B60 engine carnage

[01CA81]

Hello everyone,

Im in the process of stripping my original B60 and transferring parts to the new one. This is some of the carnage that was unearthed in the process.

 

I found out last summer that despite my stubborn attempts of playing with fuel and spark, I overlooked the basics. Compression check revealed a dead cylinder. It actually ran quite decently considering the damage to include a few short drives with no noise. I should have known better…but I digress. Bore scope revealed a crack in the cylinder liner and damage to the piston from fod ingestion. Other projects took precedence as I weighed the options of rebuild, new engine from the UK and others. 

A few months ago I found a NOS B60 Mk.5G/L for a song, which is a stationary application so all the Ferret bits will have to be transferred over. In the final picture. 

Right - here’s the damage so far. I’ll pull the head off when the swap is complete and the new engine is happy.

 

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 10:56 PM by 01CA81

[teletech]

Does the stationary engine have a higher compression ratio than the Ferret engine?

[01CA81]

2 hours ago, teletech said:

Does the stationary engine have a higher compression ratio than the Ferret engine?

Great question. It should, all literature I’ve found points to Mk5 being the wet sump version of the Mk6. I asked around and couldn’t find much on the G/L spec but it was certainly a military not civilian application.