Originally Posted by
nickywarwick
it shud be mate, cylnder lines should be smooth & shiney, if there scratched in anyway it has picked up. scores will be straigh up & down. look for deformation on the head, (put it on a flat surface & look for gaps underneath). try turning it over by hand when the head is off & check all 4 bores.
if you can take an engine out you shud be capable of rebulding 1, the damage on this engine should be fairly obvius.
the hardest part mo is puttng the engnes back in propely & tidy.
thanks for the advice. just home from taking the engine out, fairly easy and straightforward. will tidy up car and get it rolling to send it away to his home tomorrow and then will start looking into the engine.
also found the possible cause as to why the oil pressure light did not work. connected to the oil pressure switch under the inlet manifold was a soild brown wire with an 8mm hole crimp connection. but floating in mid air connected to nothing very near this was a brown/green wire with the same crimp connection on it which im sure is the ford oil pressure wire colours.
can anyone confirm or correct me about this?
thanks