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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5789  
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Turners are the “go to” engine people in my opinion.
https://www.turnerengineering.co.uk/lfl500...2x20634869 https://www.turnerengineering.co.uk/lft500...2x20634874 |
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14th Mar 2023 7:51am |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 1118  
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This sounds a little odd. Why would you fit oversized rings only, if there is such a thing. Oversized pistons (with the associated boring, honing etc) fair enough, but you don't fit oversized rings on their own.
Also valves 'looking kinda strange' is not really a suitable technical term to warrant replacement. If you are going to change all the valves you basically doing a complete top end overhaul. It might be more prudent to exchange for an overhauled head by a reputable vendor (such as Turner) who checks for cracks and known issues etc. What's up with the engine that requires all this work? Must be severely worn out. How many miles and what were the failure symptoms? From what I understand the bottom end of the 10p and 15p engines are identical. The changes are in the head, emission and ECU (EGR, air temp sensor etc), but anyone please correct me if I am wrong. |
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14th Mar 2023 9:03am |
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| doruk1981 Member Since: 15 Aug 2022 Location: Aargau Posts: 100  
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I see your point. The engine shop that I commissioned is quite famous in Switzerland (at least in the German speaking area) and is constantly rebuilding all sorts of engines. He did inspect the head and said all good, no cracks whatsoever. Therefore all good.
The engine itself had some 185k km on the odometer, the wear and tear was quite ok. in the end the engine is 20+ years old. The crankshaft etc are all good and just need some minor polishing. Yesterday he measured everything and noted that the pistons need to be oversized, and he did not like how the valves looked like and would recommend to do them as well given that I'm doing a full rebuild. My initial plan was just to replace all the gaskets and clean it up. but as I do want it to be reliable for the foreseeable future, I figured it makes sense to take some more money into my hands and get it done properly. Would be an annoying thing to have to take the engine out again later due some short cuts taken. Piston wise, i'll confirm with him today if we need "LFL500030 020 Piston Assy TD5" from turner engineering and place the order then. (thank you Landy Andy for the pointer to that shop. Lots of goodness there to order) Td5 110 Station |
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14th Mar 2023 9:49am |
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| NickMc Member Since: 01 Oct 2014 Location: Norn Iron Posts: 1656  
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Yes think turners are the only ones (used to be anyway) that so the oversized pistons. They are one of the best to deal with and very helpful.
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