Timbo

In principle I'd have a set, assuming a non-ridiculous price.

SOLD, pending collection.

No one? Next stop is the scrap heap 😢

Just had a wee look with my telescope gauges... (surprisingly?) they're all pretty round, as far I'm able to measure anyway.

No crank. Intermediate pulley bearing in good shape, no discernable wiggle. Engine had 130k on it, but the bores are still in reasonable shape. Ideally you'd pick it up from Edinburgh, but I'll stick it on a pallet if required (at your cost). No idea what it's worth tbh, £50 ONO I guess? https://imgur.com/a/FXFthCg

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202400799941

Agreed, he is super annoying!

Unless I'm blind, surprised no one has posted this yet:

Sorry, didn't mean to come across as snarky; it's been an annoying few weekends getting oily, recently, for no payback. You make a good point, though having said that I wouldn't say I was confident in this block, now :(. I'm leaning towards replacing the engine, I think.

Just putting a feeler out really, but is the engine a decent runner and would you be willing to pallet it to Scotland?

I rebuilt the head in the past couple of years, but besides that nothing of note. The fact that I had done this work is really why I homed in on it as the source of the noise. One of the conrod bolts on the affected cylinder was not what I would call loose, but certainly not tight. It's impossible to know whether this is cause or effect though really. Worth saying all the other bearings looked completely fine. The most surprising thing for me is how suddenly it came on. It was completely quiet until a few weeks back when the knocking started. I've only started it since to check if my attempts at fixes made any difference, and for a few minutes after replacing the tappets it was completely quiet again. Very odd. Thing is, if the crank is goosed (and I'm pretty sure it is), so is the conrod. And if the conrod needs replaced then the piston needs to come out and if the piston needs to come out, the block needs to be split and if the block needs to be split I'm basically doing a rebuild and I might as well save myself the trouble and replace the whole engine. To be frank I'm in my mid to late thirties now and this p1ssing about with cars thing is starting to get a bit tiresome. I guess my options are: * Sell as a non-runner project for someone else to fix up * Fix and rebuild the existing VR6 * Replace (+refurb?) with another VR6 * Like a muppet, turn it into an R32 project

Edited it to rehost the image; hopefully it can be seen now. It is shells, or what's left of them. I haven't measured it, but the crank journal looks more or less ruined. I think it's a fairly dead engine now to be honest, and not really worth rebuilding given it's had shredded bearing shell pumping round it for who knows how long. Anyone got a spare engine? ;)

Yes well, safe to say it's big end.

I think I would prefer if it were the big end!

Fair enough, balls. Could swear it's a top end sound though. Hmmmph.