Just finnished stripping down the engine. Firstly I was quite supprised to find under piston oil squirters. Didn't think these were OE. Secondly how badly fooked the bottom end is lol.

We split the 2 block halves appart and were left with the crank and rods. 3 of which seemed normal and the fourth.. Well lets just say it was a little sloppy lol, there must have been 5mm of travel.

After taking the rods off of the crank we descovered that the 2 external rods were ok, bar scoring from the swarf that was circulating and the two internal 2+3 were shocking to say the least. One of which the bearing was worn down to the copper layer and the other with 5mm of travel had no bearing at all. It had totally disintegrated and what was left had fused itself to the crank.

I have just gotten back from the engineers and have decided that it is necessary to have a re-bore. So will be going for a +.5 overbore. This is due to verticle scoring down a couple of the bores. However bore wear isn't that drastic, varying between 1/2thou and 1thou. They also measured the crank and the journal that ate the bearing was 3/4mm smaller!!

Pics to follow!