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Feilding, manawatu, New Zealand
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Mar 2013
Still hoping to put the car on the road and clock up some miles.
Expecting the job to develop, I spent a little time with a steam cleaner, to shift the majority of the build up of grime & oil around the engine bay and underneath. ( And a plausible excuse to drive the car to work a couple of times)
If the oil smoke wasn't a blocked breather, a little more digging was required.
Next job was lifting the head. Disappointingly nothing too scary to see. So was ‘what next’. After a couple of weeks of consideration, we (I) bit the bullet. Out with the engine.
Once engine was out, and the ‘box was off, the first 2 things that struck me were
• How HEAVY the engine is
• Someone at BLMC had added a stuffing great steel plate between the engine & box. I bet there aren’t any lumps of steel like that in a lotus Elan!
Still hoping to put the car on the road and clock up some miles.
Expecting the job to develop, I spent a little time with a steam cleaner, to shift the majority of the build up of grime & oil around the engine bay and underneath. ( And a plausible excuse to drive the car to work a couple of times)
If the oil smoke wasn't a blocked breather, a little more digging was required.
Next job was lifting the head. Disappointingly nothing too scary to see. So was ‘what next’. After a couple of weeks of consideration, we (I) bit the bullet. Out with the engine.
Once engine was out, and the ‘box was off, the first 2 things that struck me were
• How HEAVY the engine is
• Someone at BLMC had added a stuffing great steel plate between the engine & box. I bet there aren’t any lumps of steel like that in a lotus Elan!
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