2.5 na d oil consumption?

I'd have thought that the less oil it uses the better it is..

Ideally an engine should use none, or atleast very little oil, should it not?

It depends on the design. Older Rover (petrol) engines are designed to use some oil - they burn some oil in order to lubricate parts of the engine. Modern engines are designed to burn much less oil. Obviously, minimising oil consumption by attending to leaks etc can only help.

Should not need to add oil between services - but anything less than, say, one litre between services is reasonable. These are not a modern design that has a serious problem if there is any appreciable oil consumption, but neither is it typically an oil burner, unlike its turbocharged development - or like the Gipsy Major engine in the Auster plane I used to own, that had a permissible range of oil consumption from one quart to one gallon per hour. JD

like any engine in good condition - negligable.....

but if the rear/front crank oil seals have gone you might get a few drips per day. Sump gasket leaks too. But if you`re using lots of oil and it isn`t dripping onto the floor, then i would suspect your engine needs some tlc. take the oil filler cap off with it idling. Does it blow loads of blue smoke out of it? If so your engine is pressurising via the worn piston rings or valves. This will lead to oil consumption way above what it should be.

nick c

On or around Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:24:09 +0000, Tom Woods enlightened us thusly:

well, yes, but it's a Land Rover. Never trust a Land Rover that doen't use oil...

seriously, if it's not leaking much and doing under about 500 mpg on oil, you should look into it... :-)

Cheers all It's got a few oil leaks im gonna reseal all the leaks, but I only got it sunday and i've only done about 20 miles due to it needing a clutch. Seems to start ok from cold, got 109k miles on it so wondering if i'll have to carry oil with me :O) Is the steering realy that heavy? :O) Is it realy that slow? :O)

-- Jon

Mine still hasnt lost a noticeable amount. I'ts done about 500 miles since the rebuild now (due for oil changing this coming weekend i think). Should i be worried? :) My gearbox+t-box are trying to make up for it though! (~4litres of ep-90), so does that make it acceptable?

To look on the bright side, your chassis wont go rusty quite so quickly..

you get used to it. It feels light after driving a 101..

Again.. It doesnt feel so slow when you get used to it :)

You should also have asked: Is it really that noisy? :)

It's ok its galvanized

first evening out just after I got insured I went on a local green lane my arms were nearly falling off :O(

went up a steep hill, the guy behind must have thought I was taking the p***.

I expected that:O)

My arms felt like that last night after i'd just spent 5 minutes trying to reverse it into the drive!

Plan your route to avoid up-hills where possible? :) I dont feel guilty about slowing people down anymore. Its not like you have any choice! :) There are enough people who go painfully slow without having any obvious reason to, so I think its resonable to drive slowly in your landrover because you have to!

very hilly round here

very true

Just been out for a run (40 miles) lots of hills up and down and some motorway. Got it up to 74 mph on the motorway (m62 j22 to 23) then came back via the steep hill and the clutch started slipping again :O( Gonna have to find time to do it, may try the remove transfer box then gbox method as I have no engine crane. Have to do enough miles to find out oil and fuel mpg :O)

-- Jon

Somebody might be able to lend you a lift, or you could hire one. I'd offer you mine, but i'm not very local to you! With an engine lift and a mate or 2 its only 2 or 3 hours worth of work to do a clutch.

I dont think you actually need an engine lift to do the clutch anyway. You dont actually need to take the g-box out, just shift if up and back a few inches so you can get at it. Leaving the seatbox in place makes it a lot quicker too. I did mine with the seatbox in place.

I and 3 other mates managed to lift a gearbox off the floor and into my landy - they arn't actually that heavy (you can single handedly almost lift one up), so i dont see that chucking a couple of ropes round it and moving it a short way should be too hard!

I wish mine would do 74mph! (2A with the same engine as yours). Got it up to 65 on the GPS the other day, and that sounded like close to the limits of 4th Overdrive (in my experience much more than that and you get covered in oil!)

I don't think it will do much more than 74 mph on the speedo, but it was stable and no shaking it was down hill don't think I had the wind behind me. I've done a s3 gbox by myself they are fairly easy to lift but the 5speed 90 gbox is way heavier.

I was offered to do it at work but it would be a rush job and I want to replace seals and gaskets and take my time over it as the gearbox seems to have more than its fair share of leaks.

-- Jon

hahaha, i got 70mph indicated out of my series 2a (same engine as you, but mines from a sherpa) without an overdrive. I think i had hit the rev limiter, it was VERY noisey even with all the carpeting i`ve got in there and i got just a little scared. Is yours a swb? cos mines a longy, so it could be the fact mine is slightly more aerodynamic that yours that i got it to go a bit quicker. (aerodynamic coefficient is a function of the height versus length, the longer you are for a given height the better the dynamics supposedly)

nick c

On or around Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:06:05 +0000, Tom Woods enlightened us thusly:

I should think so... don't worry about the engine, in fact, they're all not supposed to lose or use oil. I'd forgotten it was a rebuild. You'd expect it to use a little initially, but after that, it should stay pretty much up to level, barring leaks. my comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek :-)

Mines a sherpa engine too. In a SWB. I got up to 68 on the way to work thismorning, but it was scary going past the lorries, so i stopped there! I didnt know it had a rev limiter? Or is that when you hit the stop on the injector pump? I was nowhere near that, and i dont think it was revving that highly (the overdrive makes all the difference!). I think it stopped getting noiseier at about 60, though its bloody noisy all the time really! (I dont have any insulation or carpet/mats in either). Unless by the time you get to 60 youre just mentally blocking it out?(or partially deaf!) :)

Didnt know that. You have the extra weight against you in a LWB though.