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hi people thought i would start a diary on the rebuild we have owned the wagon for just over a year flew down to Sydney had a look went for a drive then we drove back to Brisbane .
drove well only a faulty oil sensor on the way home.
since then we have driven the car to Canberra for our Sons wedding and back again been around lakeside for some happy laps and then the horror of traveling to the Nats is were it all went terrible wrong travelling up the highway oil light came on and motor seized.
so we have decided to fully strip down the wagon and restore her back to it's formal glory.

Started striping all trims and surprised on how easy everthing was coming off.

Looks neat, why the reduild? Rust?

Trev while the motors out couldn't help myself best time to do it . I just wanted to make sure the gremlins haven't got to her

Looking forward to following this one ......

couple of pics broken down on the way to Hervey Bay Nats

stripped motor down to find two very dry connector caps unfortunately bearings sitting at 30 thou and piston 60thou stamped on pistons, so stripped down a j Block which was looking way better so off to engine builder for a better look .
at time of typing this unsure if I am going to go the mild grey . was going to bolt the hydra backup behind it ( which I have no problems with the hydra) but since been looking at trimatic so went out and bought a HZ 1 tonner as a donor now thinking should I also bolt the 202 in as well ?I have a HR frontend lying in the shed but reading all the post regarding correct setup a little confused it has come out of a donor FB and tyres are really flogged out on sides which tells me it was never setup properly so may approach that as I go .
the plan was a mild grey same as I had done for my sons car except bolting on a Thomas with twin su's . now really unsure on which way to go.

really happy with everything atm all coming apart so easy lets hope it's like that putting it back together inside the panels are really clean

really happy with everything atm all coming apart so easy lets hope it's like that putting it back together

Like a big meccano set Putting it back together is OK just don't rush it.

parisian62 wrote:

really happy with everything atm all coming apart so easy lets hope it's like that putting it back together

Like a big meccano set Putting it back together is OK just don't rush it.

Yep everthing bagged ,marked and pics taken

windscreen out and was expecting to see some horror but all good bit of surface rust on lip but nothing to worry about. YET.

Fishy was there an oil supply problem with the engine?

does anyone know if these seals are in the full rubber kits? noticed also there is a gasket between guard and body as well.

Craig Allardyce wrote:Fishy was there an oil supply problem with the engine?

Craig i don't believe so when i took it to the engine builder his thoughts were at some stage oil must of been low at some point of the engines lifetime , as all bearings showed a fair bit of wear sump was pretty clear of sludge thinking that maybe one of the journals had blocked up .but with saying that oil pump is been checked for wear as well.
was going through your build and considering fitting a full flow kit for the oil system if i keep the grey in it did you have to put any restrictors in your oil return Craig?

at last iv'e fond some rust .well thats not too bad .