Slow progress - but it is progress!

I've cleaned and cleaned - can't find any marks and they still weigh the same!

The cleaning did highlight some suspicious wear marks on the little end bearings - so I'm off to the machine shop tomorrow to see if they've got one of those Gucci micrometers that can measure an internal bearing dimension. There are also some nasty marks on the shank of number 5 conrod - that was the only conrod and piston assembly that was peened / staked together (evidence of yet more fiddling in the past)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!