2.25 petrol engine

[Luc]

Afternoon,
I have recently started work on on my late 2A 2.25 petrol engine. When I bought it the engine was running, however due to my inactivity water in one of the cylinders caused the number 4 piston to seize. I have stripped the engine down and removed the offending piston. Now that I have it down to this stage I have decided to do a whole lot more than I initially planned.
I would like to get the cylinders bored, crank shaft ground, block and head faces machined and valves and seats ground.
Can anyone recommend a Landy engine reconditioner? Im located in Tamworth NSW but Im happy to ship.
Is there any others jobs I should get done while its stripped down?
Thanks Luc

[Cadas]

Hi

Can't help with a machine shop in NSW, but I did rebuild my 2.25 petrol this time last year and had just about everything machined I could before doing all the assembly myself.

In addition to the list you have above, I had the following;

- New valve guides, these have to be machined to length and pressed in but were cheap ($4 each to buy)
- I had the valve seats replaced, cost was nominal and you never have to worry again. The shop was concerned that the old seats were becoming too recessed and would damage the new valves over time.
- You'll need new cam bearings (the dip tank eats them) and these have to be fitted and reemed by the machine shop.
- If you're replacing pistons, new conrod bushes (again fitted and reemed by shop). I had the shop balance the pistons and allocate them to a cylinder.
- I replaced the rocker shaft as a poor service history meant the oil ways were blocked and the shaft was a knobbly stick... new shaft and new rocker bushes (fitted and reemed)
- New thrust washers for the crank.

when they dip the block, all the plugs are removed, so a full set of them is needed and there are quite a few.

I used Bearmach for all the parts, bearings were all King brand and pistons were forged and I got really +ve feedback from the machine shop on parts quality and there is a significant cost difference to Turners, etc.. wait for a 15% discount offer and it's pretty economical.

[1950landy]

If you have water in cylinder I would be getting the cylinder head crack tested , the early 2.25 were bad for cracking heads.

[Luc]

Thanks for the great tips, I really appreciate the help