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[nicklouse]

Not mine but I will be playing with my tools on it.

So here it is 2 years ago.

Edited by nicklouse, 06 March 2017 - 01:46 PM.

[nicklouse]

So after letting the owner disconnect most things today was engine out day.

[nicklouse]

Then I get to play with some tools.



Then onto splitting the engine into its parts.

[nicklouse]

First comment. Why don't people put some anti sieze paste or some such on the center front stud?

You know the one that us a closer fit than all the rest. Had to remove all the studs and flatten the engine number scrivits so as to turn the head to unscrew the bolt after mashing the threads with two nuts.

This was the start of the good news.

As I was undoing the block to box bolts each one cam out with a blob of rtv on the end.

You know the studs over the diff there should be two. One just failed as soon as it was touched.

Oh the green paint it covered everything.


Anyway lots of words. There will be none in the next few posts as I want to show you the glory with no distractions.

Oh it leaked.

[nicklouse]

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[nicklouse]

In someway this should have been a clue.

[Archived2]

Hylomar red? Seems a bit ott

[Spider]

Well, if some is good, more HAS to be better,,,,,,,

[Guess-Works.com]

wait 'til you get to the oil strainer in the sump....

[nicklouse]

wait 'til you get to the oil strainer in the sump....

I hear you do a Saturday surgery.

[MrBounce]

If my Midas is anything to go by, there may be the occasional issue to come across and sort 

[nicklouse]

Well bits are starting to arrive.




The short motor should be here tomorrow.

[Guess-Works.com]

Actually the gearbox was not that bad... case took a week in the tank to get the sh*te off it... lol

[nicklouse]

Actually the gearbox was not that bad... case took a week in the tank to get the sh*te off it... lol

only a week!