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Best Engine you have owned/worked on?
Silvery Thing:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 11, 2008, 15:50:31 ---For ease of working on, the Ford Crossflow, as fitted to my old Escort. 900c, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.6 though these could be bored out to 1760cc.
Only need a few spanners, part were always cheap and there's not much to go wrong with them. I blew one up driving to Hull and I only really noticed when I dropped below 70 when it wouldn't accelerate again, it had dropped onto 2 cylinders. Still got me to work though :)
I could swap an engine on my own in about 4 hours too.
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I agree.... I always used to work on my earliest cars (all Fords) from the 60's and 70's. A few spanners, sockets if we were rich, and a screwdriver could generally fix most things :)
I once owned a 2.3 V6 Ford and although easy to work on the water pump was a design disaster, stupid impellar shaft was under so much tension that water pumps tended not to last too long :cry:
richo:
Don't laugh but i cut my teeth on bedford cf engines.Use to remember that they where a doodle to work with[long time ago now]
waveydavey:
B&W 58/64
SWEETY:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 11, 2008, 15:50:31 ---For ease of working on, the Ford Crossflow, as fitted to my old Escort. 900c, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.6 though these could be bored out to 1760cc.
Only need a few spanners, part were always cheap and there's not much to go wrong with them. I blew one up driving to Hull and I only really noticed when I dropped below 70 when it wouldn't accelerate again, it had dropped onto 2 cylinders. Still got me to work though :)
I could swap an engine on my own in about 4 hours too.
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I will second that they were bomb proof the Ford Pinto is also a fav of mine dead easy to work on & you could stap the timimg belts all day long & the egine was fine :grin: :grin: :grin: Did kill a pinto once but it had done 180K & I had tuned it to the max & then stuck Nos into the mix :roll: at 74mph in second gear number 2 con rod gave up & popped the piston through the bonnet of my capri :shock: :'( :'(
bilge rat:
me old sierra, 1.8 cvh. had 3 of them but me best 110,000 mile before the head gasket went. did that sold with about 120.000 on the clock was spotless. alan......
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