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Exciting news! After 5 long months, I have a working hippo! :) Apparently, I was clumsy but lucky. Clumsy because I put the exhaust camshaft sprocket to the wrong position of the camshaft (I put the camshaft pin to the "IN" hole instead of the "EX" one). So, although the sprockets looked...

They skimmed the block with the liners in. I didn't remove the pistons at all. Today I poured about 5ml of oil into every cylinder (from the spark plug hole). I'll retest tomorrow for compression to see if anything changed.

Gentlemen, thank you all for your valuable info. Fl@pper, I didn't touch pistons and rings, as they worked fine before. The only thing I did to the block, was skimming it. I'll try air-pressuring the cylinders to check them. Andy Warren, it was my stupid mistake not lapping my valves and not...

Hi, just rebuilt my 1999, 1.8 petrol Freelander (head gasket issue). Engine won't start after the rebuild. Here's a brief list to what I did: - Skimmed the cylinder block (sent it to a machine shop). - Installed NEW cylinder head (brand is TopLine). - Installed new: valves (plus springs and...

Greetings to all members here, name's George Recently bought a '99 Freelander 1.