Thread: Opinion needed

Give it a light hone, new rings and drive it!

Its all up to your wallet and how honest you are being about how far you want to go....
If you are likely to do less that 10000 miles in the next 5 years I would re ring it,
It will be the condition of the crank and bearings that will cause you the most problems.

Well this afternoon I loaded the engine into one of my No5 trailers




headed off to a mates place (mechanic old school L/R), with the help of some pneumatic tools, it was down to it's bare bones in no time










and all is good, I do not need to have the engine re-bored as I first thought, the pistons are fine, all the bottom end bearings are perfect. So on the phone and place an order for what I need from the UK (Blanchards), hopefully all parts will be here end of next week.
We had to take the leader of the pack with us


as she is terrified of storms, and the BOM predicted something this afternoon, anyway that's been part of my day, cheers Dennis

Continuing with this engine, whilst waiting for the parts to arrive from the UK, I have grit blasted and repainted a few of the engine ancillary parts just to brighten them up a little



I found my new copper head gasket and a few others that I will need, maybe sometime through the week, I will get time to dis-assemble the head, anyway cheers Dennis
ps when this goes together, I will have a 83 Mod Land Rover 5 main bearing diesel engine spare

Like your smalls on the line!!! LOL

No Muddy, most of what you can see belongs to the Poodle Patrol, they had been washed and so had the face washers, towels & bed covers from their respective beds, cheers mate Dennis

5 past 1??

While waiting for my engine well the big bulky thing LOL, I have been grit blasting some smaller parts, etch prime inside n out and paint

it's colour is 'Ford Grey' by VHT, it suits me and it is high temp paint, now just to get the rest of it back LOL, cheers Dennis