Recent content by Wicket man
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She says I'm mad sinking a small fortune into my landy but for the cost of her nails I can buy enough paint to repaint a full landy and have loads left over , infact I've offered to paint them with quality coach enamel but for some reason she declined
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Got my first landy 4 years ago and now on my second as I made the mistake of selling 1st one to get a classic car but soon realised that it's a landy I really want so sold car and got another series 3 .
The wife refuses to get in it let alone travel in it but that changed to day her car is in...
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Here's a photo of cylinders before rebuild
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When I took the engine apart a few months back cylinder 3 had similar marks on the piston , seems a little strange.
After the last rebuild i could not stop what I thought was pinking no matter how I adjusted timing and carb but I couldn't hear any pinking on a test run last night .
I wounder...
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After a chat with a friend this morning he seems to think the marks on the top of piston could be inclusions ( think that's what he said ) , basically it's caused by impurities in the metal of the piston just below the surface and as they get hot it causes these marks to a appear
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Noticed water in the oil on Friday so off with the head on Saturday a clean up of the surfaces and noticed dents on the top of one of the pistons being as they are only a few hundred miles old there must have been something got in there recently.
While at it I replaced the valve stem oil seals...
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Last week saw some ford fiesta seats for 20 quid so bought them and cut runners off then welded them to series runners bolted in and job done after a quick clean they look OK, the pattern on them is even blue to match body colour
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Morning All
I'm looking for a pcv valve to complete the pipe work on my series 3 petrol and asking if a universal one can be used or does it have to be a specific one.
Seen some for a disco for a lot less money than series ones.
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A few jobs to do but really impressed how it drove, steering precise and brakes pull up in a straight line.
It has no crank case breather valve so can I use any or is it model specific? I have a flame trap from a rover p6 is this the same thing
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Walking home from work this evening for some reason I was questioning myself if I had the ht leads on right even though I'd checked them so headtorch on and I realised I was putting them on clockwise, school boy error.
Swopped them around turned the key and burst into life so let it warm up a...
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If I adjust it to 6 before tdc it will not run it pops and back fires then stalls
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Yes its a long way from tdc when it lights up trid to put a video on but it's not posting it
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Took the belt of and noise still there not sure if valves need adjustment again , if I had got one spline on the dizzy drive out or a tooth out of line on the cam could it still run on idle ?
Video shows how far the timing marks are out .
On a plus side the interior is looking better now it's...
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