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Hhhmmmm, this doesn’t seem right……




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"Hhhmmmm, this doesn’t seem right……"

Doesn't look good either

Looks worse with all the soot and crud removed
Out she comes



Just like Meccano



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I’m not surprised, although one must ask themselves where the missing piece is ?

Do you have enough bore material to go oversize ?

Greg

Is that a chunk OT of the piston top edge?

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Errol62 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:36 pm Is that a chunk OT of the piston top edge?

Merely a flesh wound…

Cheers,
Harv

Found the problem, the top ring has decided to go on holidays

The hole in the piston may or may not explain why she was puking out oil at a prodigious rate for the last hour of her life …..



Some of it decided to hang around in the oil ring




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Bore is not too horrible so just chuck a set of rings on this piston and send it


…… or maybe it’s time for a new one

This block is cactus anyway, has cracks between the head bolt holes and the water jacket - is +.040” so won’t clean up at 60 so in the bin it goes.
Will reuse head, oil pump and some bolt ons but that’s about it


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Oh dearie me! You've managed to get by on 5 1/2 cylinders for a good many miles. Soldier on!

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Big ends are .030” so crank may be a bin job as well …. Will have a look inside the oil pump tomorrow and see if it can go around again



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Hmmmm …. That engine is not looking good

EK Mart OR Blacky's house of dead FB/EKs

Mick wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:14 pm EK Mart OR Blacky's house of dead FB/EKs

You are right 6 of them at the moment and not one of them goes ..........

I have a nice rotating shortie if you need it. Harv got the lifters out of it. Get the thing out of my sight…


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

It is even FB era correct


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie