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he is very keen to get involved

ahh I see he has Daddy's tool of choice

took me ages to find the damn thing when he had finished with it....

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ahh I see he has Daddy's tool of choice

The little Clees run around with cable-tie!

ahh I see he has Daddy's tool of choice

The little Clees run around with cable-tie!

That's funny .. or was that running around with a mastic gun?

Right, since last update i have been busy (slowly but surely)

Decided to change the head gaskets, so took the heads off

Bank 123









Bank 456









As you can see there was standing water in cylinder 2 and 6.

Needed to inspect the liners so took everything apart









Piston rings, liners seal and shells need to be replaced, liners 1,3,4,5 are good but need honing, liners 2 & 6 are fecked and need replacing.

In the meantime, both heads were skimmed and head height matched.


Couple of weekends ago, Martin Faulks helped me seal the new set of valves on the heads.

While i was busy with the inlet valves, same seat angle but later valve design for better flow (new on left)



Martin was busy grinding the exhaust seats to match the new exhaust valves (new on left with reduced seat angle for better flow)





Head 456 with valves seating and sealing nicely



now need to clean all parts and start re-assembling

I see Martin has popped across the road and borrowed some ' tools'

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LOL ... you have to be in the "know" to understand the reference... I can't remember if Cedric sampled the local special delights

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Cedric... that exhaust valve has got dirt on the seat, hope you cleaned it before you put it back in?!

What a dirty bottom, whatever next

Clean set of pistons, con rods etc



back together



new set of ring to go in in the next few days...

Good work Ced

Thanks Lee

Quick update:

3 off my liners were unusable and luckily Martin had 3 lying about Thanks Martin! So finally have a decent set, now cleaned and honed





Had the crankshaft polished (still in need of a good clean)



Received the new shells



still waiting for the liner seals to come in and then, rebuild time

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Cedric,

Here's a better picture of the modified exhaust valves, if you are going to give my secrets away, at least make them look half decent! LOL



Request for Cedric, has anybody got a set of new OE 2.5ltr turbo piston rings? I've checked, and I have nothing... This is to help Cedric as he has 2nd and oil control rings he can use, just his supplier sent him the wrong top ring in his set and still waiting the replacement... French suppliers...

Cheers,
Martin