slipped liner

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

assuming the slipping liner was diagnosed by noise alone...


given what youve just put on....


sure its not just a sticky tappet or rocker?

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I looked at invoices and rebuild was done 06 and diagnosis of slipped liner done 07 by Davis Performance Landy's. They also did the rebuild. Wish I took the time to fully read all work done + compared dates before I bought.

Actually going by invoices rebuild was done at 240k Slipped liner reported at 247k it now has 255k. Looks like chemiweld has been put in everytime coolant changed. This would mean previous owner would have had to continually add coolant all the time or that chemiweld treatment worked to a certain degree. doesn't make sense. I can't even hear a real knock or anything. mmmmm. Does run a bit rough under load until engine is at full op temp. although give it enough revs and it clears up.

The link Simon put up was very interesting about liners and the head bolts.

Well, I decided to check the water today, when I opened overflow I heard massive amounts of gurgling/bubbling for about 10 sec. I don't think I should have done that as when I tried to start it, it went clunk and nothing else. Checked battery- ok.

Well I realised by now what had happened, and my worst fears came true when I took off the first spark plug to the left (when facing motor front on) water on spark plug. Just for fun I disconnected spark to dizzy and turned her over. To my discust it spewed out coolent all over the place. All I can see now is $ signs. :(((((((((((((((

Don't waste your money getting it fixed

There should be plenty of second hand bottom ends available here

top hat the liners/bores

mmmm, well first I'll take the heads off, and see if it's really the liner. The motor is quite when running, maybe it's only the gasket and was diagnosed incorrectly? Just have to wait for another weekend with good weather. But if it is the liner, the next step would be to find a good 3.9 block. Top hat lining the old block sounds expensive.

What about fitting an earlier 3.5 efi motor? I heard these motors don't have liner problems and are quite good on fuel. Not very powerful though

cheers

Steve