Originally Posted by
mjonathan24
There is one main reason why they are so cheap.... The head gaskets blow on them approximately every 30 thousand miles,
That advice would be correct IF we were talking about the 1.8 4 pot version but the 75 & ZT 2.5 KV6 does not suffer with this, the early KV6 as fitted to the late Rover 800 series did have a few issues but these were resolved for the newer car.
Timing belts can take a while if you haven't done them before, I dropped the engine and subframe on our old car and had the job done in about 5 hrs.
