by tjm07 » Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:28 am
1st post chaps!
I have acquired a swb 08 transit 6 seater 130k. Plans are to use it as a family outings bus, and my daily driver to and from work. I collected van from a garage and towed it home. A family friend owned it, had a problem, had it looked at and decieded against repairing it, It had been sitting at the garage for a year from what I can gather. So towed it home, tried to start it, could get it to fire with some easy start type stuff, would only run if the nuts were revved out of it. So compression test showed nothing on number 4, so engine out, sure enough piston broken. New piston installed, bore wasn't too bad, looked as though it had picked up material off the piston more than anything, so honed it and put back together. Put it in van, reassembled with new head gasket and bolts. Now van starts and runs, ticks over beautifully, under load has a tick knock, changed injector seals, noise still present, and if anything getting worse, travelled 5miles in it and noise is definitely louder. So pulled engine back out complete, what to do next?? Strip and inspect, paying attention to big ends and little ends?
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tjm07 on Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
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