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Hi, my friend bought a VY L36 for $200 with a blown head gasket on the odd bank of cylinders , cylinder 5 has some minor rust while cylinder 1 has excessive rust which is rough and can be felt if you ran your fingers down the bores.
I have stripped the engine down to its just a block without the heads or anything else.
Below i have uploaded 4 photos to give you some indication to what I'm on about.
The bloke tried to use sand paper to try and remove the rust off the walls till i told him not to .. He also moved the piston skirt up above the rusted area a few times, just wondering what damage this will do to the walls and the rings ?
Also just wondering without having to remove the pistons and hone the block what's the best way to go about removing the rust ? He refuses to get the cylinders honed because of it being a ' Low Kilometer ' Engine.
I will keep you's updated on how the build goes, we're planning on putting a cam in int and making it a super high comp engine with 40 thou taken off each head.
Any opinions what so ever would be much appreciated, thanks !
When we removed the heads these bores were full of water , as you can see it doesn't appear to mixing oil with the water but the engine has 100% been cooked big time for the water to turn to rust as such, the whole cooling system was like this. :idea:
I have stripped the engine down to its just a block without the heads or anything else.
Below i have uploaded 4 photos to give you some indication to what I'm on about.
The bloke tried to use sand paper to try and remove the rust off the walls till i told him not to .. He also moved the piston skirt up above the rusted area a few times, just wondering what damage this will do to the walls and the rings ?
Also just wondering without having to remove the pistons and hone the block what's the best way to go about removing the rust ? He refuses to get the cylinders honed because of it being a ' Low Kilometer ' Engine.
I will keep you's updated on how the build goes, we're planning on putting a cam in int and making it a super high comp engine with 40 thou taken off each head.
Any opinions what so ever would be much appreciated, thanks !
When we removed the heads these bores were full of water , as you can see it doesn't appear to mixing oil with the water but the engine has 100% been cooked big time for the water to turn to rust as such, the whole cooling system was like this. :idea:
