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PVR V6 GURUS 200

posted by  someone claiming to be Rhys on  Sat Dec 28 11:08 CST 2002 [RELATED]

I have had to rebuild a few of those engines, as much as I tried to avoid it. My understanding is that the small screen the French put in the oil passageway to heads is to be removed, as it clogs up with crud and that is what limits oil flow to the heads, which takes out the rockers and lobes quickly. There are two of them as I recall, in the timing cover area.

Of course the B21 and B23 engines suffer the same fate when overheated at high mileage after infrequent oil changes - the passageway across the head gasket plugs and shuts off oil flow the cam, siezing it. So even the trusty old red block has its problems that way. The B230 engines used a machined passageway in the block deck to improve oil flow.





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