The Old XUD DervBus Thread!

[dr_jekyll]

Holy thread revival!

Had to reset my password to log in to make this post!

No, Have never windowed a block or had any damage with a rod related issue since fitting the forged rods... Infact, its the exact same rods in my current 16v hdi, that were in this very XUD at the end... Still going strong!

In the end it all came down to heat related issues quite honestly, not so much coolant heat, but just damaging the engine from heat, in the head / precup. It would just keep torching precups and / or causing them to become loose in the head, which would then rattle on the headgasket / wear, and unload the gasket, causing it to fail... After torching a few heads / having it apart over and over, It was just time to move on..... Im sure you could play with bigger cups, and other mods to help, but by this point, I already knew in my head I wanted to go DI, and eventually CR, and don't regret it at all, the DI engine is just in another league quite honestly.

However with that said, the XUD will always have a place in my heart as a great engine, and for pure simplicity / cheap fun (not so much now given their actually pretty hard to come by now, which is almost unbelievable really!).I learnt most of what I know now from many many years of messing with these engines, so long live the XUD

Good luck with your build.

Cheers appreciate the reply.

Thats encouraging that you never killed a block once going forged. Find it hard to get actual feedback from people who have ran them in the past.

As you say xud are becoming increasingly harder to find now. Actually lucked out on two engines proper cheap and obv have the third running in my car atm in standard lucas form [emoji28]
Hoping more too just build and transplant a forged lump straight in this time round rather than having a repeat of my hdi and doing small piece at a time, just makes sense [emoji2369]

Glad to see the John Deere's still alive and hopefully i might pump into it at some shows [emoji869]

Cheers

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