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I don't know how the oil gets to the head. Never been near the camshaft. I do know that there is one hole at the front left corner (cylinder 1) of the block which is above the camshaft. It passes through the head gasket and though a passage way...

Changed the colour of my wheels back in 2017 from standard silver to bronze metallic 1 2 3

Brilliant. Very good show on the work you’re doing. Makes me want to hunt out another 90 and get tore in. Good progress mate…keep it coming. 🤙

I am very pleased to hear you got it done and 2.5 hours! Well done.

Righ hand side of tub skimmed with fine filler and block sanded to smooth out any small dents

Sounds like the oil feed to rocker shaft is same as 200tdi, via a machined flat on front cam bearing which pumps oil to rocker shaft, when i did my 200tdi in each rocker is 2 drillings that you can push standard size drill into ( can’t recall...

No point in paying more cause he's a nice bloke. You need to gauge what its costing to restore it. Can you buy one thats complete & on the road between buying this then throwing ££ at it for the same amount with all the hassle. The name of the...

Yeah, it's for a less used daily driver, so changing yearly sounds a bit tedious. I'll try to find a more convenient supplier for GKN. I hope it doesn't come to changing both. Appreciate it!

Not mine dude👍

That reminds me, we were going to an off-road weekend and when passing through a village there was this guy stood just over the parking space line and into incoming traffic while looking at his phone, well, I couldn't help myself... Beeeeep, the...

Just solder the wires directly to the light board🤔

They all do what? 🤯

Its in a disco, so neutral territory :p

Swear the milk goes in and the frothy-coffee-steam goes out Shirley?

Should have been from the start🤷

Its bogoff day so bogoff 🤣🤣

RattyMcratface 🤣 🤣

Is it in a tratter?

Oooft your at the other side of the uk from me im in Scotchland...Maybe @DevonGuy might know.?? :):) Ive heard of both & they seam to be decent.

Yep, you just keep on repairing and suffering a poor design, badly assembled from shoddy components. I’ll go for the evolutionary improvement approach. My simplified P38 runs superbly with its top-hat engine, coil springs, and needs minimal...

That's true, all you need is a sack barrow. Kick the rusty panels and chassis out of the way and drag the engine out. Edit; Ratty will have chewed most of what's left of the chassis

Was thinking of just brining burning gear & my engine lift. Its sat so long its like the crumbliest flakiest chocolate..... 🤣 🤣

Today I found a hill steep enough to test the hill descent and it works! Forwards and backwards.

You may want to skim through some of them, two of them are rather long documenting the whole build process most of which is not relevant to your original painting question!

SKU: 564332 Injector new Does this injector fit on the two studs on the head? There are some that use a bolt & before ordering checking to get correct injectors, 1987 90 2.5 na Xmod.

Bring yer trailer to the Dorset Party after Stan slips of to Frogland. We'll give you a hand to load it on 🤣

Offers of bellybutton fluff n half eaten mars bars will be considered....Pics of bellybutton would be an advantage.....

I did not think t-wash was a true etch though hence I still used an etch primer on things that were getting a body coloured top coat. Everythign else is zinc 182 for as much protection as posisble.

Tyre wear is good, still on the same set when I bought the truck, fronts will need changing in the next couple of months.

Hello, I noticed my front centre interior map/ courtesy lights not working. Upon further inspection, the multi-plug looks like one of the pins (far left) has broken off. I've searched all over the web to find a replacement, but no luck. Does...