Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

Seem to have more than my fair share of them taking up residence in my truck at the moment.
My day off on Wednesday, so I'll get a new throttle cable from Real Steel on Tuesday afternoon, then lift off the carb/inlet manifold, pull the valley gasket & see what we can see.
I've been to the Brooklands Motor Museum in Surrey today. At the end of the day I reversed my little Fiesta out of a parking space & straight into a passing Range Rover. Oh joy. Not having a good couple of weeks at the moment!

[The North]

Siezed hydraulic lifter?

+1 solution robes lifters.  I dont know anything about rover v8s but my mate used them in TR7s years ago and had that happen, fitted robes lifters never had another problem. 

[spanners]

just a thought,,, but what oil are you using ?

[NeilG]

Might be worth checking valve springs as well.Had one go on my pop and the push rod jumped out 

[Manky Monkey]

What happened to your valve spring Neil? Snapped?
Halfords classic 20w50 Mike.
Not heard of Robes lifters & can't find any mention of them on t'net -?

A complete engine rebuild could run into thousands -which I definitely haven't got. Several people have advised against fully rebuilding the top end & leaving the bottom end, (surefire way to kill the bottom end apparently). A new cam will require a set of new lifters & probably new timing gear too, plus stripping down the whole front of the car to get at it.
The engine & box cost me 200 quid. Simplest, quickest option may be just to check/swap the lifters & rocker assemblies as necessary, drop in a spare pushrod & see what happens.
Depends what we find when I take the valley gasket off really.

[spanners]

robes, sound odd to me i,v used ,,rhodes,, but not ,robes,, 

[NeilG]

Yep Andy,had one snap.Luckily it stayed in place and another one just went weak.
Made hell of a racquet,thought the engine had blown.
I was driving down to the Victory Wheelers do at Thorney island and only had 3 miles to go.Got recovered home and had to do the journey all over again in the daily 
Did have some pics but they're on my old computer.

Typical i had a 3.9 rover sat in the garage,couldn't even give it away.Got fed up keep moving it so it went for scrap 2 weeks ago.
Not much help am i? 

[Manky Monkey]

No! 

[NeilG]

My dad is giving me a hand tomorrow to get the chevy back home and it was his mate that collected the scrap,took my old chevy engine and the rover.He took it back to his yard so since its you Andy i'll find out if he's still got it 

[The North]

robes, sound odd to me i,v used ,,rhodes,, but not ,robes,, 

That will be them, never saw owt in print just verbal and remember we are talking a jock here and he was most of his time drunk or near it too.  

[kapri]

Rhodes lifters are used to tame a wild cam , Andy needs MORE lift if anything after the amount of miles his has done !LOL

[cunningplan]

I'm with Kev here, Rhodes lifters bleed down at low revs to make a lumpy cam not so lumpy. When I was using a medium cam in my old ford engine I asked about fitting these, I was told it would not work.

[Manky Monkey]

I chatted to Derek the diner truck owner this morning. He thought one of the Surrey Street Rodders had a spare, running Rover motor. Long term it probably makes sense to swap my "tired" one for a better one, but for now I just want to drive the damn thing, (& iron out all the other faults that are bound to crop up). 

[Mr_G]

Progressing nicely I see, Nice one Andy! Who is the Perdy lady in the Pop?

Cheers G.

[Manky Monkey]

Hello stranger.  That's me. Oh. No it isn't.
Not a new lady friend. She was a photographic model working with a mate of mine at the Hayling Island run last weekend. He asked if they could use my truck as a background for some photos.