So far, with the engine out, i've removed the plenum chamber, intake manifold, valley gasket, water pump, rocker covers and the rocker shafts.
The inside of the engine is fairly sickly in appearance, the oil sitting around the rocker shafts was burned black and full of tiny "lumps", shards of metal - bad news! on further inspection there were tiny "bites" out of the metal of the block just above the camshaft in the same region as the tappets. This is somewhat of a mystery to me as the camshaft (from in-situ inspection) seems perfectly healthy and all of the tappets are also reasonably good, all have a rounded wear pattern on the camshaft contact surface - a sign of rotary wear (a good thing).
The damage to the block (while not visible itself) is in the region of the bottom of the valley between the left and right rows of tappets (can be seen in the last photo - if the block valley were really a valley, the problem would be the erosion of the riverbanks, only the banks are made of cast aluminium... oh dear!)
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It came out! Bloody buggery.
My sincere apologies for the state of the engine. I was assured by the previous owner that it was okay, head gaskets were replaced etc...that goes to prove that Damien and John Ahern in Kill, Co Kildare, are not to be dealt with as the facts evidently don't meet what I was told.
If I have any time during the summer/etc, I'll be down, wrench in hand..
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Either way, at least you didn't spend €3k on the car, then have to spend ANOTHER €4-5k in parts/repair to fix a situation caused by you-know-who's foul manners
Yes it came out fine in the end, don't worry about it, i suspect the head gaskets were replaced along with the inner nearside wing! And they didn't replace the outer wing... WHY? By the way... did you ever take the sump off?
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