The pocket rocket

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:56 pm

Yes that spare head looks well fooked!

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:40 pm

Came home today find the last pieces of the puzzle i've been waiting for so now i'll post pictures up

So a run down of parts:
New Standard Turbo
Refurbished oil pump
Piston rings - brand matched to recent new pistons and liners
Renault valve stem seals
Uprated headgasket set "blue seal"
Conrod bearings in standard size
Exhaust mount
New oversized door pins

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:14 pm

lots of new toys

onwards and upwards mate, this thing is going to be mental

IWANT1 · Post by **IWANT1** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:14 pm

This thing will be like new, cant be far from me if in cambs?

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:39 pm

IWANT1 wrote:This thing will be like new, cant be far from me if in cambs?

I'm over near huntingdon fella

Bottom end is all done and the sump back on sealing over night

Gave the piston tops a quick going over with scotchbrite to bring them back up clean

Old big ends

Liners and pistons in

Decided to use my little daddy 3/8 torque wrench on the big end nuts

Old piston ring massacre

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:10 pm

Head is pretty much built up only little bits left to put back on

BUT!

I broke a one way valve on the inlet manifold

Took it out to check it works fine and change the copper washer, put it back in and tried tightening it and it wouldnt tighten it just snapped :x

So i need to go over my cousins to get one off his 6 spare inlet manifolds he's got

warboys · Post by **warboys** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:42 am

I'm over near huntingdon fella

Me too, i'm in Warboys

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:05 pm

time for the big update :mrgreen:

drum roll please ..................

Its alive

8) and it runs great, no more smoke, rough idle or milky oil

Also word of warning to everyone
when your little bro is turning the engine over to get fuel into the carb and the pressure up and you have the coil pack ht lead off
DO NOT HOLD THE LEAD to stop it arcing off metal

fook me the coil pack packs a punch :shock: both my arms went straight up and kinda flapped about :lol:

But i may have a minor leak from the flywheel side half moon sump seal
Or it might be where i split some oil out when the turbo oil feed was off in a bottle to make sure i had oil moving around with the new oil pump. But thats a simple fix which will get done once i've put 50-100ish miles on it and need to change the oil next

Now i'm getting 4 bar oil pressure whilst cranking down to 2.5ish when the fan cuts in 8)

Did get a little video but its nothing special will upload soon

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:59 pm

Its now officially mot'd! :mrgreen:

Only advisorys was
oil leak from sump (think the flywheel side half moon seal moved when the sump went up)
Antiroll bar bushes cracking
Slight play in steering rack internals

Had to slow the idle speed down and the co was 2.10

not to bad considering it was set by ear

now to fix an overboost issue and oil leak

Adam_sx · Post by **Adam_sx** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:12 pm

How he looks at the moment all taxed tested and insured