Dr_Jekyll & Mr_Hyde Estate Project

[dr_jekyll]

Noticed a small scale disaster the other day and think i caught it fairly early thanks to the advise of you guys on the forum [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]



Basically from what i gather the plates in the oil heat exchange decided to start weeping. Bit of a bastard as only serviced it 10 mins before noticing [emoji23] anyway tooknthe day off work and swapped the exchange over. Bit of a tight job getting the clips off the pipes but was plenty doable and appears to have solved it. So far done 150miles and no more oil in the water.

As it only it was only a small job decided to use the rest of the day to make a start on the new engine.

Tbh never realised how much loom and fuel piping there is on these so spent a fair while taking reference pictures and labeping the loom to hopefully make my job easier later.
As parts came off was shocked to what i found. Pas fluild from the pump was clean and had no smell to it. Seriously clean anti freeze in the block, genuine oil filters, new aux setup that had only recently been done looking at the condition of parts. Even the intake wasnt as coked up as i expected to see. Pretty much looks like this engine was every bit the gem carl chambers made it out to be so very happy!

Ran into another financial hiccup tho. Allowed my tyres to get close to the legal limit so the funds i had saved towards getting the head done last week are now gone again. Made the decision to leave the head on until im ready to send it off to try protect the block.. Dunno if this actually matters?

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