sorry bud havent been here for ages pre occupied.
the sump has been nick named the frankensump but ive fully sanded and polished it these days but only takes 1 4by run to ruin that lol other than that no i havent thought of marketing it didnt think it was that crash hot to tell you the truth.
since last posts the lux and me have had our fair share of lovers tiffs
i have totally destroyed the motor once the week after the last pics were posted and has had 2 sets of coil packs on it from burning out, just yesterday had a massive fuel issue wouldnt let me start it got a dodgy batch of fuel and me the missus and kids were halfway into our day trip of 4x4ing, other than that i took it to a 4x4 fundraiser here in fnq and kinda jumped it accidently and bananaed the front diff housing so its had a new one of them haha.
other than that its still not tuned still starts like a pig still chews fuel but just tonight i have wired in air temp sensor and steppermotor so my tuner can do his thing hopefully end of this week early next week.
now for pics
missing bits
looking at piston
slightly damaged head
slightly damaged cylinder nothin the tig wont fix
a trophy
halfwayish thru rebuild
and doin the masses of shims
engine had new rings,bearings, full set of valves, spare block decked cleaned and checked, spare head and other head cleaned and inspected,cranked linished and inspected etc etc, and new oil pump.
got it at got rates knowing some cummins mechanics got all that work done for 2g including parts and valves faces cut etc all i did is reassemble it.
took her to detailers the next week and got her tidied up
then took her down the creb track that weekend (google it, in north queensland epic track in the wet)
to get it filthy again lol
then i took it to the 4x4 fundraiser and bent it
then the very next weekend (new yrs 2012/13) took it camping again
also started to build a dog cage for it and will have another floorless one go behind it for camping etc also have start a 60L 316 stainless water tank for the tub and trying to figure out where to mount the second battery under tray somewhere, oh shes got a rear air locker in her now too so i can get myself further into the shit lol