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Started stripping down the right hand head today - though literally got five minutes in when a flash of lightning and almost simultaneous crack of thunder aborted play. Pretty much the same story as the left hand side, bit dirtier though and with the same evidence of it being sitting for a fair whil...

Or you could pop a 4.6 engine in.. im sure there's a lot of broken range rovers near you :scared: I'd rather not have to deal with the nonsense of trying to insure a vehicle with mods like that again thanks! Oooh tell me more! When I had the Xantia Activa it had a manual boost controller fitted. Fi...

Got the Rover's valves measured today. Confirming we do have 40mm intake and 34mm exhaust valves. https://i.ibb.co/f4w9dyH/IMG-20230921-133405.jpg https://i.ibb.co/C0S3Qbj/IMG-20230921-133436.jpg Which also matches the part numbers on them. ERC9088 on the intakes, and ERC9089 on the exhausts. Decisi...

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Thu Sep 21, 2023 12:27 pm

Or you could pop a 4.6 engine in.. im sure there's a lot of broken range rovers near you

I'd rather not have to deal with the nonsense of trying to insure a vehicle with mods like that again thanks!

I'd like to know why some of the valves are different to the others.. looks like a bitza motor.. It absolutely is. Pretty sure the bottom end is newer than the heads. Given the marks on the head in no 3, I tend to think that historically there may have been a valve/piston interface at some point wh...

Rest of the valves are now out. 1. Intake. https://i.ibb.co/vvQyWMF/IMG-20230920-154349-2.jpg https://i.ibb.co/sVdJTGH/IMG-20230920-154356-2.jpg 1 Exhaust. https://i.ibb.co/S6MFCjh/IMG-20230920-154731-2.jpg https://i.ibb.co/VmPnZLs/IMG-20230920-154738-2.jpg 3 Intake. https://i.ibb.co/xhmkp3d/IMG-202...

Will you be skimming the heads? I'll be making a judgement call on that once I've had a chance to clean everything up, get a proper look at the head and get a straight edge on it. If there's no sign of any problems I'll probably leave it alone. -- -- -- Leak test actually didn't reveal much. Which ...

Does it have a roof mounted aerial, our 206 developed a leak every time you put the brakes on. It does. This will be investigated in due course. -- -- -- Off with its head! https://i.ibb.co/N61vNRT/IMG-20230918-145713.jpg https://i.ibb.co/X8MjF71/IMG-20230918-150356.jpg Nothing immediately obvious ...

Have you done a compression test? Yep, next to nothing. Less than 30psi anyway, which is about the lowest my piece of rubbish compression tester reads. Wet or dry didn't make any noticeable difference. It's definitely kicking it back out the intake rather than anywhere else as you can clearly hear ...

If this is anything like the Renault dCi engine the AA diagnosed our Clio with a high pressure fuel pump issue. My Sealey diag actually said it was the Glow Plug Relay .. changed that, same issue. That actually turned out to be a dead glow plug (actually two!) but I could only diagnose it with the ...