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Hey guys, chasing a set of pushrods, or even mix and match pushrods, I have a set, one is bent and a few have a little more than surface rust, any help would be greatly appreciated

Got 4 pistons out, the motor is still stuck, time for a big steam clean at work tomorrow and try to get number 3&4 pistons out, followed by the harmonic balancer and the crank and cam. Here are a few photos of pull apart. I am chasing a few pushrods, if anyone has any they don't have a use for a...

Hey Stephen, could not find any closer to home, was told this one spun over but it appears not.

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Picked up a 138 grey today, drove 550km each way to pick it up, what do you do straight after getting home from a 1100km trip? Strip the motor down of course, found a few undesired things in the process, it hey, what are projects without challenges, found 1 bent pushrod, and a lot of milky sludge in...

Thanks guys for a little insight, there are a heap of tricks going around but, the thing that spins me is no one ever gives specifics on there's tricks... Fitting a Vauxhall crank to improve strength... Yeah and model of Vauxhall? Or the engine model? Mitsubishi rods... Year and model? Or engine mod...

I am a heavy diesel apprentice so I will probably try to do all bar the valves and bore by myself

Thanks fellas, I was thinking along the lines of, reborn .30 thou, reground cam, bigger valves, crow valve springs, clean up the intake and exhaust a bit for a bit better flow,and twin stromberg a, is that an alright sounding setup for a weekend car? Is there anything else I may have to do?

Hey guys, I'm in the early stages of building a hot grey for my EK ute, I'm needing a bit of advice in which direction to take and where to source parts, and a few specifications, this is my first motor build, so please don't start cutting me down, so I have a virgin motor and my first move is to bo...

hahaha, well alot of people like it, but me and it get critisized alot about being gay because its pink. But i dont really care, because those people own them little rice burner peices of crap, and I know mines more of a man car.

its the only way trev, got to try it once...

Again, sorry about the wait, here they are: http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x365/fud2/471579_2985631602013_140339614_o.jpg the day i drove it home http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x365/fud2/461601_2966465162864_1357867286_o.jpg the tray http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x365/fud2/581207_330...

Sorry guys, been real busy with hsc and real slack, should have done this a month or two ago. Well the good news is that i got her regoed and have been driving it around for a while now, not sure is steve jackson or ash have seen it around. It flies, does the garunteed 130km/h top speed, not a smidg...

Devilrod wrote:

Fud wrote:
hahahahaha, might have to do a bit of work with the cordless drill then

Dont forget to take the passenger door handle off too....

haha, thats borderline serial killer.