I'm going to get a second opinion on the liner job done on my block. The liners fitted are only 133mm tall, making them substantially shorter than the original liners and more than 8mm shorter than the 141.73mm liner length specified by two Australian suppliers. This means the bottom of the piston drops 15mm below the base of the new liner. Certainly not the best thing for service life on the rebuild. I'd queried it when I picked up the block but was told "they're the right ones".
Getting there very slowly with the rebuild. Last thing I am waiting on is new injectors coming from the US.
So far, costs for this have gone well above $4K. Aggravation and frustration WAY more than I'd accounted for.
I'd not anticipated having such a hard time with machinists. Finally found some guys who did the right thing by me, so the business part of the build could commence. I'm very much looking forward to turning the key on this in the next 10 days or so, but since the car has been off the road since January I wouldn't be surprised if there's another hitch that puts it back a week.
Where I sit now, I wish I'd never undertaken the job, primarily because of the high cost and countless hours I've put in. I should have kept the money in the bank, broken up the Disco, sold off the good bits and bought a diesel. That, or just buy a banger and swap engines. I hope to be smiling a bit more in a week or two.
I've taken a heap of pictures but will post them once it's all finished.
You will have a lot more fun with your 3.9 than a 110 oil burner! Build the 3.9 and gas it. They love gas. Have built mine with gas in mind but will run it in with unleaded and then set the gas up.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacMan
Couple of picks of my new 3.9, not far away from going back into my Stage One. Looking forward to running it in.
Regards Warrick.
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Should get to turn the key today. I'd hoped to get it all finished yesterday but ran out of time and energy. Starting to look like it used to though.
It goes!
I have an injector problem - either an injector its connector - so it runs very rough on ULP with the new Bosch injectors. I'll debug it tomorrow. On LPG, it seems to want something in the order of 15° advance. Cam run in went fairly smoothly. I had an airlock in the cooling system which meant the converter froze up, but it was pretty simple to bleed it out once after tipping a hot kettle of boiling water on the converter.
Final mop up tomorrow and I'll post some pics. This is a HUGE relief after all the trouble I've been through with "experts" and "professionals".
That's great to hear. It really sounds like you had my kind of luck and wound up dealing with some true idiots.
Haha... yes. Well I certainly know whom I would not recommend to do a liner job. I'll reserve judgement on the balancing mob until I've run it more. I'm heading out this morning to look for leaks under the car and check out the fuel injectors. Assuming it's all OK I'll swap to normal glycol coolant and rebleed the cooling system before going for a run a 100km run.
Injection gremlins fixed! :D
In my haste to get things done I'd mixed up the #1 injector harness with a sensor plug. Swapped and she runs superbly on the Bosch injectors. Certainly smoother idle and better response than with the stuffed old Lucas units. The 15° or so degrees that provide happiest LPG running cause it to ping terribly on ULP, but I'll find the happy setting for ULP and just retain two witness marks for both fuels. Now to see what the ULP economy is like.
Just been for a decent run. Starting to smile again now. All running well. Power on ULP is good and the running very smooth. But with the ignition advanced to suit, LPG is very pleasing. I look forward to it loosening up over the next few thousand KM. :D:D:D
That very good news! I'm just starting to assemble the new engine I've got, though sadly it's not top-hatted.