Thread: Newbie in the Land of Rovers

Thanks for your thoughts guys. I hope it is as simple as a lead. That would be unreal. I might pass that by my mate.
Re: the LPG. That's great to know. If anyone else has testimonials that would also be great.
Cheers
(Out of pocket) Porchy

Good Luck Mate,
I can understand peoples misgivings about using "Straight" LPG on these Engines as Valve Seat Wear etc can be an issue.

However pretty much every Sequential System is Dual Fuel, mine starts and runs on Petrol for 3-4 minutes every morning whilst the car gets up to operating Temperature. I've also set mine to switch to Petrol when I'm above 4000RPM (Found it was easier in Calibration etc and better off road). As soon as it's back under 4000rpm it switches back to LPG.

Well, to put it mildly, F*%$#@, Sh&*$%#, and bugger!

Lead....no
Rocker....no
Spring....no

My mate did the compression test today and whipped off the rocker cover.
I am heading in tomorrow to pull off the head. Looks like I might have a valve issue. Losing compression on no.3 and pretty sure (also hoping) that it is in the top end.

Porchy

Head's off. It's the head gasket. Some dingbat when rebuilding the engine decided to put 2 19mm bolts in the middle of the head which has caused it to nicely blow out between them due to obviously not recalculating the tensions for the different bolts.

So, 2 helicoils a new gasket and some more time and I'll have it done. Thank god it wasn't a valve, or worse, a ring.

Porchy

Good Result in the end... considering the earlier forecasts...

Hell yeah! I am a shocking pessimist when I have a problem with the car. I like to prepare for the worst so that I can have that great feeling of AHHHHHH when it turns out relatively ok.

Porchy

Could have been the dreaded slipped liner. Much more pain. Not nice, but simple in comparison.

Gary

Blood oath Gaz. If it had been that I would have been tracking down the guy who rebuilt the engine and giving him a special Christmas visit.

Porchy