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i gave him a ring and he was a wealth of help and information so i'm going to bring the block up to him at some point in the near future and let him give it the once over , and then i suppose we can take it from there
thanks for the pointers and help lads

thanks for that

im in ireland so i'll have to do a bit of research and see can i find someone who knows there stuff here, i was talking to a guy yesterday from v8 tuners who was very very helpfull he recomended a guy called jim robinson in northern ireland . the damage has been caused by water actually being left i...

i had a 4.6 built up engine that was set up with carb and dizzy v belt set uo but it's now knackered due to bad storage i have a option to buy a short engine to replace my damaged 4.6 it's a 4.2 that would have been fitted to a rangerover brand new still in it's green plastic question is will the he...

no but now you say that i know what you mean i'll

thanks for that i'll give it a go tomorrow , i'm gutted to say the least as i had real plans for this , it is actually a 4.6 well thats whats on the crankshaft and it would have been real fun in the little 80" series one lookalike i was intending it for it had been built with loving care each c...

well this might turn into a pic heavy thread now as i went investigating the engine yesterday and got a horrible suprise :shock: but used the camera along the way the lad i bought it from took it out of his land rover and told me he had it well covered and protected from the rain when he delivered i...

not a car but i still cringe out with a few friends on our bikes a good few years ago we pulled up at the traffic lights in our local village right outside the local pub sun shining loads of girls drinking and sutting out enjoying the day , so i decided to be mr cool and see how long i could balance...

ok i'm finally getting around to doing something with this mystry engine as it's running a big holley carb on an edelbrock manifold that really wouldn't suit for what i want it for and i have a single webber that i could fit that came of a 3.5 i'd really like to know what it is is the only way to de...

all i know of the engine is this a friend was working out in kuwait and bought this 110 land rover with this engine fitted, it was according to it's arab owner a crate engine that was sent out from the uk and fitted to the 110 as the origional expired he told my friend it was supposed to be 250bhp !...

ok casting marks aplenty
on the drivers side behind where the starter would sit is hrc2411
underneath the drivers side engine mount wyf11 ove hrc2411
and a large B next to each core plug and on the head 31 over 97 in a circle

would a big end bearing not knock when it was cold too? this is only as it gets up to running temperature/hot and its a deep knock you can feel it through the wing if you lean against it

it's 20 years since i played with petrol engines and then it was minis so here goes i have a 3.5 in a land rover its a 17d engine starts up fine, idles,drives perfectly but develops a loud knock in the front nearside when hot seems to be rev related any ideas ?? oil levels are fine oil is clean the ...