Informations about an old Thornycroft Engine

[GoUpwind]

Hi!
Iam searching for Informations (service Manual, spare parts) regarding an old Thornycroft Engine No. D2036 90, SN: 4125.
Currently Iam looking for a cyliderhead-gasket or a complete gasket kit. Ive tried to contact Thornycroft, but they dit not answer.
Maby some of you you have any idea, where i can find parts for this old model?

Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
Simon

 

[tillergirl]

Try: Thornycroft 90 Marine Engine Spares

 

[Boater Sam]

The Thornycroft 90 engine is a marinized BMC 1.5D 4 cylinder diesel engine. Also marinized by Newage and Tempest marine.

BMC spares are available from Calcutt Marine, and ASAP supplies, and Boulters Chandlery in the UK, and just about any engine shop.
There are even head gasket sets on ebay.

I have the Tempest Manual pdf., private message me with your email address if you want it.

 

[Davy_S]

I have the Tempest Manual pdf., private message me with your email address if you want it.

He may not be able to accept your kind offer, i don't think new members can send a PM until they have made a few posts.

 

[Boater Sam]

I have the Tempest Manual pdf., private message me with your email address if you want it.

He may not be able to accept your kind offer, i don't think new members can send a PM until they have made a few posts.

Good point, it is downloadable from here https://www.scribd.com/doc/47711393/Bmc-Leyland-1500L-Diesel-Workshop-Manual#

Or from here https://www.chertseymeadsmarine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bmc1500L.pdf

 

[Jim@sea]

I made a mistake when I bought a boat with a Thornycroft Diesel Engine, In the 1970's & 1980's when these BMC Diesel Engines were being made I had a garage and would service a fleet of Austin J4 Vans which had the 1800cc (?) BMC Diesel Engine and the Austin J2 had the 2500 cc BMC Diesel Engine, many of the J4 vans had done over 300,000 miles and were still very reliable although on a cold morning you either had to tow the van to start it of Use EasyStart.

So when in 2010 I came across a boat with the 2.500 cc BMC Thornycroft Diesel Engine I bought it assuming that like the MGB with the BMC engine that engine parts were readily available.

Big Mistake. II had a mooring near my house in Brittany and wanted to take the boat there, the idea was as that I had previously reconditioned many BMC engines, I could get a spare engine block and do a rebuilt engine, fit it then take it to France.

There were parts I could not get, in particular I wanted a spare water pump, yes you could (then 2010) get your old one reconditioned but you could not buy another one.
There were other parts which were unobtainable. I sold the bboat.

I noticed . that someone who ran a Forum for the boat make that I had bought had binned his Thornycroft engine and fitted a marinised IZUZU engine perhaps I should have done that.
(I also came across a couple of boatyards who had one of these Thornycroft engines for sale and for £200 would fit them, BUT they said they were selling the engine for a customer which meant that as it was not owned by them, there was no guarantee. (Its a bit like buying a gearbox from a scrap yard, you get a garage to fit it £100, the gearbox is knackered, they say bring it back and we will give you a refund, but not the labour which you pay fro the garage to fit it and take it out again)