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Thanks alot Graeme :) To my suprise it is even quieter on the move, I took the Rover to work yestarday and driving home doing about 100-110 km/h, 62-68 mph on the higway I could not hear the engine, only wind and some tire nois. I almost thought it had cut out and died for a moment... The nex...

Thank you :) I acctualy hade the same concern regardig the lack of oil to the puchrods, but the is a oil passage through the rocker to the top of the pushrod and that one still works sending fresh oil to the pushrod so I think the pusrods will be fine. And the is still some oil (about 1/3 the...

Hello! I can strongly recommend "How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines" by Des Hammill. Contains almost everyting you need to know about getting the most out of your Rover V8. Cost around 50-60 USD. /Stefan

And they are all done! :D After spending three days in bed after my now former desntist screwd up I was finally abel to complete both rocker shaft assemblies yesterday and I must say there is qute the difference. The rocker are almost dead silent and the engine seems to run a bit smoother as...

New update! One of the rocker shaft assemblies is now complete and the other one only needs the rockers drilled to 22.980 mm and the bronze bushings presed in and it will be ready too. The car also passed its MOT or "besiktiningen" as it it called here in Sweden last monday :) Regarding...

Hello! Does anyone know the bore diameter on the master brake cylinder on a 1970 3500? It is a singel line system. Regards /Stefan

Hello Mick. Any luck with the multi meter? /Stefan

Hello John. A very rough estimate, using cheep aftermarket rockers, will put the price for 16 rockers with bronze bushings, 8 rocker shaft pedestals and 2 rocker shafts somewhere between 350 to 450 USD But before I sell any parts to anyone I neet to properly road test the new parts. At least...

Hello Clive. Both shaft and rocker are brand new, not steel rockers but aluminum. It is possible that Reel steels rockers are better, I bought my from rilmmerbros and the quality leaves something to be desired. The main problem is that the shaft, is realy not hard enough, it is some softer...

Thank you, I work as a CNC technician/operator at a small mechanical workshop and is fortune enough to have access to both 3 and 5-axis CNC mills and both manual and 3-axis CNC lathes so things that is imposible to manufacture in ones own garage is quite easy for me to do at work. I actullay...

Hello GRTV8 Well, the new bronze bushing don´t need a lot of oil and I think that oil could be used somwere else, like the main bearings. Also regardig to Des Hammill´s book "how to power tune Rover V8 engines" the whole rocker assambly is over lubicated and only a small reduction in oil to...

Have you checkt how much power the ignition is getting? I hade some missfiring and a unwillingness to rev and after a lot!!! A LOT!!! of searching i found that the cable from the ignition lock only feed the coil whit 4-5 volts which was enough to get a weak spark but not enough to get the engine...

Thanks Harvey. Yes I noticed that as well, it seems like almos everyone have the same low quality rocker shaft for sale. I found two NOS Land Rover shafts but they were £300 a pice. Noise rocker arms makes my skinn cralw, specially on a recently rebuilt engine so I felt that it was beter to do...

Hello! When I rebuilt my engine last winter I was quite suprised about the non-ideal construction of the whole rocker assambly. The idea of having cast aluminum rockers rubbig against the Steel shaft is as many of you probably already know no good at all. Probably very cheep to manufacture but...

Hello Rudiger. Very nice picture! Must be form before I owned the car. Diffrent tires for example. Fun to see old pictures of ones car.

Hello Rudiger.

Hello Rudiger!

Well thank you! You might like this picture even better, a Rover in the sunset whit a cold beer in the foreground.

The engine pulls well from about 1800 rpm and realy comes to life above 3000 rpm. The only problem i have is when I drive at speeds below 80 km/h in fourt gear (I have a zf4hp22 transmission) and accelerates slowly, not enough to activate the kick-down, then the engine feel a bit unresponsive...

Thank you Mr Task. Acctualy it is the cheepest Edelbrock airfilter from the local Us car parts store, and I done nothing to it, it just happens to be black and fit the engine compartment very well. I also painted the inlet manifold and valve covers black which probably gives the whole engine...

Thank you. Great to be here :) Well the heater is coming out somtime soon, the bearings in the heater motor sounds quite bad and needs replacing, so the plan is to give the whole heate/fan unit some service at the same time.

And a picture of the engine (note the very professional use of duct tape on the "custom" expansion tank) and from januari when I had to take the car out of winter hybernation for a few days. Can tell you that Rover dosent make the best heaters...

Both pictures are from the summer of 2014 but the car still looks the same.

Thanks! Yes, the information one can find here is somtimes quite overwhelmig. Will upload a few at once!

Hello! After just browsing the forum for a few years I finally decided to join. Been a proud owner of a 1970 3500 P6 for almost two years now, during that time I have rebulit the engine and swapt the transmission for a zf. As most old cars it is a "never ending prodject" and next is to have...