Having done a lot of engine hokey cokey over the last few weeks (in, out, in, back ruddy out again) I wonder what the shortest amount of time your engine has ever been in? Ours was a whole 49 hours and covering a massive 100 miles before the valve head entirely disintegrated and clunked its way through my very shiny new upgraded engine. Its now gone on its holiday hundreds of miles back daaaaaaaaaahn saaaaaaaarf to our lovely engine builder. Cheer me up and tell me your tales of engine woe
Id had the van 3 days and was told it had a fully rebuilt engine More like it had new heads and the bottom end hadent been touched So on the way back from vanfest after 3 days of ownership the bottom end went I had it rebuilt and have done less than a thousand miles since and now the case is having to be split again
I installed one for a customer and covered zero miles. When it warmed up a piston started to tap the head, it didn't have any deck height. Supplier swapped for another. PITA, but stuff happens. Got a good one second time round.
Couple of months ago, took engine out for the first time to do flywheel oil seal, replaced it with a new one that came with the van, it was new but of indeterminate age, engine back in started up leaked worse than before, 1/2 hour later it was out again!
I put a new engine in henry.... Two days later it came out ,flywheel oil seal was not seated correctly... Then after 10km back axle decided to come adrift...
When we bought Gusbus back from Leicester, we joined the M1 - filled up with fuel, sat in the slow lane & by slow lane we really mean slow..45KMH flat out there was 5mm endfloat on the crank, it was foobar'd
And don't forget mines had the big and little ends done by me which didn't help, took straight back out again and shipped to Scotland on a pallet, stripped to every last washer, checked measured and reassembled, pallet back down here all because the silencer baffle was faulty. That's been quite annoying and time consuming. It's still under warrenty.
When i was a lad i bought a second hand mk3 cortina 1600l from a dealer , the car was only 18mths old , i had it for 20mins before some druken arse demolished it and wrote it of
10 to 15 minutes.... engine I'd had out a few weeks ago... put it back in and the accelerator cable got hung up even though I'd started to fish it... so I had to pull it out and start again
Mine went back in at about 9.30pm new years eve, and by 9.45 it was decided it was coming back out again the next morning. No time to drop it straight away, we had beer to drink.
