Re: LRO: Straight Six (was New Guy....)

From: Mark Pilkington (mark@skywagons.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 13:27:53 EDT

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    Does anyone know what a good running 80,000 mile 2.6 Land Rover Straight
    Six engine is worth. It is out of the vehicle.
    Thnaks.
    Mark Pilkington

    8 Landrovers

    "Faure, Marin" wrote:

    > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:44:31 +0100
    > From: Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>
    > Subject: Re: LRO: New Guy or All about Joe
    >
    > On Friday 29 June 2001 09:18, you wrote:
    > >>Some engineer told me a long time ago that the most inherantly
    > > vibration free engine design is a straight six... To do with the
    > > period the cylinders reciprocate at.
    >
    > >I've been told that (Land )Rover used to boast that you could stand a
    > coin on it's side on a running 2.6 engine - and it would stay there...
    >
    > Possibly true with a wide-side pound coin......:-)
    > ___________________________
    > C. Marin Faure
    > (original owner)
    > 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
    > 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
    > Seattle



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