the water was over the machanics head, and hes an easy 6 foot, all drained now. i think it is all still there, but the shell was outside the last time i saw it, i actually had another panelvan there aswell, which did have a really decent 4k in it.

 

ahwell

Fark, another victim of the flood, sad to hear dude. Hope its salvageable mate.

the motors stil should be fine? drop the oil remove the spark plugs and crank it till the water comes out. new oil and petrol

 

should start up?

Flood water though, so I bet it'll have alot of sediment in the motor. Probably worth pulling it down and chemicially cleaning the crap out of it.

f@$k no, my mower runs good and it was 3m under :P

Youd be amazed how resilient the thing will be if it wasnt running when it entered the water. Fresh fluids and a heck of a clean and she will be ok.

 

I got a nice pressure washer here just itching to clean up some flood crud if that helps...

I drowned my KE55 at least half a dozen times in various creeks and mud holes back in the day... Flush it out, fire it up, all good :D

we can't fire the motor, its been waiting on a base tune for i dunno, 18 months...or more

 

I'm gonna ring mick tomorrow and try head out there, collect the motor, pull it all apart, clean it and wd40/oil the shit out of all of it and hopefully the crank and cams are good, the rest I'm not that worried about...

 

just don't want it to rust, the 4k i should be able to clean out in the van i have out there will hopefully clean up and run alright :)

ok, update time.

 

its been too long between updates.

 

theres too much to tell.

 

theres also pictures, but they will have to wait :P

 

engine has been stripped.

 

measured up as 77mm pistons and 81mm stroke.

 

crank is undamagaed from flood water, assembly lube from when i put it back together 2 or 3 years ago after getting crank crack tested saved the day on that one.

 

cams that were in the motor are not too bad, will linish up alright.

 

the 272* hks cams i bought seperately, i discovered sitting in the car, which has been outside in the elements for about a year. but amazingly i had them on the lathe last night, and any pitting under the surface rust is very slight.

 

took all the cams back to the mechanic this arvo and he will get them blasted tomorrow and then will linish them for me.

 

i also opened the gearbox and cleaned the water out of that, same with the diff.

 

have taken them both to diff and gearbox industries, i think thats what theyre called, blokes called steve, absolute top guy, no bullshit and wont do the job if he doesnt think it will work. hides nothing from me.

 

he has rebuilt the box, and the diff he has reset the lsd as before i de-rego'd the car it had become super unpredictable, when before it was always sideways, never one wheeling. so he had a look at that, and said it might of had 5lb on it when he opened, has got it at around 160-170 now, and said it should be pretty f@$kin tight. couldnt say how long it will stay like that, as the lsd design isnt that great, but not that uncommon. he agreed the bearings were still good, as theyd been done in the 4K i had the car on the road, just the pinion bearing was a bit shitty, looked like something had gone through it, and thats exactly what id thought from listening that the pinion bearings needed doing and the rest were good, so a rebuilt box and diff will be ready soon.

 

on the actual car front, new seatbelts have gone in.

inside has been put back together.

 

have spoken to qld transport about what i need to do for rego, found a work shop to do the LO1 blue plate. which is the ADR equivant sorta thing, saying it does comply to the standards of the year of manufacture for a australian complied car.

 

so i need to change all the headlights, cause apparently they dip to the left or the right, and obvious these will be the wrong way. so ill swap all the lights, sealed beam, so just buy new ones off the shelf.

 

swap parker lights to clear rather than amber.

 

and then take it down and see what happens from there.

 

once i get my car trailer.

 

which almost needs a thread to itself :glare:

 

questions? :P

I'm not gonna do the 'worthless without pics' thing, you know it is.

tomorrow i wil get the pics up, maybe...

theres really not much to show lol

Yeah but 2 doors are good to look at anyway :blush:

cool, on a whole sounds like things are going well after the submersion setback, good to hear, keep the updates coming. :yes:

Good to hear that the cams are ok, was much more said about them?

nah, not really much said

 

still stands to his guns saying you moved the car out. not my problem at the end of the day, the buck stops with him. when i saw the car once and it was uncovered he said the cover had blown off and was going to recover it, but that never happened. so it was his carelessness really. but we all do silly things when we are busy etc, so I'm not gonna hold a grudge. so long as the cams come up good.

 

and the flood was almost a blessing. i now have the cars home, and i can run the project and make shit happen, its more legwork for me, but i don't mind, and i get to do most of the assembly, basically how it all started then deviated away once the car got to the workshop and nothing happened, not this time though. its getting done right, and on my timeframe.

 

the heavens above permitting that is, and theyre not helping i tell ya :lolcry: