locotracteur351

Haha, no need for apology, I've known its on the way out for a long time! I've been jangling around for months . . . people give me funny looks when I put my foot down and its like someone playing kettle drums! I promise I'm changing my engine next week, I promise! At least the new one only has end float problems, the bearings are all like new, and oversize, looks like its been rebuilt at some point.

I haven't measured whet end float I have on the engine in the car at the moment, but I think it will be quite a lot, when its on tickover and I put my foot on the clutch, it does sound like somebody dropping a toolbox. I also have very very low oil pressure, about 25psi at sixty in top gear and up to 5psi at hot tickover, infact at times the warning light flickers, but I have no vibration!

I started dismantling my spare engine today, its number is GE60722HE so thats a 1296cc engine with an 8.5:1 compression ratio I think? The big ends seem very good, and once cleaned and painted with new gaskets the engine seems to be a good one. Having said this, the thrust washers at the back of the engine are almost down to the steel, they are 0.180" thick and there is 0.012" of end float because of this. My question is how thick are standard thrust washers and will simply replacing the used ones for standard size ones reduce the end float to the recommended (or less). I think I found that it should be within 0.004-0.006", does that sound right? If I need to get oversize ones, I would rather that someone could advise me rather than me having to buy many sets just to try them! Thank you in advance Jagger