It's aboot the same old truck sound wasn't loud before and I was still able to sell the head,valves and guides being pretty good.
But a steep hill coming up to Midmar from my woods required second gear before, even my Subaru XV turbodiesel...
I'm Shure a bigger intercooler would push some more power, but the one I got is suppose to have more flow and cooling fins so it certainly does no harm. The old one was not worth cleaning out because the fins would never be goodno amount of work...
I cleaned up the air pipe turbo to intercooler, which is galvanised and painted it as the oil sump pan, also fitted a set of Blue Silicone Intercooler Hose Kit which looks a bit posh.
The intercooler fins was a bit of a mess, previous crud from...
I decided it would be a good idea to remove the sump and scrape any built up gunge oot!
It has become rather rusty, and the contents would tell a story too, maybe one I didn't want to hear, but to get it really clean inside and restored outside...
I needed a no hole gasket which is the thickest and the new head came with a 3 hole.
At last, it was begging it was beginning to feel like I was caught in a never ending time loop! And I really miss driving Peggy.
I f'd up torquing all the...
Lol, the dogs are aboot,
The valve seat got some junk from all the work between the hardened steel seat and alloy head.but this all got cleaned off before reassembly with the oven cleaner and jet washing.
The valves should all hold a pretty gas...
Mounting the valves in my drill and working with the dremel and air die grinder, I swirl polished the backs and with the exhaust valves smoothed off the sharp leading edge which gas leaving the cylinder would have to move around causing...
All the internal parts of the ports are rough and casting joins don't quite match up so there's an bit of a jagged edge running the length of each port.
The valve guide supporting casting is shaped a little, but on newer vehicles these areas are...
Luckily I had some steel angle leftover from chassis repairs. It was perfect to recreate the original strengthener with some trimming and drilling. Unfortunately the original was too far gone for reuse, otherwise it would have made sense to try...
I carefully drilled off the old section, then chiselled it off using a slitting chisel. After a tidy up I drilled the new metal ready for plug welds. After a few tweaks, I welded the rear and front. It looks easy, but I can guarantee it was not...
After carefully measuring the new repair panel, I cut the old remnants of the lower panel off. Incidentally, I never realised that there was a reinforcement on the old panel but not on the new one….
Okay, made a start on the front panel today. I had a look at others for sale and mine didn’t seem too bad considering. I also had a repair panel, so it was definitely viable.
After drilling the bonnet landing strip rivets and unbolting everything...
I'm interested in the profile of your sharkfin, many decades back in a former life (and before computerisation) this apprentice toolmaker gas flowed the head of a BMC 1800 B engine for competitive use. It was all by eye and guesswork but worked...
Enjoyable read. Was new head from turners? I’d really like a woodland. Have been thinking about it a couple years and have a young son who would benefit from it massively as would his mates! I’m fortunate to have a fair few shooting perms though...
On the exhaust manifold - in the global south anyway - some have coated the inside of the manifold with a "powder coating"
the stated objective of these peeps is that you want the temp delta between before the turbo to after the turbo to be as...
I was quite pleased to see the original honing marks still in the cylinder walls.
They are a little more worn off at the back of cylinder three, and this seems to fit with others opinions that no 3 cylinder gets more boost than the others...
After some work, I ended up with a little airbox mount kit to build. It felt like being a kid and getting an airfix kit to paint and build.
A couple of the mount rubbers were separating from the bolts so really did need replacing. But a most...
The new head arrived and I set it to the side until needed. Not wanting to damage the machined mating surface.
This was a mistake as it turned out, because the couriers had been somewhat unkind to it. They had dropped the new head not once but...