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[Maxwell]

Once its lowered more it will look fantastic on them MOs!!

Nice meeting you Dave!!

Your friend not fancy coming and buying my escort

[jonyb4]

nice job finding them mirrors!

the new window nuts are a nice tough, silver wouldnt be my colour preference though, id have to paint them

how much of a rebuild you planning mate?

[Excursion]

Carpet looks good. Did you jetwash it?

[Dave5300]

yeah i powerwashed it, nice and easy and came up a treat

thanks maxwell, nice to meet you too, he actually mentioned to me this morning how he would love a s2 rs turbo, in white tho id go for red myself

cheers jony, just good clean up is what im planning, paint and clean anything that needs it, funds are tight

[jonyb4]

not even a gasket set?

ah if its sound whas the point, can rip it back out when your wages are in, i understand money being tight, you just bought an RS haha

[Dave5300]

no ill be doing a full headgasket kit aswell jony, have the kit up in the bedroom cant stand a leaky engine!

[jonyb4]

wont like my pinto then, just got it running and theres oil leaking from the headgasket onto the fresh painted block

[fiestarsturboblack]

thats nice mate, look gd in black as iv got a mint one too , well part from [ERRR] i did to her lol

[Dave5300]

ok chaps got a bit done today, took the engine and box out, split them and took the head off, i suspected something was up in cylinder 3 because looking in the exhaust port it was very black and the other 3 cylinders were the right colour as expected, so stripped the head and no3 piston was indeed melted on one side, so took it out, the bore itself is ok, just a bit of aluminium deposit near the top but that can be sorted, so if anybody has a standard piston and rings ill take emm!!

oh the joys

[jonyb4]

tractor! you nutter

thats some quick progress mate, out and stripped to a piston in a day! not bad at all


bloddy hell thats some odd detonation going on there, any thoughts how it happened?

least it should be a straight forward fix

[jayrs]

shame about the piston mate, but at least the blocks ok (or hopefully)

liking the tractor, but you got a way to go yet before you beat the champion (tweek)

[heeman10]

Agricultural machinery FTW!





It's the only way to roll!

[jayrs]

damn i forgot about your one james, my bad

im gunna have to get me a digger for engine changes now

[jonyb4]

[Dave5300]

ive been cleaning and degeasing all the parts since takeing the engine out, i finished the gearbox last night so just a few pics also i really need a piston now as i wanna crack on with the rebuild so if anybody has one please let me know

[jayrs]

lookign good mate.
while your waiting for a piston, you could spend the time ripping that ABS off.... its marmite, some love it, some hate it, but its not that good and easy to get rid off now while everythings out

[Dave5300]

was planning that alright mate, but im gonna leave it untill the winter, then i might rip it out

[jayrs]

fair do's mate, enjoy the summer then tinker when weather is s**t and you dont wanna take her out in it, i can relate that

[Dave5300]

my thoughts exactly

[jonyb4]

mine was disabled, but i wish i had removed the setup while i was changing the engines over, as now it just added weight

looking nice and clean mate, gl finding the piston

[Fraggle]

FFS another black one, mines getting painted black

Looks propper solid that op, lovely motor

[Dave5300]

cheers mate

[Dave5300]

update,,,, been busy cleaning again chaps, i degreased the block as it was shockingly dirty so out came the wd40 and a toothbrush, came up well, just needs paint now, i also got the main aluminium pieces degreases and glass peened up in work so they look great now, and i also got a new vice and the misses insisted on drilling and fitting it to the bench and i opened up the heater to clean it and i nearly got lost in the forest that fell out of it

















all for now

[Excursion]

The parts look great! I will have my alloy parts vapour blasted too, I have a thing against painting alloy

[jayrs]

all looking good mate.

nice to see ya missis chipping in, if i asked my missis to fit a vice i would simple get 'the look'

dont forget to fit the push fit connector in that inlet for the vac pipe to servo

[Dave5300]

thanks jay, i have it set aside alrite you dont know where i would get the abs version of that push connector? the collar? im missing one

[jayrs]

prob end up being a ford only part if i know fords, but you might be lucky to get ones from a pneumatics or hydraulics place.

i can picture the one you need, have you got a pic of it?

[Dave5300]

ill try get one mate hang on

[Dave5300]

here ya go jay

[jayrs]

ah them ones.

tbh mate, you might not be able to get them without buying a new reservoir

[jonyb4]

you not getting rid of the abs?

if you are i got a non abs servo (or just the res)

but if im not mistaken the vacuum hose that fits the inlet from servo uses the same type of push lock collars

[Dave5300]

ok fellas been busy welding the floor as under the perfect looking floor and seam sealer there was quite a bit of rust in the footwells so out came the grinder and welder, ran out of welding wire so thats why the drivers side isnt finished and they both need seam sealer but getting there, also painted up the block and a pic of all the bits the engines getting, oh and i sored a piston so should be collecting that tomorrrow





out came the grinder






then ran out of wire so shes sitting like his now


and then the block and parts






all for now

[Fraggle]

[jonyb4]

wow done a fantastic job welding that up mate, i love new gaskets sets

we found 2 for the pinto (capri) at the last car show both for £3

[RS EDDIE]

Lovely job your doing here mate...Ive been silently snipering the thread!!!

Glass blasting looks superb, i love the matt finish, might re-do mine like that now ya know!!!

Keep updates coming man!!!!