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thanks chris - which composites did you use (and where from) - the ones without raised rings around the oil feeder hole or did you find some with?

apologies for bringing up an old thread, but did you ever get to the bottom of this Chris, and find a solution? I had the same problem i think with composite gaskets on a 3.5 and stretch bolts, leading to oil escaping around the oil drilling but compression ok within the fire rings. On taking apart ...

yep i'm sure - have every mot from when the guy first put it in in the mid eighties - just shows its the way you maintain them (or not) rather than the miles

I'll strip it further and then mic everything up on both blocks and then decide what to do next.

mike, thanks again. I realised the cam runs at half engine speed but does the dizzy as well (so rotating the one extra turn would have brought my crank and cam marks into line, but also the dizzy one complete turn so the rotor arm back at cylinder 1 position)? As for the "under the bench" ...

another question i forgot to add was regarding sealing of heads to blocks in general. I had fitted new composite gaskets and new stretch bolts and torqued up as per the manual (the 90degree) method - but it appears they didn't seal very well - see pic below: http://www.log-rover.co.uk/Other%20motors...

kevin and mike, thanks for those comments and advice - time for me to have a good think about what to do next as it doesnt make good reading.... On the subject of timing, whilst stripping down further today I set the crank at TDC (by pointer) and then checked the rotor arm was in roughly the correct...

thanks for all of those mike. pit & hoist - yep, the pit was there when we bought the house, and was the deciding factor for me :) , the hoist i put in last year picking up the trolley and chain block of ebay - work really well - although shoving the rangie back and fore underneath was a bit of ...

Hello, great forum, read loads, very helpful, started my rebuild today, so thought I'd start posting and seek some help and advice. My intro - mostly have land rovers (including the "Log-Rover"), a Rover P4 100, an Autotune Gemini kitcar (fiat 2l), and a Range Rover (all viewable in www.lo...