300tdi wont turn over?

Galen said:

So...
If the bore hasn't been buggered it should be a case of un bolt leg no. 4 from the crank and replace the piston. Bolt it back in?

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Yes but some honing may be required.

From what i;ve been told, this engine was a decent runner before it decided to have a tantrum and offer its piston to the gods. 136k miles on it i think.

Should I replace the picton with a genuine item or are the white box pistons ok?

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That I can't tell you. My engine was similar mileage to yours when it was removed. I sold the old engine in bits for more than I paid for the new one rather than rebuilding it. I could put a finger on my piston and wobble it from side to side.

I would say go for genuine to be on the safe side. I spend my life on the road and not in a workshop so luckily I don't get to do engine rebuilds often. Sombody else on here may be able to tell you how they've got on with a non genuine part.

I spent quite some time trying to get the piston out of the block today, and the result is special

Galen said:

I spent quite some time trying to get the piston out of the block today, and the result is special

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me thinks he mighta got a little warm. :doh:

Yeah. The way the piston rings have become one with the piston, and the layer of aluminium left in the bore kinda give that away doesn't it

Galen said:

Yeah. The way the piston rings have become one with the piston, and the layer of aluminium left in the bore kinda give that away doesn't it

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that engine would have been knocking it's tits off for quite a while before giving up the ghost. I did about 3000 miles on mine and it still wasn't that bad. That includes a non stop drive from Endinburgh to Bath. I rekon the guy that sold it to you woulda known how bad it was too.

It was cheap enough. The chap I got it from made no bones about it having died a death and being cooked.

Can the aluminium deposits in the bore be removed or is the block toast?

I have a cunning plan to get the aluminium off the cylinder wall, but does the panel think that the block is serviceable after that?

me thinks chizel and hammer will sort it out, but thats prob why everything i touch ends up scrap

sambodisco said:

me thinks chizel and hammer will sort it out

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300tdi wont turn over !

apparently pikey had the opposite problem