History
I bgt the car in 2020ish and had the engine rebuilt to 2l. Moderate cam with about 130hp. Alan claimed to get a bit more when he had it on his rolling road.
I added an extra tuna can slump. Temperature, oil pressure and Air/Fuel Ratio gauges. All good prevention steps. I hoped.
We had quite a few good trips in it. However, on the last trip I noticed it wasn't idling as well and not accelerating as before.
Alan when setting the valves commented that he didn't think the pistons rings had completely sealed.
It took me quite a while to find out that one of the Weber floats had a hole in it so was overfilling the bowl.
Next a disaster struck when I lost the slump plug and all the oil from the engine.
After refilling I hoped I had got away with it but I was consuming a lot of oil.
The car sat for about 3 months at AHS waiting it's turn.
First when the engine was dropped Alan discovered the crank seal was leaking.
I guess we could of stopped there but we agreed to carry on. The plan was to take the heads off and check the big ends.
Next call I got was that the case was open. Main bearings gone, crank/case std/std. Top of valves gone. Maybe some cam followers. Some rings never sealed. The Alan thinks I switched to full synthetic too quickly.
Complete disaster avoided
Next steps
12 week wait for new rings
New bearings
New valves
Rehone pistons
Back together
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