How did they make it so reliable?
Isn't it a BMW M57?
>>29139483>Isn't it a BMW M57?Nope, it's an LR designed 2.5 5-Cylinder Diesel, used in the Defender and Discovery 2
>>29139484Yeah I'm probably mixing it up with something else, I have this vague memory of some landy using a BMW diesel
>>29139485Early L322 td6 models used the BMW M57
>>29139487P38 Range Rovers also got the BMW M51 Diesel with Manual Gearbox
>>29139485And South Africa got Defenders with BMW inline 6 gas engines for a while
>>29139480>plastic head dowels that warp and cause head gasket failure >reliable
>>29139480did they, though? I thought the 4 cyl TDI was the GOAT, and the TD5 just had a reputation for making good power and being tuneable?
>>29139972Wasn't that only the early engines? I though they replaced them with metal ones after 2000 or so?
>>29139979They were good by land rover standards but just ok by 4x4 diesel engine standards. Gutless af power wise
>>29139985Late 02 but because bong fuckery sometimes thry’d put the plastic ones in later engines as well, presumably because that’s what was laying around int the factory. I had an 04 with plastic dowels somehow
>>29139972>plastic head dowels
>>29140000checked>>29140005adding to this, just looking this up, it seems like there's even a technical service bulletin warning that if steel dowels are fitted to earlier engines, the head may crack. jesus christ
