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Blown engine
madteg - 10/7/10 at 10:20 AM

Just bin out for a blat seventy mph loud puff loads of smoke in mirror, now running on three cylinders. Looks like head gasket has blown from cylinder to outside of head, i have never seen this before now going to strip it down.


MkII - 10/7/10 at 10:28 AM

Ive seen head gasket failure between no. 4 cylinder and outside of head/block on landrover deisels, not that this help you much but just thought I'd let you know and in my experience just a case of check head for true and replace gasket. youl be back on the road by tea time. .m.


hobbsy - 10/7/10 at 11:58 AM

Head gasket is better than a rod out the side or a holed piston

Always look on the brightside!


madteg - 10/7/10 at 12:27 PM

There is two inch missing out the front of head gasket, me very happy now easy fix and no sighns of detonation on pistons will be back on road soon.


Mal - 10/7/10 at 02:44 PM

A little off your head gasket problem, but your listing says you are building a stainless steel chassis. Is this the one you now have on the road? If so have you had any of the problems that folk say will arise from using stainlessfor chassis construction?

Mal


Stuart_B - 10/7/10 at 07:04 PM

not to bad then kev, hope you get it sorted soon.

stuart


madteg - 10/7/10 at 07:19 PM

This has a stainless chassis had no problems what so ever bin on road four years now done eleven thousand miles. All tig welded by coded welder


[Edited on 10/7/10 by madteg]


hobbsy - 11/7/10 at 06:13 PM

And its nice and shiny!