Started stripping the engine down yesterday, well took the rocker cover off, thats all i needed, one of the hydraulic tappets had disintegrated, and most of it had disappeared down the oil ways, the valve stem had gone through the tappet, and dropped its collets, and stuck there, so can only assume that its bent inside the valve guide, the cam was good apart from a few scratches on the one lobe where the tappet had gone, the result is that the head definately needs replacing as the bottom half of the tappet is welded into the head around the valve stem, and as Jon said there isnt much point, or its not good practice to put a recon head on a 195,000 mile bottom end, might as well stick a lower mileage engine in altogether and have more peace of mind, obviously change the cam belt and clutch while its all out. ~Then should be good for a few thousand miles at least ! Its a major setback though and is going to take some time saving for an engine etc, will have to start a bit of ebaying again, see if I can make a million like the guy on the news today !
Im hoping to get the roof finished this week, if I can stomach working on it when its so poorly ! Also need to finish off the towbar, got the rest of the bits now to do it. Just hope I dont have too much to do for the MOT thats due in April, think it may have to be SORN though for a while unless cashflow improves drastically, shame because MOT due date is my Birthday :), will lose that unless it takes a whole year to get done ! Which I hope isnt the case. Dont want it to turn into a driveway shed ! :)
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