Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit

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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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"bulls acre"
I've never heard this before. What does it mean?
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And onto the daily, yep I jinxed it. 194500k on the clock and it is apart. fucksticks

Fucking hell, that's fucked the fucking fucker!

K-sealed it and headed from home for Devonshite where the workshop is, initially performed beautifully but then the occasional whiff of hot antifreeze kept wafting through the car. Get there with no drama except that the LPG packed up and grenaded the airflow inlet pipe to the plenum. Bastard!
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Block test still passed but the engine was cold, I think this is a problem that manifests itself when warm. All plugs out and have minor carbon deposits but else no issues.

Hats off to Bosch Super 4 plugs, done over 64k miles and still have life in them
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Compressions on RH Bank excellent for a Rover v8, on LH back I couldn't get the tester to screw in, fucked plug thread, remainder were not great, #3 and #7 were more than 10% off the highest compression. Didn't bother with a wet test because I knew the head gasket had failed.
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started big strip down, everything is a bit grubby to be honest
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as expected LH bank head gasket had failed on 3 of 4 cylinders. Sounds horrific but ....
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It is this bit that confirmed it for me. On the left is the water jacket at the front of the block. Then you can see three light rings for the head gasket fire ring imprinted onto the block face. However where it goes past the water jacket you can clearly see it has breached
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The front 3 cylinders all had these breaches on the inner edge (next to the inlet manifold) again head gasket had failed almost certainly due to the infamous 3rd row of head bolts and subsequent head tipping. I am pretty sure this engine had not been apart before I bought it at 46k miles and the head gaskets were Land Rover Branded so this is the first time apart ever!
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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chadders wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:32 pm "bulls acre"
I've never heard this before. What does it mean?
In the same vein as Arthur Foxhake, something that is a balls ache could be a Bulls Acre. no idea where it came from been in my vocab for as long as .. like ever
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bring the daily driver up to date

Cleaned up the block face and checked for low points, especially where the blow had occurred, seems ok
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Head on the other hand are both distorted, mainly around the ends. but will definitely need a skim
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But a damned good clean up first will make the job more pleasant
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camshaft is showing signs of wear, but is not the catastrophe that many of the OLLI boys would have you believe on a 194k engine that is still running all it's original components (except timing chain and gears)
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Did a check on the brushes on the alternator, which were fine. The contact rings however are almost worn out! Since the fuck when do contact rings wear faster than brushes?
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Removed the cam which meant first removing the radiator and then shifting the Aircon rad out of the way also - without disturbing the pipe work
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Now I have a smoll shopping list and a visit to thee machine shop with those heads. Hope to have it back up and running next week
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Almost 195k on the original headgaskets sounds pretty respectable to me, especially as it doesn't look a major failure.
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Latest vid is up on yootube more for shits and giggles than self onanism 😮😮😮

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A good thread. Just because I have nothing to say doesn't mean I'm not interested. Keep updating please!
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Mysterious pressurising of the cooling system when on LPG can be down to a failed vaporiser, it's very very rare but possible, a quick test is does it start unpressured when running on petrol.
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DodgeRover wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:12 pm Mysterious pressurising of the cooling system when on LPG can be down to a failed vaporiser, it's very very rare but possible, a quick test is does it start unpressured when running on petrol.
yep that was tested, they test to over pressurise in just under 1 second from cold :cry:

good suggestion tho
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Youtoob vid of the above with plenty of demonetised profanity is right here



Not done a lot since, but I did strip down the heads so they could be checked and skimmed. all valve guides showed barely any wear. Heads needed a single pass on the skim which was <5thou" 8-) Going back together next week

In Southpaw world....

Front end went from this, took quite a while to clean gloop and grease out of the way
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To this, rust.co.uk chassis 1-2-1 paint sprayed on through a 2mm gun and about 90psi - honestly it is like fucking porridge. But the cust wanted exactly this. Tough, consistent and tidy.
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Autosparks were unable to help with a loom rebuild. Found a company on ebay who had a complete* loom from a 1993 200TDI Range Rover. Perfick mefinks. alas no engine nor gearbox loom. Oh and the door looms were an extra £50. I am in the wrong business I tell you. It all ended up at £365 for the loom and that included an ebay discount!
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inner wing curtain and top rail were rustier than drivers side, so I cut them out and bought repair panels from YRM for less than £40. half an hour to fit. cushty
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and then paint. Must admit I rather like the hammerite effect. It is tougher though and should protect this stuff for years to come
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The loom went into the bulkhead and front inner wings, pretty much everything lines up just fine. No sign of anything being on fire and the seller assured me that everything worked on the donor car.
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Dropped the headlining one side at the time to install the body loom that was supplied from donor vehicle. piece of cake really
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Had to cut off connectors and crimp bullets on to get the front side/indicators working. which they do
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For the rear light units I cut the original early connector from the old loom and spliced it to the new loom.
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Aiming to finish that on Monday when I return. Then it is back onto HGF repairs until that car is running again
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