Clearly bits of the engine had been apart - starter was loosely bolted on, hammer marks and a broken mount casting on the IP so there was some doubt over whether it was a runner, so really we just wanted to establish that before he invested time and effort in bits for it. Parts can be quite expensive (recon starter - £240!
) so imagine the cost of an injection pump.
The IP also had a stripped drain port (they're supposed to be oil filled and changed every 50 hours), so it may have been idling badly without oil in the IP. So we've bodged up a bigger bolt with PTFE - it'll need to come off and be re-tapped. But at least it has oil in it now.
As mentioned before the starter had a shorting cable in it, so perhaps it wasn't starting for the previous owner and running badly when it did.
Now we know it runs it can have some more TLC - though it's a big ol' beast, I'm sure as-is it would happily run for a very long time.
The hydraulic pipes at the back are from the gearbox (in turn driving the propshaft). They carry oil to a multi-core heat exchanger in the water pipe you can see running front-back on the left. At the moment it has no water circulating as the water pump had broken fins on the impeller, which has been removed. The gearbox oil was all creamy so we've detached one of the cooler pipes and let the engine pump the box dry. Suspect water got in through the dipstick hole (or the heat exchanger leaks!)
Bleeding the air out of the fuel system was pretty tricky - but yes, satisfying to hear the ol' gal running.
