Niall's 2000 306 XS A.K.A Craig

[Niall]

Haven't worked on an XU for 2 years now. If you didn't live so far away I'd give you a hand! Beats cleaning the dieselbus.

Hope this all gets sorted in the not-too-distant future...

Thanks mate!

Well pistons are out and the rings are well and truly fooked! The compression rings are sill spot on but the oil rings are in a state. All of them have gone brittle and broken up and one of them, the spring has actually been rubbing on the liner!
The big end shells are also pretty buggered. Looks like the engine may have been run very low on oil at some point. Other than that, we had a good look over the bottom end and everything else looks fine. The oil pump strainer is spotlessly clean which I was quite surprised about but whilst the pistons are off, I'm going to give everything a good clean up ready for shiny pistons to go back in!
Watch this space