Doctor Hugocat
New Member
Hey everyone -
I'm a new forum member and have found a couple of possible project P6s available in my area. That's no common thing, as I'm in California. I owned a couple of P6s when I lived in the UK and am hoping one of these project could be right. Both are 2000TC with manual transmission.
There's something wrong with both of them of course One car has some body damage so I'm asking a question about that in the bodywork forum. The other car, the owner tells me, has a spun bearing. He says it happened when he over-revved it, but hasn't taken the motor apart to check it. So let's assume for a moment that it IS a spun bearing. Let's also assume that there's another cause: low oil, bad oil pump or blocked oilways.
I can order oversized bearings from the UK no problem: I can get an engineering shop here to grind the crank I guess if necessary. But what do you all think: is there likely to be substantial other damage? I don't yet know how quickly he switched off the motor when he heard whatever noise it was........
Any advice would be appreciated. He may be able to supply me with a spare motor which I would take automatically!
Thanks!!
I'm a new forum member and have found a couple of possible project P6s available in my area. That's no common thing, as I'm in California. I owned a couple of P6s when I lived in the UK and am hoping one of these project could be right. Both are 2000TC with manual transmission.
There's something wrong with both of them of course One car has some body damage so I'm asking a question about that in the bodywork forum. The other car, the owner tells me, has a spun bearing. He says it happened when he over-revved it, but hasn't taken the motor apart to check it. So let's assume for a moment that it IS a spun bearing. Let's also assume that there's another cause: low oil, bad oil pump or blocked oilways.
I can order oversized bearings from the UK no problem: I can get an engineering shop here to grind the crank I guess if necessary. But what do you all think: is there likely to be substantial other damage? I don't yet know how quickly he switched off the motor when he heard whatever noise it was........
Any advice would be appreciated. He may be able to supply me with a spare motor which I would take automatically!
Thanks!!