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Piglet's Rebuild Of His Busted Tomei 2.8


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I used that shell oil you get in the red container...the one you see at servo's all the time - for my run in. ~$40bucks for 10L, you can't really go wrong.

Diesel oil would be fine, but the extra detergents wouldn't really be doing anything as the engine should already be sqeaky clean!!!!

Keen to see the results for this (re)build!

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Few things to do my ass.

Lol. I was at unigroup and saw what you brought there!!!!

PS: your front cam cover looks great!! :D

Haha. a lot of the things on the list is small stuff. I had to list them otherwise Tyson would forget!!

Yeah it turned out well. Very happy with it :D

Where is yours upto?

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Penrite HPR30. It's loaded with the most zinc of any oil on the market, making it perfect for run-in of camshafts/bottom end etc.

That's what I've just put in mine!

Penrite HPR30

zinc - 0.11%

I just put this in ....Why wouldn't you use this ?

Penrite Running In Oil 15/40

zinc - 0.161%

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Haha. a lot of the things on the list is small stuff. I had to list them otherwise Tyson would forget!!

Yeah it turned out well. Very happy with it :D

Where is yours upto?

I was pulling front diffs apart today... Bottom end is also ready for assembly.

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Penrite HPR30

zinc - 0.11%

I just put this in ....Why wouldn't you use this ?

Penrite Running In Oil 15/40

zinc - 0.161%

I think that is what I ran, pen rite run in oil. Your engine builder should guide you on what oil to use for run in
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Look at a radiator filter while your getting it ready, after my rebuild it caught a fair bit or sealants and other crap, even after the chemical clean it still collects bits of crud that would have other wise gone through the water pump and maybe got stuck in the radiator.

TEFBA Radiator / Cooling system Filters

Like dis > http://www.ebay.com....=item20bddab6b4

Disclaimer: The RB30 that went into my boat was probably 30 yrs old and no matter how much cleaning you get done it will not remove all the old broken down rusty crap that has had that time to build up inside its cooling system, which it seems, is quite alot.

P.S. Numbers Farkern

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Look at a radiator filter while your getting it ready, after my rebuild it caught a fair bit or sealants and other crap, even after the chemical clean it still collects bits of crud that would have other wise gone through the water pump and maybe got stuck in the radiator.

TEFBA Radiator / Cooling system Filters

Like dis > http://www.ebay.com....=item20bddab6b4

I have one mate. I can't get the bloody thing open haha.

Going out tomorrow to see what the latest is. w00!

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engine036.jpg

Here is something interesting

Here I was stressing about valve to piston clearence with the 1.5mm OS valves. Now with a 0.9 mm head gasket (smallest I could find), squish of 29 thou and cams with over 10.8 mm of lift the clearence on the intake was 2.2 mm and OVER 3 mm on the exhaust. I could have not relieved them :( So much for Tomei's "Over 10.8 mm relieve the pistons" GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Hi Piggaz,

just curious what your cam centerlines, lift and duration were set at for this

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OK. I was out there today, all coming along. New oil cooler core and lines were going in. I changed the core because the old one would have been full of N1 oil pump gears!

I suspect startup and run in is Monday/Tuesday. I have some pics that I took today so i'll throw them up soon.

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