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Hi chaps, Well, got a Stahlwille 'King Dick' 5/8th, plus the base Irwin set. Between them I got the o/s head off pretty quickly yesterday. Great stuff. Can't see any obvious signs of slipped liner (no ridge/seem perfectly level), and gasket although looks ok seems to have signs of leakage on...

Ok, Just bought an irwin base kit, ordered a stahlwille socket and a 750mm breaker bar for friday (rather than the dodgy piece of tubing i tried yesterday and nearly impaled myself when it bent!) Will try socket first, if no joy i'll try irwin. Last resort, petrol and a match. Looking...

Ok, sounds like i should get a quality socket (16mm singe hex?) and an irwin set in case this fails. I can order the irwin from a number of places, anyone suggest what make of socket? Im desperate to get the heads off, find no evidence of a slipped liners ( please!!) get recon heads, new...

Sorry for starting another thread if this has been covered enough in the past (i found some threads but nothing has worked for me) I have finally got to heads and cannot budge any of the bolts (bar one) although only tried corners to keep in sequence. Tried wd40, hammering on an impact...

On closer inspection, deffo had new rocker shaft on on side, and this is the one broken. So maybe cheap crap as u suggest Im now down to heads finally after fighting the damn exhaust heat shields all day. Had a quick go at the heads and man are they tight! I have an 18in torque wrench that...

Replacing camshaft and all rocker gear a given - seeing as one rocker shaft snapped Im just curious to know why the two rocker gears look so different in colour - one side does seem "washed" clean - hence the question really - can coolant get into rocker area with a bad head gasket?

Hi, Has anyone seen rocker gear looking so different on each side? Can this definitely not be coolant from a bad head gasket? I'm just about to get back to it and get the heads off.

Ok, worried now! Maybe someone replaced them? No obvious signs of someone being here before, but one rocker bolt was not exactly tight. Pics here (forgive the crap site as yet) https://sites.google.com/site/paulsroverv8/engine-main-problem-pictures

Yeah, deffo no wetness in car. I now have both rockers, inlet manifold and valley gasket off. One side is dark brown/red/black and the other shiny silver rockers....sounds like water been cleaing one side? I'm sticking my steps and photos to a web page will share soon.

Ok, had a few hours today in between the wifes desire to drag me to b n q for paint. Anyway, got all gubbins off, inlet manifold is off and npone rocker. The rocker covers are a right pain as none of my sockets will fit into the cover recesses properly, so they taking longer than everything...

Thx Ok i am going to strip it down and see what i find 2mins in - taken plenum cover off and one of the trumpets is not seated at all, literally plonked against others Do these fellas just push in? Possible this is my mysterious new clonking? Just before i started stripping i ran it...

Thx One question, i just started her up again and that loud clonking is there immediately - could this possibly mean it is not a liner as i read somewhere that a slipped liner only makes noise when warm?

thanks i was just gooling and found this video - this is the sound I have! Slipped cylinder liner? - YouTube so it looks like a slipped liner indeed. bugger you think im wasting my time striping down? whats the cheapest route, just get a new complete engine or attempt to strip and...

Hi all, First time poster. Suspect I'll be spending a LOT of time on here from now! I recently (3 weeks ago) bought myself my first Range, a 95 4.6 HSE P38. 143k miles. I love it. However, I'm not sure why! It clearly has 'issues' which I'll list below for any advice anyone can offer, but as...