First post!
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Hello everyone
New on the forum although I think I was a member along time ago.
I have owned this 1991 H reg whitey since 1996. Just dragged it out of storage .
Problems started in 1998 with overheating which turned out to be a pinhole leak on the inlet manifold. Naturally I removed the manifold and replaced the thin hosetails with industrial ones. On refitting one of the manifold studs broke so was a head off job. Took head off and put all new studs in , renewed stem seals ,lapped valves in . Give the head a good clean and polished combustion chambers . Was going to skim head but when clocked up on milling machine found it was fine.
Fitted carb rebuild kit and put it all back together with a gt tuning head gasket and head bolts.
Low and behold I still had combustion gasses in water grrrr. So into storage it went.
I could bore you with the storage nightmares but that would take all day to tell.
Main thing is she's back and I'm slowly working on rebuilding her. This ones deffo a she lol as she was ok atfirst and then got very tempremental haha.
Engine is in my garage stripped and being cleaned for paint.
Luckily i happened to bump into Sparkie from here who pointed me in the right direction for new engine internals. Big Ty Sparkie (top guy)
Limited funds means this may take a while but I'm determined to get my 5 back to its former glory.
Going to soak up as much info as I can from forum now and find my way around.
Nice to meet you all
Regards NRG aka Nigel.
