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[jimfoo]

I have been working on my project for untold weeks now. Yet due to the intricacies that are my stocks which fund my project , and then waiting for parts to see that they will work before I order other parts, and due to me still not working, I have been sitting on my butt for untold hours per day surfing the web as it has been too cold and snowy to do something useful like clean my garage so that I have room to work on my Rover when the purchase and acquisition of all necessary parts is done. However I have finally been able to pick up my block, my ceramic coated pistons, my head and my crank. However due to incompetency at the machine shop, the ramp type keyway on the nose of the crank for the timing belt gear which was supposed to have been filled with weld, then ground into a D shape for the new sprocket was mostly just ground down. GRRRR!!! So I actually spent the morning building the crank up with weld, slowly grinding it down with a dremel, and repeating the process until I finally got a good tight fit. I did also put a piston in to measure protrusion as I wasn't positive if TDI pistons were close enough to the same height as the IDI ones. It would have sucked if they were too tall and I had to machine my ceramic coating off. So now I can finally order my head gasket of the correct thickness, as well as the last remaining gaskets and seals and finally start putting it together. Then all I need is to get the injection pump modified. It has been WAY too long since I've driven my Series, and I really miss it. New pictures will follow as soon as I start assembly.