Surveyor

1967 LAND ROVER SERIES IIA AMBULANCE TRUCK MK9

https://stock.morrisleslie.com/stock/details?reg=MKH232E

Any allotments nearby could be used for clouches to grow things, if spelt right

How's the planning application going

Why not Museum of the Cold War and a sub section Nuclear Armageddon 

11 hours ago, Tony B said:

Best memory of that time, I had my old para bike with a ripped up saddle. The most beautiful woman came up and in a deep husky voice said 'Can I ride your bike?' They carried me home in a bucket.

And no picture

Was thinking of positive, I remember flying out when the news showed we won the Olympic Bid then the tube bombs going off, flew into Edinburgh, just and passed about 20 Police transit vans heading to the airport to close it down

Noticed that the entire contents of Terminal 1 are to be auctioned off including memorabilia from the 50's, could argue not really for this site but how many of us have travelled through it

https://www.cagp.com/events/heathrow-terminal-1/

Might be an idea to have that explained on the web pages and at the entrance so people understand, I see where you are coming from but still not 100% sure

Is Holocaust the right name to use as this is more associated with the Nazis?

Just a thought

17 minutes ago, john1950 said:

Great piece of information.

Agreed, 

That may make things easier to do, wonder if my mechanic has a spectacle trailer I can borrow, yes I know need to watch weight

Thanks

2 hours ago, john1950 said:

It would be on a spectacle lift.

Now you've said it yes, so I assume 2 wheels off the road makes it a trailer

Just heading up the road past Inverkeithing and over took a scarp car lorry, it had a full load on the bed and was towing one which front end was undrivable, did have the plates of the lorry on it, so that makes me wonder if we have some one know if they have an exemption for this

17 minutes ago, john1950 said:

Here the wind is straight off the sea, today it is bitterly cold. No work outside today.

2 inches of snow where I am in Fife and the cold wind, good thing was once paths clear of snow they dried out

22 minutes ago, john1950 said:

Head still has to come off I think.

Yes just getting there

Still cant get hold of mechanic, the part he turned is in the photograph, yes learning I know, the "Nut" is 41mm if that helps

Mechanical idiot

Just now, john1950 said:

Sounds as if some bits in one combustion chamber have rearranged themselfs and now there is not enough room for everything.

Think ugh

5 hours ago, ruxy said:

Thanks for the reminder , confirm is - almost 4 turns of camshaft (not crankshaft).  Brain dead just now with sinus infection , can't stay in house popping Paracetamol , may as well kill myself converting pallets into Micky Mouse concrete shuttering ,  now if it were on my drive - I would have to sockets & spanners out in preference  LoL

Thanks, the coffee and bacon butties are ready, lol will call him tomorrow as he is doing Mother's day

5 hours ago, john1950 said:

Chill and refocus, At least it is on your drive out of harms way.

Yes as my drive is slightly up hill had to persude recovery to back up drive, he was great and thanked his company 

Ruxy

Heres the link, all the information I have is on the 2 threads, didn't think I get as much on this thread, thr description is from my Mechanic who is a good one

Richard

8 hours ago, mike30841 said:

Try taking off the rocker shaft and remove the pushrods - keep them in order by pushing them through a piece of cardboard and number them. Turn the engine over on the starting handle. If it still locks up the problem is probably with the camshaft/followers. If it now turns freely the problem lies with the valves. A dropped or broken valve could jam the engine if the combustion chamber is small enough, I suppose, but logic suggests it would lock up on one rotation of the crankshaft.

Many thanks, just need to get time and help from the mechanic

Thanks for advice once I get to bottom will advise, but funds needed

On ‎09‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 3:31 PM, john1950 said:

Remove drive belts from Ancileries just to rule out a problem with them. Does the engine turn with the clutch depressed? I presume 4 turns is the Crankshaft, that would be 2 full turns for the camshaft and fuel pump as they run at 1/2 crankshaft revolutions

Errrrr, I am sorry cant answer, the breakdown and recovery crew think it might be the oil pump that failed to give the enging freezing

4 hours ago, john1950 said:

If the push rods were O.K. that probably rules out cam follower. One step forward.

Any help for this mechanical idiot is gratefully recieved

1 hour ago, ruxy said:

The fact that you can turn 4 times but not complete the full cyle indicates to me there is no problem at the bottom end or pistons.  I discount a fuel-pump problem (I think it would strip /snap cog-belt).  Being able to bar over just short of the complete 4-stroke cycle , then a brick wall -  that indicates to me a problem on the valve gear for just a single cylinder, if the push rods turn as they should  - then the tappet should be OK .  Of course it could be something far more sinister like a huge chunk of piston skirt unable to fall clear into the sump. On the basis of BIG racket = BIG  £  expensive problem , the noise you describe is not so bad ,  thinking of two failures where I was determined to get home on reduced power , very reduced.  One a valve head had more or less dropped off , the other as a valve hard seat had come loose in a alloy head.   Over 100 miles in first case & 200 miles in second case that I kept the engine running.  After those two experiences - I have held a belief that a mechanical failure is not so bad, that is as long as the engine will cycle.

It was quite so agree, had a VW Polo, tining belt jumper three teeth grinding was an understaement