3.9 rv8 rebuild

Mr Noisy · Apr 17, 2013

Megajolt cures many of your woes for sure.

Even increases Lucas injection performance by improving timing.

Dr_evil · Apr 17, 2013

Think it might be the better option

Cheaper than squirt too I think

Mr Noisy · Apr 17, 2013

About £400?

Dr_evil · Apr 17, 2013

No idea

I is just a fabrication monkey you're the electrical wizard

Mr Noisy · Apr 17, 2013

Lol, ok cheers

fett · Apr 17, 2013

Dr_evil said:
No idea I is just a fabrication monkey you're the electrical wizard

fabricating what? scrap landies and engines in a big pile?

Mr Noisy · Apr 17, 2013

Fabricating stories about running engines more like!

fett · Apr 17, 2013

yeah lol, and how he will "drop the new engine in tomorrow"

Pretty sure its been a year now lol

Dr_evil · Apr 17, 2013

It's been in the bay for at least 2 months now

fett · Apr 17, 2013

ebay?

robbh · Apr 18, 2013

Evening gotta bit more done tonight.

Distributor, water pump and timing cover now removed.

Also have removed all the tappets, well nearly all of them, one has to come out once the camshaft is out

So on with the pictures!

Wasn't too much hassle to get all that lot off. In the first picture with my finger pointing at the timing chain is it at rest. The next one is me pushing against it and there is the same amount of play each side. Definitely seen better days!

And last picture is of one of the tappets, most have a concave (is that the right word? Sounds right but probably isn't!) face that's a random pulled from the lot. I think there was one or two that looked worse.

Tomorrow evening's plans! Get the camshaft and that remaining tappet out then turn the engine over and start on the bottom end. Unless ive missed anything?

robbh · Apr 18, 2013

Almost forgot this pic!

All of the tappets out bar that one i was on about.

discomark10 · Apr 18, 2013

The wear on the tappets is normal so is the chain slack. I must say that under your timing cover is quite a bit more black than mine! Also... whats that wire coming out of the vacuum mech on the dizy?

jamesmartin · Apr 18, 2013

discomark10 said:
The wear on the tappets is normal so is the chain slack. I must say that under your timing cover is quite a bit more black than mine! Also... whats that wire coming out of the vacuum mech on the dizy?

it isnt its just resting there

Mr Noisy · Apr 18, 2013

That dizzy doesn't look like a 35DLM8 because it doesn't have the amp mounted to it, so that cable I assume is from the Hall sensor...?

fett · Apr 19, 2013

it also looks like its got the earlier drive gear on the bottom too, no dongle lol

Mr Noisy · Apr 20, 2013

Indeed fett!

But of course being a serp it doesn't have a dongle at all right?

Early ones had fixed drive, late type had wobbly drive, then did serp have no drive at all??

fett · Apr 20, 2013

lol, thats true-but I didnt know it was a serp lol

in that case the amps on the car body not the dizzy and the wires go to it via that plug

its to stop the heating problem

discomark10 · Apr 20, 2013

fett said:
lol, thats true-but I didnt know it was a serp lol

in that case the amps on the car body not the dizzy and the wires go to it via that plug

its to stop the heating problem

wow thats a goos idea, think i might move mine then!

Mr Noisy · Apr 20, 2013

fett said:
lol, thats true-but I didnt know it was a serp lol

in that case the amps on the car body not the dizzy and the wires go to it via that plug

its to stop the heating problem

Ahhhhh

Us V-belted chaps can be somewhat blinkered!

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