200 tdi block

What!? Can't it be relined with a wet/dry liner? FFS, is this a working engine or a poncy flounceabout engine!

I heard a vague rumour that an old 2.25 petrol engine block is the same as a more modern 200tdi/300tdi/TD5 block. Is it true? I know someone who went into a local Land Rover dealership and asked for a head gasket for his 2.25 petrol engined S2A and they gave him a head gasket which they also fit to the 300tdi (or was it the TD5) so gasket-wise they are so similar as to be the same.

If none of the above is true[1] then I'd try visiting your local engine specialists. If you're near Lancaster (Lancashire, UK) I know of a place which is good for that sort of thing. They did a very good job with a friend's 80" S1 engine - runs like a good'n!

"PDannyD" wrote in message news:ddj25p$goq$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...

I know the crank is the same as my naD but other than that I dont know

Block is different, 2 oil return passages cast on the outside of the cam chest area at the top for starters. Hence the head gasket must be different as well. TD5 has 5 cylinders, so no interchangeable blocks or gaskets there, then! I think your red wine must be pretty potent..... Hang on, I'm seeing double now.... oh, no I'm not, it's an Iceberg engine! ;-) Badger.

What do you mean, "potent"? It's only 13%. You trying to say summat or what?

COOoooor! This Blossom Hill red is better than Lemsip. I haven't coughed once since the first glass. Did I forget to mention that I have oneheluva head cold?

Hang on! My glass is over *there* so HTF did some wine manage to splash across onto my keyboard which is over *here*? It's just not physically possible!

Anyway, perhaps they meant the 200/300tdi gaskets can be used with a 2.25 petrol engine but not the other way round. I shall investigate when sober and un-ill.

A 200 TDi can be rebored +0.040" (1mm over size) ! Grooves 0.5 mm deep are enormous. Get a proper second opinion Jon.

Steve

wunder if 300 will fit

See if you can get it rebored on a no-win no-fee basis ! I think these scratches look worse than they are quite often.

The guys who redid mine in Bury, Lancs., only charge me 85 quid.

Steve

Either way, turner engineering

But that puts it on the limit! your 40"' is diameter while the 0.5mm groove depth is radius.

On or around Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:58:45 +0100, "GbH" enlightened us thusly:

yebbut, he didn't say he had 0.5mm grooves. Steve was, I think, implying that to get 0.5mm grooves would be very unlikely, and thus 'most any grooves would be fixable by a rebore.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Austin Shackles blithered:

Agreed.

Can't be same as a TD5, the TD5 has 5 cylinders!!

Nige

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Worth a second opinion at that price. Are you anywhere near Turner Engineering? They really know their stuff.

-- Pete