Hi justin, sounds like you have a headgasket problem are you going through any water? If not you may have a leaking fuel injector or faullty fuel pressure regulator. you either have fuel or water leaking into a cylinder causing it to miss fire on first start up.
After the engine has stood for a while (over night is good) remove plugs and look for excessive oil or water deposits/condensation on plugs. Have someone turn the engine over on the stater with plugs out and look for oil or water being sprayed from one of the cylinders. After that a compression test wouldn't hurt which will check valves as well as bore (rings) and gasket. If the head gasket has only a small hole a comp. test may not show that up. If a head to water leak is susspected fill the rad or over flow tank to the brim, run the engine and blip the throttle and see if gas/air bubbles blow out of the top of the uncapped rad. If the rad gases each time you blip the revs, or continuosly gases holding mderate revs then I suggest the head gasket needs renewing. When you'vefinished reading this, if you can help out further with my Toshiba TV Regza 37 I would be grateful.
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SOURCE: firing order range rover 40ltr v8 p38
Passenger side front to rear 2,4,6,8, driver side 1,3,5,7. Distributer rotates clockwise. Number 1 is usually marked on the cap.
Leads for distributor cap should be connected as illustrated.
RH - Right Hand side of engine, when viewed from rear.
LH - Left Hand side of engine, when viewed from rear.
SOURCE: Hi i have Land Rover
Attached is link to Rave Manuals (Rover Bible) BTW yours is listed as Discovery (not 3 if it's 1996) These have exploded wiring diagrams & pics - http://www.landroverresource.com/
SOURCE: 98 land rover turns over but wont start
Get a used spark plug and hook it to a sparkplug wire and have someone crank it over and ground the plug and see if it sparks if it don't you have a problem with the computer or electronic ignition. Or it could be that it jumped timing.
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