As there seem to be a fair few of us suddenly with wierd knocks/rattles from the engines after rebuilds i thought id just post it in here

I stripped my bottom end down today to find no damage what so ever to the big end or crank
Decided to take the head off AGAIN(even tho i knew the head was fine) just so i could remove the pistons AGAIN

Anywho, the oil scraper(brand new piston rings etc) on #4 was missing a small chunk. I looked into the sump properly and found said chunk. So had to buy a whole new set of rings even tho this was the only buggered one, put new shells in anyway and ta-da no more knocks. Runs purrrfectly! Thank fook for that

So anyone whos gonna take the sump off to check and finds nothing, check the pistons too

 

you stripped it down, bought new rings and bearings.
and fitted it, AND had it running all in a day


fair play mate lol

hope its all plain sailing now!! (like RS's always are )

 

Yer mate did it in the day. Can do head gasket changes in like 10 minutes now