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Vdubkeith wrote:http://www.alanhschofield.com/ourparts/ ... Parts.html



That's where I got mine from

Thanks, I'll order one for each side since I suspect I'll need them both done at some point.

scunnerd25 wrote:Where are you about in central Scotland

I live in Greenock, but the van is currently in a wee place called Strachur, about 20 miles north of Dunoon. Only place I have space to do this kind of work.

Thanks for your advice guys, mm and silverbullet pictures are very helpful here. Would like to hand this job over to someone else but by the time I discovered this rot the van had the engine out and panels off 20 miles from nowhere! Anyway, got the rot in the rear face of the crossmember and arch cu...

Hi all Took the rear arch off today, turns out there's some fairly bad looking rust around the swing arm mount, which really put crumbs in my butter as you can imagine. Here's a picture, sorry not the best but sunlight meant I could hardly see the screen on my phone: http://i1077.photobucket.com/alb...

The lip is very small, only just detectable with my finger but it's the same on all 4 both top and bottom. Did you just use standard piston rings after getting them honed?

As well as a badly corroded head, my DG engine has snapped a piston ring. This has scratched the liner very slightly, but I also noticed a wear lip on all 4 liners. It's not a huge lip, but I imagine it would give me trouble when trying to get the pistons back in...Haynes also says either remove it ...

That's an impressive collection of pictures. Looks like you cut some castings in half there? It's a 1983 van so early exhaust, one stud looks like it has snapped with maybe a quarter inch sticking out, just enough to keep the flange on, the other has snapped off flush or maybe inside the head, I can...

Thanks for that link, lot of good information there (and some stuff I hadn't thought about). I'm picking up another DG engine on Saturday, once I check the condition of that one and get compression test results from the DF hopefully I'll have a better idea what direction to go in here. I'm probably ...

I haven't done a compression test yet but going to borrow one this weekend and check before starting to take the engine out. Both exhaust studs have snapped on no.2 cylinder so it's blowing pretty badly. I'm not looking to make this into a fast van by any stretch, it managed to hold about 55-60 on t...

I was hoping to keep the budget low to be honest! Since this engine is for a high top camper going fast isn't my plan, I just want it to have enough poke so I can hold 60mph on the motorway and the DF just isn't cutting it, DG seemed like a straightforward swap without having to set up any injection...

Piston crown shows the same damage as the combustion chamber, but the bore looks surprisingly good, there's no scratches as you'd expect if loose metal was bouncing around the cylinder. Maybe that damage is from an old problem that was fixed? Typically, I got my left and right and back and front mix...

Hi all I have a DG engine which I was going to use to replace my current slower than slow DF in my camper. This DG has no compression on one cylinder and it seemed to be the exhaust valve, so I removed the head, and found some pitting which (to me) looked pretty bad. I've not checked the valve or se...