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i know what it,s like,loads of time but know money,but im hoping that might change tommorow as ive got a work tial to goto,so see what happens,id rather work than sit on my arse all day

well looking at it another way,if and when you get the engine done,at least you can be our resident engine specialist,

fix the one you have you know you want to,it,s an addiction,either that or go cold turkey

at least you will have an idea of what to do i suppose

i,m not sure mate.maybe a case of having a word with them and see what they say better safe than sorry

any thoughts on your next move gav??

no good to you gav it will only break in a week. anyway ordered the new vcu should be here tommorow,just a same i serviced the damn thing on sunday,what a waste of transmission oil

a few guys on the v8 forum are recommending these guys www.chesmanengineering.co.uk

ive heard somewhere that getting your own block th lined is around £600,i,ll have a fish about and try and find where i saw it,meanwhile have a word with these guys www.westwoodtrading.co.uk as i don,t know at what cost the liners are,but i wouldn,t get them from rpi as they are way...

going on what john said it could be a lot of money down the drain,you have come this far surely it must be worth considering getting your original block sorted,arp studs aint cheap,if your planning on getting them for the heads theres 100 notes straight off along with a set of rings and shells,i...

i think mine wasn,t looked after all that well,so far nearly 3k spent on it in 8 months,im hoping when this is sorted that it will give me some breathing space before the next problem,or it could be an empty field petrol and a match and have one hell of a barby

viscous coupling unit,after i suspected it i rang ashcrofts and basicly it,s fubar:mad:

well after getting the oil leak on the back of the engine sorted,i am not surprised that something else has gone wrong,the problem this time a siezed vcu in the transfer box,i heard the tyres scrub a bit in the car park and when i did the the old jack up the front corner gearbox in neutral...

i have the rovacom lite,and to be honest ive hardly ever used it and when i first pluggedit in to read any faults there was none,so it just sits in the cupboard,

right gav as far as i can make out through the jargon you have a pre 1996 14 bolt 4ltr engine one of the 3.9 blocks that was turned into a four litre,what has been done to it since leaving the factory is anyone guess,thats about as much as i can get for you,but looking at it and thinking of the...

right i,ll speak to someone if i can get hold of them,im sure he has a way of identifying the engine block

whats the block no.gav,have you done an id on it

right gave here you go this is the short arp head stud overall length 71mm 24mm is stretch thread for the block 22mm is a unthreaded shank 25mm is the fine thread for the arp nut and washer

if you have one of the short bolts to hand gav measure it from the bottom to the top in mm and i,ll get one of these arp ones and i,ll do the same,but i need at least 20 mins so i can get in the shed

who supplied the head gaskets gav,the first i used on mine came form island 4x4 in the head kit,but i found coolant would leak around the area where the locating studs on the block deck are,the next ones i got from v8 tuner have been great no leaks and felt better quality,and thicker