Hi Clay
My 2 cents worth coming up I've been playing with all sizes of marine diesels for the last 46 years and these things ring true no matter what.
When you put a little oil in the cylinder it helps to seal the rings if compression goes up you have worn rings that's the reality of it if you put the oil in and the compression stayed down you have an issue with guides or valve seats, is your engine puffing into the rocker cover when you take the breather of with engine running, no the maybe not guides/valves, puffing from dipstick probably rings.
However as the other guys have said figures aren't that bad so just drive it and keep an eye on it you know you will have to attend to it at some stage.
As I said just my to cents worth
Neil
Member of WA FB/EK Car Club
Frankenstein EK V6 Ute
The Reverend FB Station Wagon Project
1950's Commer Light Truck (2.5 Ton)
Thanks Neil. I will try the dipstick but yes, I’ll keep driving it for a while yet. My old 192 was just as noisy and just kept going after 120,000 miles. Didn’t use oil like this one. Neither did the other four high mileage seven bearing sixes I’ve done a lot of miles with. HK 186 190,000 miles. HX 202 220,000km. VK 202 efi 170,000km. Reco VH 202 in EK 120,000 miles. None of them used more than 500ml between changes every 5000km.
Unfortunately (or not?) didn’t see any damsels Rob. Too many pedestrians to excite Eldred, but I did spin the rears on the hard sand with him in mind.
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Very nice beach pictures Clay. Was that you leaving those skid marks on the sand?? Perhaps the Rowley Pk Speedway sticker on the back window of the Ute gave you some inspiration?
I used koprkote neverseize or some such harv. And yes Stephen a few skids were inspired. Must stop that as I am very happy with drive train as is in one piece.
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Sampson's came home from hospital today. Wounds from former life (hose reel) all healed. The offset adjustment surgery gives me 10mm driver side and 5mm passenger side clearance from rim face to stock guard lip roughly. Rims are 202 - 205mm with slightly different offsets. So by swapping them side to side i can even up the offsets to around 8mm either side. I should get away with 205 tyres and still get pretty low, should. Will dump the rear and head to the tyre shop.
Hospital bill was $326. There is still plenty of healing to to done as I couldn't come at the quote to blast and polish them at $300 per rim. They won't fit in my cheap blasting cabinet so I'm going to be making a mess in the front yard again.
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Finally got trims painted with dye im happy with. Got about 800ml paint and same in thinners left over if anyone needs it. Gnome blue was the original colour, which my trimmer did a pretty good job of matching for the seat. The dye was then matched to the new vinyl.
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Errol62 wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:13 pmThe offset adjustment surgery gives me 10mm driver side and 5mm passenger side clearance from rim face to stock guard lip roughly.
How did they change offset - machining down the pad that touches the brake drum to shift wheels inboard?
Cheers,
Harv
327 Chev EK wagon, original EK ute for Number 1 Daughter, an FB sedan meth monster project and a BB/MD grey motored FED.
