Thepowerofdiesel - Project 165

Evening all, a couple of you may recognize me.

Though seen as im the owner of a gen4 and after been directed this way I would register and post a couple of pictures of my current project. Wont bore you with too much, but would be nice to have a few opinions and help now and again.

So here she is just a few photos to show the basic story so far, at the moment the shell is at the sandblasters ready to be blasted so I can get down to repairing all the holes that have appeared over the years.











Good old rust







You get the Idea anyway there are loads of pictures here http://s146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/itsdieselpower/Project 165/?albumview=slideshow of the progress if you feel like a browse.

Oh yes and Happy new year to all!

 

Thanks for the Warm welcome guys.

Why would you want to see more pictures of the rust :shock will have a look though the pictures there is like 140 odd at the moment there are quite a few holes though as Mr Sherv said this English weather and roads has not done it any favors.

The stand was a must, floor pans will be cut out so will help massively to do this and weld in. Yes I think I will weld the seams up also try and add a bit more strength back into her. As I say waiting for it to be blasted so only then will the extent of holiness be know of course I will update you with pictures of this also.

 

Stands are a kit off ebay £170 if I remember correctly, now they are nothing special and will be honest I could have made a better job and made some myself I just wanted to save the time doing so.





Pictures of the rust....

 

Ah yes told you there were a lot of pictures, there is surface rust around the engine bay but nothing major.

The Boot rust you say

 

Got a few more pictures for you only from saturday these, they tell the story better than I do. You may start to notice I am slightly crazy in how I go about these things, but im an Agricultural engineer what do you expect.

Well the engine has been looking at me with puppy dog eyes, I said to myself I wasnt going to touch it till I knew what state my shell come back in, but bugger it. I wanted to do something so the engine had a bit of strip down with a lot of ideas going though my head of a nice paint job and perhaps a bit of tuning but nothing silly.

Here it is....




Charge cooler removed with complimentary oil :roll


Gearbox removed, no pictures of clutch It did look ok to be fair but will probably replace it none the less just for piece of mind.



Mounted on my engine stand


Cat removed


Intake manifold removed, gunk comes FOC




Exhaust manifold has been repaired at some point but is starting to crack again along the weld......


Removed the turbo and manifold



Think the turbo may have seal issues..... about a tablespoon of oil poured out when I turned it upside down


I couldnt find my small pullers so bugger it, what will do a lot will do a little as they say. :lol If only I could pull the ladies as well........... I can but dream.


Timing belt looks a little slack in its old age.


So this is what it looks like now.