So a little more progress the head is almost ready to be rebuilt this is being sent to and engineer to complete so it was time to take the block out and strip it down
we took the block out 1st then the prop and gearbox these cars are soooooooo easy to work on its a pleasure
the gearbox will be rebuilt in good time
quick photo of the underside this will all be shot blast and painted once the spit arrives
time to strip the block down
it took a little bit of effort to remove the sump
and once we had i found a nasty suprise a bent con rod as you can see on the left
dad was pretty happy at this find as it now means new uprated rods and pistons haha any excuse
no other damage big ends are good the crank will be checked and reground if needed buy our engineering guy anyway im suprised it ran as well as it did with the rod so bent