Well my Saff had been making some nasty rattling noises from cold as of late last year, and with 95k on the clock, I think it's time for a rebuild.

My first thoughts were to have the car off the road for 3-6 weeks to have the rebuild done by myself, but then I had second thoughts as I didn't want to be rushed.

Therefore I bought a fully rebuilt engine from Lee R who uses this forum!

Here are pics from when I changed my engine for Lee's old one:









Old engine coming out:



New engine going in:





I started this on a Saturday morning, and had it up and running by the next day, so by Sunday lunchtime.

A friend of mine text me about 1 or 2ish and said 'hi hows it going? got it up and running yet? lol'

After that sarky text I had the pleasure of texting him back with 'yes mate just been running for the last 5 mins!'


So this weekend I've been stripping down the old engine:





We had to lift it onto the engine stand, which was a lot harder than it looks in the pictures!!

Finally we managed it:





We then started stripping it down:

Got the head off!







As we'd been told, the top end had all been fully rebuilt!


Then the block:





Started taking bits off and stripping it, and before you know you've turned it upside down and the sump is off!





Undone all of the big ends:



Got the pistons out:



Then the crank:



And once we'd finished:





After inspection as we went along we found that oil had been burning past the pistons, and the #4 big end shell was down to the bronze!

The crank is being sent off wednesday for a regrind/polish!


There will no more updates for a few weeks as the block is being sent off early next week for a rebore!


Thanks for reading it, I will update when I get more info/pics, I am also working long shifts in the next few weeks too, but I will try!


Cheers,

Charlie