Hero's Restoration

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Hero never made it's MOT..it broke down about 10mins into the journey. We had been making some progress at a top speed of 38mph, when it suddenly lost power and the radiator started to boil. The AA were called out and diagnosed a failed cylinder head gasket (which it wasn't) and told me to park the vehicle up in a nearby roadside cafe from where it could be recovered later by a flat bed truck. It couldn't be towed because it's currently stuck in 4wd mode and so couldn't be lifted by the front wheels. Hero was taken to RJs in Sawtry later, who quickly concluded that one of the pistons had broken in the engine, and said there was no point doing any work on the engine to fix it. I've had other advice that says the engine could be dismantled and a new piston fitted, but I'm not sure how practical such an undertaking would be. This leaves me in a situation of either scrapping the Landy or getting another engine, and at the moment I'm not sure which route to go. If I scrap it I really have to break the vehicle up to get some money back, but then I'd feel all my time was wasted. RJs are currently going to try to find me another engine, but aren't hopeful, and my own calls have not yielded anything. As the situation stands the vehicle will be brought back home on Friday and then I will decide whether to start taking it to bits.

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