Alas it is not my engine - mine is glorious recon blue and does not have reinforcing ribs.

There's probably more in the military version - all the NATO trailer stuff is in there over and above the normal lights. Useful spare cores IMO, however I can't find the military one listed on Craddocks site. If you're not electrically inclined it's almost certainly better to warm your wallet...

Not yet! I may get it dropped off tomorrow evening, logistics permitting - and I know she won't pass because there's some little bits of chassis welding/fettling that are needed. My friendly MOT station can mark those up and my chum will work his magic with the result. However the engine...

Will do when I'm near it......

Ribs....... the ones behind the water pump I suppose? http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z164/RUXPHOTO/IMG_1210.jpg http://forum.landrovernet.com/showthread.php/117288-Engines-Which-one

They are M8...... Thanks. Learning slowly here......

Ahhhh - where?

lol - thanks - I wondered where you were.... It's nothing other than curiosity that drives the question so at the moment I shall politely decline - however should any of your bits drop off or leak as they are prone, then do let me know - tis all of ten minutes.... Castor Glos. Chapter...

Yes it is. It takes me a good 5 minutes and a good deal of puffing and wheezing to get down to ground level and under the Landy. Then I inevitably have left the socket/spanner/screwdriver/widget just out of reach. Then the wife or the granddaughter will call with some issue that takes...

Hi chaps, How can I identify whether my MOD rebuilt engine is 3 or 5 bearing without dismantling anything? TIA

Thanks - yes, I think they probably are, but the engine's done less than an hour since resurrection, and in hindsight I suspect the pushrod came out in the first couple of minutes. In time I'll pick up another head, get it hard-seated and flow it - but that's for another day....

That's probably the most likely scenario - there's no damage that I can see and she was running sweetly. I shall do the old school tuning routine this morning and bung her in for MOT next week. Wish her luck! My granddaughter calls her Queen Elizabeth The Shed.

An apprentice would have to try quite hard to get it that wrong... It is *spectacularly* wrong. Really.

And having taken the rocker cover off, all became clear..... a pushrod waving in the air, and an inlet rocker completely upside down. Five minutes and order is restored and it runs like a sewing machine.... I bought this thing after it had been sitting in a barn for ten years - the engine's a...

Team - thanks. I haven't found the time yet to strip the beast - and yes, I thought initially that it was the timing chain hitting the cover - it sounds very similar.....but I can feel it so it ain't. We shall see in due course - I shall report back.

Here's a Q - 2.25 petrol ex-MoD in my 109 which I've only run a little whilst readying the shed for her MoT. The top end - inside the rocker cover, 2/3 of the way from the front occasionally gives a loud !!CLAT!! then returns to normal for several seconds, then another loud !!CLAT!! - repeat...

See the Springs and Dampers bit. just FYI - Technical Papers - OptimumG

Hi - a list would be excellent please make one! BTW - what's a setpin?

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