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Engine seized on a 2.4 2nd Gen Surprise, Surprise!
Fellow surfers, I have been an avid surf owner for over 5 years now first surf was a 3rd gen dream which only had one minor hiccup in the four years I owned it. overheated due to cracked combustion chamber, so after I changed the head it again ran like a dream.......until I managed to drive it of a bridge after my trailer jacknifed, but thats another story.
So after wrangling with the insurance company I managed to get a £4k payout, this was last march, and at the time there were no decent 3rd gens for sale so I found a 2nd gen 3.0Td for sale in immaculate nick for £3K (see attachment, It's got a bit of bling!!!), I should have done a bit more homework, I had never owned a 2nd gen before so I didn't notice that it was a 2.4 until i compared some engine pics on the tinternet, The log book has 3.0 TD on it, more fool me!, anyway after a month of owning the supposed 3.0 the dreaded 2.4 decided to make steam, Oh F&$@%ng Happy Days, so off came the head (which is a complete pig compared to the 3rd gen) and found a lovely big crack between pots 3 and 4.
The top of the liner on No4 pot had about 3-4mm of errosion probably due to washing with the coolant getting in there, and the no 4 pot on the head almost completely eaten. I was a little concerned with the damage to the top of the liner, but I thought sod it and Bought a new head complete with cam, new cam belt gasket kit,head bolts etc, etc from roughtrax, fitted it and all was sweet apart from she seemed a bit lumpy for the first 30 secs on starting, so thinking the glo plugs might have been cooked I checked resistance on the circuit...all fine, so I put a new set in anyway, still lumpy.....so thinking I had messed up and put the cam belt on with a tooth mis-aligned, I took most of it apart again to check the timing....again it was fine. So nothing else i could think of, I simply lived with a lumpy start, probably a bad move.....
2 days ago,(10 months since head change) it decided to give up the ghost ......doing abouth 15 mph all dash lights on and engine stalled, oh dear!, I thought I'd try to turn the key just in case!......the starter clicked and that was it, so I am now thinking the worst, put her into neutral and towed her back up my road with the jcb. I whacked a bar and socket on the crank pulley and she aint going anywhere......
Any thoughts??????, piston, liner and another new head??
I would rather not give her to the crap yard, But don't really want to spend the Greek deficit to get her back on the road
So after wrangling with the insurance company I managed to get a £4k payout, this was last march, and at the time there were no decent 3rd gens for sale so I found a 2nd gen 3.0Td for sale in immaculate nick for £3K (see attachment, It's got a bit of bling!!!), I should have done a bit more homework, I had never owned a 2nd gen before so I didn't notice that it was a 2.4 until i compared some engine pics on the tinternet, The log book has 3.0 TD on it, more fool me!, anyway after a month of owning the supposed 3.0 the dreaded 2.4 decided to make steam, Oh F&$@%ng Happy Days, so off came the head (which is a complete pig compared to the 3rd gen) and found a lovely big crack between pots 3 and 4.
The top of the liner on No4 pot had about 3-4mm of errosion probably due to washing with the coolant getting in there, and the no 4 pot on the head almost completely eaten. I was a little concerned with the damage to the top of the liner, but I thought sod it and Bought a new head complete with cam, new cam belt gasket kit,head bolts etc, etc from roughtrax, fitted it and all was sweet apart from she seemed a bit lumpy for the first 30 secs on starting, so thinking the glo plugs might have been cooked I checked resistance on the circuit...all fine, so I put a new set in anyway, still lumpy.....so thinking I had messed up and put the cam belt on with a tooth mis-aligned, I took most of it apart again to check the timing....again it was fine. So nothing else i could think of, I simply lived with a lumpy start, probably a bad move.....
2 days ago,(10 months since head change) it decided to give up the ghost ......doing abouth 15 mph all dash lights on and engine stalled, oh dear!, I thought I'd try to turn the key just in case!......the starter clicked and that was it, so I am now thinking the worst, put her into neutral and towed her back up my road with the jcb. I whacked a bar and socket on the crank pulley and she aint going anywhere......
Any thoughts??????, piston, liner and another new head??
I would rather not give her to the crap yard, But don't really want to spend the Greek deficit to get her back on the road
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