Aussies are some of the most friendly people in the world - I should know, I married one!
Ian, Allan, Miggles, not to worry, you're quite safe!
Today:
Finished tearing down the busted 5M from the old soarer. I've learned a lot from this excercise. This motor's a 5M-GEU and has EGR on it (My current 5M doesn't) but it's also older than mine, has a square tooth cambelt (as opposed to my round tooth one) and the older style square cross section fuel rail.
Yeah great, so what, it's busted! That's where things are pretty cool (for me at least). The guy who gave it to me said it was seized and that he suspected oil starvation. Thing is, every part I pulled off was massively lubed and easy to get off, no discolouration in any of the parts, that sort of thing. It stunk but it'd been sitting for who knows how long. Anyway, I pulled the crank off today and found the culprit - #6, big end, spun bearing. I've never seen one of these before and man, was it impressive! The bearing had turned into what looked like wax and was in 4 pieces just sorta smeared onto the crankshaft rod journal. Cool! Needless to say, the crankshaft's probably totally useless now (too bad the rest of it was perfect!).
The rest of the engine looks really good and I was especially impressed by the condition of the block. The cylinder bores were very clean but probably too much so, I really couldn't see any crosshatch left on them.
And if anyone's ever asked, yes the 7M block is different to a 5M - the ribs between the cylinders are fatter in places on the 5M and would have to be machined out to allow the extra width of the 6M/7M counterweights. Probably much more expensive than getting my 7M decked, bored and prepped for OS pistons/rings!
So that's pretty much it for today. I'll hopefully get the crank out of the 7M this week and see what we have to work with.
Love this stuff!
