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What did you and your MKV do today?
dazza:
--- Quote from: skkane on September 30, 2023, 12:07:20 pm ---Made a stew. A few dabs of WD40 & brake cleaner and she'll be as good as new.
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That looks nasty keep us updated on the rebuild. :popcornsoda:
skkane:
--- Quote from: dazza on October 03, 2023, 12:17:11 pm ---That looks nasty keep us updated on the rebuild. :popcornsoda:
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Will do. Cost would've been too high to rebuild this one, cylinder walls looked like a total mess, pistons also... 300k KMs block. Will try to sell what parts I get left with, might make for a good project for someone looking to throw some $$ at it.
I ended up getting a used CDL engine with 72k miles (or so they said). Block looks good, pistons look good, driveshaft & bearings also. Cams looked better than mine but it has 4 leaking valves so I took the cylinder head to have it rebuilt.
Took the injectors to have them cleaned and redone with seals and what not, 4 brand new ones were out of my budget with how much I spent so far. Guy said it was not injector failure that caused the boom but a bad valve which broke, hitting the injector head and the piston, it was not opening all the way or something along those lines. At first I thought I had a bad injector on cyl 4 which caused all the mayhem.
Turbo was also on it's way out sooner or later, blades were touching the casing and I found oil on my intercooler pipe. Took that to have it rebuilt also.
Hope she turns out ok. Guess this tired engine didn't have the best compression hence why I was making 25-30hp less on the same tune with the same parts as a friend of mine. Should pull harder, hopefully it lasts for a good bit. :driver:
skkane:
Had the turbo redone. It had shaft play, blades were touching the casing. They looked pretty sh*tty.
skkane:
Cylinder head done. No more leaking and looks mint. Got the injectors cleaned, along with changing seals and microfilters. Hopefully she'll be back on the road by the end of this week.
skkane:
Slowly getting there
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