Rolling with Pebbles

[hiho]

By the seaside, at the sleepy village of Walkerville


Hone and rings?


Maybe bearings too.

[gtimk5]

Love the pics mate!!
Sidevalve motor there, maybe an old Ford or Landrover motor. Either way, I think an overhaul is in order! Been flooded at some stage?
Andrew

[hiho]

Thanks Andrew. The car is still going great. We've been towing a trailer around with it for the last couple of weekends and it pulls it like a champ but I am tempted to replace the head bolts with longer studs and stick a turbo on it....

[gldgti]

I do agree Jarred had more power on the way home

for you jarred, and for you too hiho -

if you have a little air getting into the fuel lines before the injector pump, the internal pressure inside the pump is decreased as the air is bled out. this means that the dynamic timing advance mechanism will not advance the timing correctly (it works on internal pump pressure) and you will encounter retarded timing. retarded timing will cause lack of power and high EGT's, which will cause the symptoms you are describing. the main reason the engine gets hot is because you will inject a lot of fuel (using extra throttle because power is down) but its all too late because the timing is wrong.... lots of wasted heat.

air leak problems like this tend to be hard to track down and very intermittent, and often the easiest way to solve the problem is to replace all the inlet side lines with new rubber hose and new high quality hose clamps.

HTH

[Jarred]

Thanks for that. I'll add that to the holiday list!

[hiho]

Thanks Ayden, you're a champ! I will replace the fuel lines and filter this weekend. I might wack in a cheapo petrol filter pre diesel filter too just in case i encounter some biodiesel.

I also pulled apart the suspect demonic alternator to find a dry solder joint at one of the diodes. Why did i have the alternator apart? Well that another story for another time......

[gldgti]

Why did i have the alternator apart? Well that another story for another time......

you better do a good writeup on your adding a 'W' terminal and then modding a petrol tach to work off the W terminal - then i will bestow upon you the great honour of having a thread stickied

[hiho]

Writeup on its way!

[hiho]

Im considering this little turbo for a 1.5TD. Its off a 1986 2.8L Jackaroo. Its complete with downpipe and oil feed/return lines and surprisingly small.





before i do this i wanna have the other car running and head studs installed (to help keep the head on!)

any comments on this turbos suitability for a 1.5?

[Jarred]

I've heard they consistantly pop headgaskets when turbo'd. This is what I was told when I first bought my diesel at least.