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Thread: engine replacement
Posted 20 February 2005 at 12:10:20 UK time
Mark Brown, Middlesbrough, mwtbrown@hotmail.com

I am having a new engine put in a 1998 1.8 Petrol Freelander. I am told by Land Rover that the 1998 engine block and cylinder head were composed of different alloy composites and this caused both to expand at different rates with heat generated during running of the vehicle causing the head gasket to fail. They also informed me that they upgraded the vehicle from 1999 onwards by using the same alloy composite in both the engine block and cylinder head but that I cannot have the new engine because they have to put an engine of the same year in the vehicle. Is this true?

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