Eddy's n/a Nile

[eddy_gti6]

So an update on whats been happening yesterday. Coming home from work the car cut out at a junction and wouldnt start so had the ditch the car and go get a battery as the battery had died for some reason! Car started back up on my spare battery. Went home and picked up my old block just in case it was needed and headed down to Jims 2 hours later than I wanted to.



Started around 11am, engine was out by 12 and made a start stripping everything off the engine, inlet, AUX setup, exhaust mani, box, fly & clutch.
Then came time to pull the head off. Took the head off to find oil in one of the cylinders and slight movement on one of the pistons too.






Stripped the bottom end to see what the actual problem was to find 2 big ends had score marks and one of the pistons was broke. There was my problem to the cylinder down on compression. Also found the bit of cam that had been broken off before I bought the engine sitting in the sump!




Good job I picked up my spare bottom end. Jim cleaned the surface of of the block and pistons and the surface of the head ready to go back together. New gasket and head bolts went on along with a new water pump then fitted the new exhaust cam. Cams are setup on standard timing just to get the car back up and running. Will set cam timing up later on when I come to fit inlet ect...






So end of the day yesterday the engine is back in wired up ect... just shafts, exhaust and front end to go back on really. May give the VLR a trail fit if I can be bothered today