BennehBoy's D2 adventure

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Clean the bores out with sopay water, then wipe them out with some ATF on a rag, you will see the cloth turn Black!!

The ATF will draw out all the crap in the bores ;)

Great thread by the way. ;)
 
Hi I had watched this thread from reading a while ago, just interested in anything engine(call me geek:oops:) great read.

Never seen one of those Honers before. Only seen/used the long block ones.

Can I ask did you just hone up? I was always under the impression you needed the cross hatch type pattern.

Asking no criticism of your work.

J
 
Bennehboy said:
Yeah I forgot to write that I mic'd them afterward and the readings are identical, the hone shouldn't take any diameter out of the bore, it's just scoring the surface.
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ideally when hone you would remove some material,a quick surface scoring will polish off fairly quickly your better a thou over size but decent hone
 
marjon said:
Hi I had watched this thread from reading a while ago, just interested in anything engine(call me geek:oops:) great read.

Never seen one of those Honers before. Only seen/used the long block ones.

Can I ask did you just hone up? I was always under the impression you needed the cross hatch type pattern.

Asking no criticism of your work.

J
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they give a cross hatch as long as you match speed and stroke
 
marjon said:
Ok I can understand that.but looks only upward stroke used here.

But is a cross hatch required/better/not needed ?

J
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The above is a brush hone, or as i like to call 'em dingle ball hones ;)

The correct angle for cross hatch lines to intersect is approximately 41-45 degrees. Too steep an angle promotes oil migration down the cylinder resulting in a thin oil film which can cause ring and cylinder scufflng.

Too flat a cross hatch angle can hold excess oil which conversely causes thicker oil films which the piston rings will ride up on or hydroplane. You'll also get excessive oil consumption

A "cross-hatch" pattern is used to retain oil to ensure proper lubrication and ring seal of pistons in cylinders. A smooth glazed cylinder wall can cause piston ring and cylinder scuffing, it'll also cause an improper seal which is bad ;)
 
@marjon the cross hatch is there, but the photo was from before I wiped the bore out, so you only see the exit angle of the brush in the atf/slurry which looks like a single line.

@jamesmartin I'm probably going to give it another blast anyway. It's had three sets of 12 strokes in opposite directions up to now. The drill I'm using is probably slightly too high rpm so I've to go at it like billy-oh to get the right angle.
 
Looks like I need at least 1 new piston.....
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This is No5. I know what caused this, I had a failed injector about a year back - self inflicted because numb nuts here didn't tighten the injector clamp down... this was when I'd done the injector seals 3 times in a row chasing an imbalance. Must've dropped part of the tip into the bore :/
 
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OK, so more problems....

Pistons 2 & 5 have excessive wear around the edges of the piston crown... but it's not on the thrust side, having given the pistons a wiggle test on the wrist pins I think the small end bushings in the conrods are shot. No2 is worn on the front side, and no 5 on the rear side - I reckon this is probably piston slap due to the piston rocking on the wrist pins. All 5 pistons & pins were new at the last rebuild (60k miles ago), looking back at the pics 2 & 5 had the same sort of wear on them. Clearly I missed this at the time.

Anyhow - 2 new conrods required. :(
 
For the cost of some petrol & some red wine I now have in my possession 5 x replacement pistons & rods, a spare crank, a spare oil pump, and assorted other D2 parts. This down to the amazing generosity of a member on another forum. It's this type of spirit and generosity that makes these forums & the land rover owners community so fantastic!

So, you might ask why these were going spare? The original engine had shredded a valve spring, pretty much destroying most of the top end, and leaving a nice stamp mark on no 4 piston crown.

All of the small end bushings on these seem really nice and tight compared to mine, I dropped a conrod out of each set and mine are way more worn.

I'd love to swap all 5 rods in but I'm not sure I can trust no4, so will keep the best one from my set & swap 4 out.

I may also swap my 2 'slapped' pistons with 2 of these, and resell the brand new ones that I just purchased - we'll see.... I can't get the vehicle back together this weekend because I'm waiting on an AP Racing clutch plate & Helix cover to arrive.....

Anyhow, some pics:
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The pistons are now having a nice paraffin soak.
 
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dieseldog69 said:
Are those thrust faces on the piston skirts impregnated with anything?

Hope it wasn't a cheapie £2.99 bottle of plonk ;)
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I've no idea if they are impregnated, the pads look no different post clean to before...

And no it was 3 quite nice bottles :D

Anyhow I'm going to use 3 of these + the 2 new ones, most of mine have signs of some slap around the top - I may need to buy a rod yet, or chance the one from no4... I'll measure it up first though.

Mainly just need to clean everything down now but don't have the energy.

Also looks like I could do with a new viscous pulley bearing.
 
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