outcome on my engine

[fq-craigus]

its taken a while as its not ideal being 100 miles away from the car and micro managing, but i have finally heard back about my engine.

the crank has been miked up and no problems with it at all, its been lightly polished and will be coming back 2mos hopefully.

i just need to source the main bearings and big end bearings now and once they arrive get the engine rebuilt and back in the car

 

[foxy lady x]

That's not too bad then still along way to go but at the end of the build you can sit back and think I did that

So how did it happen in the first place? What made it just give up the ghost?

 

[B6lee]

So did you find what was at fault Craig ??

 

[RsvRob]

LACK of oil

Camskill's for your bearing

thrust
main
bigend

 

[fq-craigus]

oil level was low and due to the sump design hard cornering starves one side of the engine of oil, i have got el on the case for some bearings, i just need to find the time to get up to my dads to get it all back together.

 

[evo arm's m7960]

some like its all comming together nicely :O) good luck

 

[evogeof]

oil level was low and due to the sump design hard cornering starves one side of the engine of oil, i have got el on the case for some bearings, i just need to find the time to get up to my dads to get it all back together.

You spoke to el ??? I thought he was busy looting Pmsl :whistling:

 

[RsvRob]

oil level was low and due to the sump design hard cornering starves one side of the engine of oil, i have got el on the case for some bearings, i just need to find the time to get up to my dads to get it all back together.

You hard cornering ahahahaha

 

[fq-craigus]

not my diagnosis its corten millers, first non track evo they have had in with this usually track slags they get

 

[RsvRob]

Yeah considering you said it started when you pulled away from a set of lights and had not been cornering hard before hand

 

[fq-craigus]

Yeah considering you said it started when you pulled away from a set of lights and had not been cornering hard before hand

oil starvation could have happened around the lanes through caddington as your aware very fast corners, pulled up at traffic lights on a5 and went when i pulled away

 

[gooner8]

glad to hear its all coming together mate

 

[evogeof]

is it fixed???

 

[fq-craigus]

not yet but i have got to the bottom of the fact that the engine isnt screwed need some new bearings and build it back up and back in the car

 

[B6lee]

So is it a case of keep digging then mate as you haven't found nothing wrong or have I missed something ??

 

[gooner8]

yeah this is a weird one

 

[fq-craigus]

the bearings were done, so we found the prob but i was told my crank was ucked but when i took it out everyone in the workshop was convinced the crank was ok so i had it miked and polished, its not warped in any way no ridges so a quick polish and its fine. my dad didnt want me to replace the engine if it only needed a set of bearings which is common sense i suppose, just more work, so now its all got the all clear i need
new bearings
cambelt
oil cooler
and plenty of time to put it all back together

 

[evoaps]

Hope u sort her out mate

 

[Steve220]

In terms of crank - what's miking?

 

[fq-craigus]

pob got the spelling wrong but its the measuring up with a micrometer,