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Sorry.. that was a little bit illiterate from my morning brainwaves. Cylinder 4 only had half a bearing left leaving huge amounts of play. The piston was traveling too far up the cylinder and making out with my valves, which luckily are unscathed. What F***S me is how 1 bearing out of 6 can...

Big end says 'Bon Voyage bitches' Wish I was that lucky!!! I foolishly only checked cyl 1 - 2 - 5 - 6 because of the positioning of the pistons. After removing the 1st cap, the bearing looked fine, but as cyl 3 & 4 weren't at TDC I could check them... and cylinder 4 half of 1 bearing left, and...

Okay so got the head off after many a beer and words no one should ever say in front of their mother.. piston #4 was in an intimate relationship with the valves. So, while the slapping was coming from the head the culprit was infact the big end letting go and letting the piston travel past...

and by disgusting I mean the crank couldn't continue with the amount of metal off it, some pieces were as big as 20mm in diameter. Will post a photo soon.

Okay, so not negligible - thank you! After clearing out the sump the amount of metal shards in there was absolutely disgusting - BUT when the 'mechanics' we took the car to originally they forgot to do up a pulley up and when we cranked it over the camshaft snapped into a million pieces, and I...

Sorry I didn't see the other two replies for some reason - the pump is definitely not the least of my worries if the oil pressure before and after a change was negligible at best. Big ends look healthy and were only replaced incl. pistons less that 30,000km. There is less than half a...

110% on the mark, frustration is getting the better of me. I needed that. Thanks for the laugh! Still chasing info on the oil pump /assembly. I can't seem to find any info, I've been searching all day in between work, next step will be back to repco for a workshop manual (which I really should...

Hi everyone.. can't say I'm exactly excited to be here - My mother and fathers 80s Series 1HD-T GXLs (Body 640xxx, Engine 100xxx) decided to go Kaput while I was taking it to the old workshop I did half of my apprenticeship in for a pink slip!!! :( Engine has had extremely low oil pressure for...