Originally Posted by
Patrick M
Sorry it has taken so long to reply and thanks for the feedback, I finally completed the job about three months back and since then have been on a 3,000 Klm trip to Alice Springs, the Fink River Gorge and numerous other places as well while on a two week break from work.
The old girl went extremely well with a best leg fuel consumption of 7.7 Klms. per liter and thats loaded to the gunnels as well.
I ended up pulling the old 3.5 motor out, the old seal when removed it just crumbled away, so brittle, anyway no more leaks, it turned out that was the only way do it which was good because it gave me the opportunity to address some other issues as well, one of which was replacing all the Konie shockies with Bilstein units.
Anyway thanks blokes:-
Patrick M
That's 13L per 100kms isnt' it? Impossibly good for a 3.5 v8 I would have thought ( nearly 22mpg ). It must be one really happy motor
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