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[Brookesy]

Gday mate,

Cant be bothered reading the whole thread as i am to tired it almost 2 am over here. The photo is of the crankcase ventilation. Not sure if anybody as mentioned it already.

Anyways have a read through this. It was written by one of australias premier mini specialists and has alot of good info on how to make a small bore quick. He mainly covers the 1098 but they are basically the same as a 998 apart from crank.
http://www.minimania...81/ArticleV.cfm

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Steve

Ventalation you say... is it needed? im pretty sure my engine in the mini at the moment doesnt have one.. :S and cheers for the link very helpful!

In terms of the pulley bolt its beeing a right little geet! Manged to bend a metal bar so far its on that tight! If it doesnt work its going to have to be the gearbox off and jam the crank i think :S Good times back to try i go!

Edited by Brookesy, 20 November 2011 - 06:00 PM.

[firefox]

Gday mate,

Cant be bothered reading the whole thread as i am to tired it almost 2 am over here. The photo is of the crankcase ventilation. Not sure if anybody as mentioned it already.

Anyways have a read through this. It was written by one of australias premier mini specialists and has alot of good info on how to make a small bore quick. He mainly covers the 1098 but they are basically the same as a 998 apart from crank.
http://www.minimania...81/ArticleV.cfm

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Steve

Ventalation you say... is it needed? im pretty sure my engine in the mini at the moment doesnt have one.. :S and cheers for the link very helpful!

In terms of the pulley bolt its beeing a right little geet! Manged to bend a metal bar so far its on that tight! If it doesnt work its going to have to be the gearbox off and jam the crank i think :S Good times back to try i go!

Have you soaked it penatrating fluid overnight, try a little heat with a blow lamp, you need a bigger hammer

Edited by firefox, 20 November 2011 - 06:42 PM.

[Brookesy]

Diiiid it! Boom! Dad helped. Removed the block. Tried wood on crank but it snapped so carefully used a crowbar to jam it. And after some uber grunting it gave! Will get some pics up later I need some food wool!

[Brookesy]

Right after trying to get stuff done before/ after and during work finally managed to get the engine all stripped down. Also arrived home to find ive missed the delivery of my new head so that will arrive wednesday now woop Pretty nakered so just going to quickly chuck some pics up and a little of how its going.

Are these the oil plugs i have to drill out by the way? Saw in anotehr post andyminimad was mentioning about it so you can clean the block properly.


This is how tight the pulley bolt was


The inards


Numero Uno piston has some damage to the surface. As said before was looking into reboring so will be heading the direction of new pistons anyway i think.

Bearing sleeve also seems to have some wear.


Bit of scuffing like this on all 4 pistons. Is this the norm?


Crank


Cam


All ready for cleaning

Edited by Brookesy, 21 November 2011 - 11:03 PM.

[Brookesy]

Next step is to get it all cleaned up and checked properly, get the bores and pistons measured along with the head, work out the CR i will need e.t.c and then look at getting it machined and what new items i need

[firefox]

Next step is to get it all cleaned up and checked properly, get the bores and pistons measured along with the head, work out the CR i will need e.t.c and then look at getting it machined and what new items i need

I hope you have numberd all the main caps and piston journels so you know what goes where on the crank
you are doing well bud pity one of the pistons was damaged

Edited by firefox, 21 November 2011 - 11:46 PM.

[Brookesy]

Yep that's what the cable ties are for so I know where they go learnt that from your topic

[firefox]

Yep that's what the cable ties are for so I know where they go learnt that from your topic

super dont make the misstake i made i marked the bottoms and not the con rods, just a tip the auto shop that did mine popped the edge with a centre punch . .. ... ....

No they are core plugs the oilway plugs are about 1/2'' in diamater at each end of the block check my photo's i have a photo of them

the core plugs just whack a flat screwdriver through and lever them out, the oil gallery plugs i drilled a small hole in the middle put a corse screw it and pulled them out with a claw hammer one got stuck so i tapped a small flat screwdriver down the side of it and folded it in this one had a bigger hole in the middle though

Edited by firefox, 22 November 2011 - 12:13 AM.

[firefox]

I refitted them with a smere of araldite around them

[Brookesy]

Excellent found the picture and will get on that tommorow when i start cleaning it all out

New head arrived today while i was at work.


All lookes good no obvios cracks or wear. Will find out properly once its had a good clean and measure up, day off tommorow so that most my plans for the day.

Get Head and Block cleaned up,
Check for damage,
Measure up and order new valves. (i take it there are a ceratin type and once measured ill know what to get?)
Try and work out the old C:R

[firefox]

What is the head off bud, are you going to put unleaded seats in it, i could murder a curry

[Brookesy]

Not sure, I had the piece if paper from what it was off. God knows where I put it But yeah its going to get unleaded seats. Just spent today cleaning and looking for engineer ships ringing slarkspeed tommorow slowly getting me head round it all!

Haha will pm you tonight when get on my laptop

[firefox]

pick a good one bud offer them cash i did and saved a few quid, are getting it chemicly cleaned

[Brookesy]

Going to pressure wash it tommorow and will see how it turns out. Trying not too spend too much money where I can save it. The inside has quite a bit of surface rust but the porting e.t.c should sort that...

[Brookesy]

Got the crank amongst other things cleaned up a bit today and found this......
Im not sure if its from before or if its happened in the engine but it looks like its just been roughly ground down.... any advice?


Cheers
Mike