Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

Having just paid someone else a small fortune to do much the same on my 4m41 engine as I am better with calculators than spanners, I am following this thread with awe

Respect man!

CATS

By the way. Those air bellows are supposed to last a lifetime so not sure why yours is stuffed? Maybe it was pinched somewhere? Mine is still going strong but had a small leak in the pipe somewhere which I 'fixed' with mountain bike tyre slime pumped into the system

CATS

CATS wrote:By the way. Those air bellows are supposed to last a lifetime so not sure why yours is stuffed? Maybe it was pinched somewhere? Mine is still going strong but had a small leak in the pipe somewhere which I 'fixed' with mountain bike tyre slime pumped into the system

CATS

Thank you CATS,

I will check the bellows during the week and see if there is a makers name on them. Will then enquire if they have a warranty and see if I can get a reduced price to fix.

Today (early morning) I split the engine block and removed the pistons and crankshaft. We were without power for most of the day due to some power cable replacement in our street. This made picture taking difficult in the light available in my garage/work area as it is very poor. Anyway, once the block was all in bits, we washed them and loaded them onto the Hyundai H100 and delivered them to the Machinists (Cylinder Head Technicians) in Alberton.
We washed the components with a degreaser and then hosed them down with the garden hose. We do have a power washer that we bought from Adendorff Machinery Mart some years ago, but the hose is faulty and obtaining any parts for a fix is extremely difficult. Will have to look at options as i am going to be needing this bit of kit to clean the 4X4 and suspension systems.
These pix were taken of the following bits as thew were loaded.

Here we have the upper engine block, lower engine block and the crank shaft.
The reason for pulling the bottom part of the engine out was I was unsure of the condition of the bore and bearings etc.. These pix show the condition of he crank and cylinder sleeves/bore. The pic showing the crank journals is a little concerning to me. The journals themselves look rather promising but the heat marks on the crank is something I am not sure of. Will wait for the machinists who will check if the crank is bent or cracked and what machining is necessary.

The vertical mark on the last pic in this set is from cylinder NO3. Now that the cylinder is washed there seems to be no scored marks on the cylinder. It is possible that the cylinders might only have to be honed and not re-bored. That would be a big saving as pistons would not have to be replaces. Only rings. The middle pic is cylinder NO2.

When the "bits" were stripped from the engine I placed them in "JIFFY" bags and marked them with a permanent marker. Nothing worse than searching for bolts on reassembly. This is what I did.
All the parts now cleaned, packed in a box awaiting reassembly.

Over the weekend I went out shopping for paints and a color scheme of the engine. Bought these.

The idea is to paint the engine block in Pajero red. Blue will be for piping except the aluminium air con pipes. Those i am considering anodizing black. Or maybe just painting black..The Hi heat silver will be used to paint the exhaust manifold. Still debating this as the inlet manifold is silver. Decisions decisions...

Not much happened today my side. Hope a lot was happening from the machinist/engineers , other side.

Still waiting for the fuel injector pump rebuild. There was a mounting plate that was cracked (by me) and was sent out for stitching. The pump itself has been refurbished and a detailed report on what was done will be explained.

The air-con compressor refurbish seems to have hit a problem. Will address this issue soon. I am having a very vague experience with the entity the compressor was was given to for repair. Partly my fault as i have not followed up. But i would have expected a call at least. More on this later.

I did fib a little in the previous post. Something did happen my side. There was a discussion between the wife and myself as to why I had to paint and refurbish everything. Sometime convincing the wife is more challenging than actually performing the feat.

"Why spend all this money on making the engine look pretty when nobody is going to see it when you drive it", she asks.
Fail to get to grips on her reasoning. Something clearly missing with her logic.

No news from the machinists on Friday, nor the Air-con guy.

So today I trolled the 4X4 shops looking at all the cool stuff.

Looked at some lovely gas filled shocks to replace the suspect ones I have, a cool bumper bull bar set up, light protectors, winches, recovery kits, suspension lift kits, overhead console, air springs, GPS systems.......

WOW pricing is steep. But I want, and the vehicle to be cool, comfortable and not over capitalized.

stay away from black paint. It hides leaks.

4ePikanini wrote:stay away from black paint. It hides leaks.

Thank you for the heads up bud, will keep that in mind. Air-con pipes will be painted mat black and the chassis will remain black. Will rethink this though.

My discussion with the wife seems to have sparked a interest.