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Going through the garage having a clearout ..Stumbled across a Brand new in box injecter pump for the 2.5TD VM engine..Anyone put a price on it? Its a new one not a recon..TIA
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New injector pump for a Victor Meldrew engine!! Bung me a £50 and I'll take it off yer hands as a favour, don't tell anyone though.
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Chuck it in the river - with any luck the current from all the recent rain will carry it to the harbour where it will join the VM engines employed as boat anchors - their true destiny...
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Well I speak as I find .I ran a classic with a VM lump in it for 5 years and it had a hard life but it pulled better than any 200TDI or 300TDI Ive owned since and theres been a few ...32mpg body fell off the chassis but that lump always started used no oil or water .I know most slag them maybe I was just lucky ..
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Quite a few VM's in boats, stick it on Ebay and invite bids
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Just to update this old thread..My lad put it on ebay at £325 had an offer of £300 in half an hour ..American buyer buys all VM stuff ..paid cash at his friends house local to me ..Result ..Chuck it in the sea LOL
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That's two of us then. Exact same story. When she came on the boost she would pull like a train- much better than my 200 and then 300 tdi.
He she is for old times sake...
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they were a good engine , just a little prone for cracking heads and more complicated an engine than some mechanics could deal with
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+1, early heads were prone to cracking, the later modified heads were OK as far as I know, run for ever in boats.
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still cant understand why they had 4 heads though
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still cant understand why they had 4 heads though
wasnt that uncommon with some other marine or agricultural engines ,same head could fit any number of cylinder numbers and each liner didnt have to protrude exactly the same as all the others
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true pretty common on forklifts aswell but how would it work out if you needed a head skim or would all 4 need doing ?
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if i remember correctly heads were coated and couldnt be , but you dont get the same warping with single heads
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less area, and easier to replace or that was the idea behind it. I.e lose one head replace not a full one piece head. If you think about it good idea on paper but not so good in real life.
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It was a good idea in real life but expensive to produce and cannot easily be applied to OHC engines. Also the block has to be stronger as the seperate heads do not provide the same stiffness as a single head.
There are still pushrod agricultural diesels with individual heads.
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It was more to do with the fact that companies like Merecedes Benz,Deutz,Hatz and Lister etc, would build a whole range of engines with a single bore size.That bore size would then apply to to engines from 1 to 10 or more cylinders.Its often the just the crank,cam,manifolds and block etc that are specific to each number of cylinders.Makes the parts dept a much simpler place....
But all of the above built much better engines than VM,they had some poor design ideas and used poor quality materials too.(Esp the case hardened cheese for the cyl heads)
But all of the above built much better engines than VM,they had some poor design ideas and used poor quality materials too.(Esp the case hardened cheese for the cyl heads)
