Range Rover engines - 4.0 or 4.6

One thing to bear in mind is that the 4.0 engine is a smoother running design than the 4.6, the larger engine has more noticeable vibration due to the longer stroke. BTW, they didn't screw up the way it was made, they screwed up the fuelling that then resulted in localised overheating beyond the elastic modulus of the block. Have you had the heads off and confirmed the porosity (liner creep, actually) or is this speculation based upon reputation? I've replaced a lot of head gaskets on the later engines, more on the larger capacity, admittedly, but I personally have found that around 80% of all the engines I've looked at, it's just been gasdets, no liner creep. Badger.

I thought the 4.6's were the porous blocks, not the 4.0l?

Yeah, I thought it was the 4.6's, but I suppose the manufacturing processes are similar... Sorry but I think your bit about George Best was in very poor taste, especially after recent events. Wolverine.

On or around Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:05:18 +0100, "Wolverine" enlightened us thusly:

what recent events? The ones about him being back in hospital?

I mat well be wrong, but AIUI he had extensive and doubtless expensive treatment to cure the effects of alcohol abuse and then carried on drinking, possibly not so heavily.