them from running right.