Postby daxmatt » Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:36 pm
When I bought mine ,the price seemed to be cheaper than going rate,as it were.The car had been on piston heads for about a month. I was looking around the car I noticed lots of fresh gasket sealer around the sump,he said spent lots of time trying to stop oil leaks,which I believed,as I had owned a Cosworth years ago.
I asked a while later after a bit of oh and ar'ing,was he aware of anything wrong with the car,to which he replied ,does not like sitting in traffic.so I just assumed the engine starts getting warm,as again I new this could be the case due to the small rad which was in it.Anyway I bought the car.A few weeks past and one fine day was sitting in traffic.The tappets started rattling really bad,sounded like they were going dry.when I arrived home I removed the sump(well maybe not that night),to look at the oil pump.all looked fine.took the pump and strainer pipe indoors to clean,when I noticed the pipe to the strainer was damaged and would have been sucking in air,only a very small amount,but just enough over a period of 10 minutes or so,was enough to drop the oil pressure down and lose pressure on the head.put all back together and was fine.but a few months later the real damage came to light.the dreaded big ends.
Along came a full rebuild.
Which cost me half of the price of the car.