1.6TD bore scratches

[oblique]

So my lower end was burning quite a bit of oil so I found a good running motor to swap. The bores still had some of the original cross hatch and only very minor ridging on a couple cylinders but what it did have is some odd scratches. The motor was low mile but it sat for a long long time ...there was a lot of corrosion in various places so I'm thinking there the crap that had built up in there came loose and created these scratches when the motor was run again?

[ORCoaster]

Can you hone them out?  That might be enough and not make it so you need to do a new set of rings.

[fatmobile]

Someone suggested I use sour cream containers,
cut to fit the cylinders, to keep stuff out of the cylinders
while I clean the surface and bolt holes.
 I think oykos (sp) yoghurt containers might fit too.
 It works great to keep out small pieces that might get between the piston and wall and cause more sctratches.

[oblique]

So i swapped my motor to this bottom end along with the AMC head from the other thread and started it up today...so far so good, test drive tmrw when I reconnect cooling system.

I asked Giles to build the pump to 15psi...how am I going to get 15 pounds out this motor i don't know...blows a lot of smoke right now.

Question: how much a detriment is oil contamination on the mating surfaces? I had a bunchnof oil in the head and it seeped onto the gasket before i could really crank it down.

[fatmobile]

It's nice to keep the block and head grease free.
 That's why the sour cream cylinder plugs are handy,
I can just spray the surface down and not worry about stuff going into the cylinders.
 I suppose a little oil should be OK,.. guess we'll see.

[oblique]

just retorqued the head bolts after 1500kms...so far running pretty well on this block.

before dropping it in: