No problem...I wanted to offer to loan you mine, but someone we all know borrowed it and has been having other problems so, it hasn't been sent back my way yet.
Glad Abran was able to help you out on that.... cause it really is kind of a PITA to make if it's something you may only use once for a few minutes.
Good luck with everything!

 

sorry to hear that bud, hopefully it gets back to you timely and for your sake you don't have to use it anytime soon.

Thanks again and hopefully my block isn't affected, fingers crossed but it might be a long shot

 

Update:

Decided to get stuff cleaned up and rebuilt while I waited for the kit. Started with cleaning up the fuel rail, injectors and new o rings. Good thing too, the o rings on the sprayer end of the injectors were pretty brittle




Then we stripped off the water pumped (checked out good, appears recently replaced bc of all the red gasket goop. Got the timing chain and sprockets, seemed fine but getting replaced due to age/mileage. The oil pump was another hidden problem, opened it up to a broken outer gear. Replaced them and a new oil seal









Good as new


Oh yeah, and Abran's kit showed up:

 

Glad you caught the oil pump before it did your engine in.

Did you put the beveled edge of the outer oil pump gear into the pocket?

Some say it doesn't matter, some say it does. The original has the beveled edge into the pocket and aiming toward the radiator and the flat side without a bevel toward the cover plate that holds the gears into the front cover.

Some also say the aftermarket gear doesn't have a beveled edge but it does, so hopefully you got it right or haven't put it all back on the engine.

 

I did, read a few threads and watched a youtube video on it. Thanks for the heads up though

 

Are you doing this work by yourself? Viewing this thread and the pics (thanks) makes me wonder if I could pull something like this off.

 

I have help from my buddy AJ that owns a disco I, but we've been doing everything ourselves in the driveway. With the help of the RAVE manual and forums.

Rovers are like legos for adults, just follow the directions and you'll be fine

-Chris

 

Another friendly reminder/tip or whatever...when putting the heads back on, put the new head gaskets on, set the heads on, set the old intake/valley gasket on, set the intake on, start the 4 corner bolts in the intake and snug them up not tight just snug, then torque the heads down, then remove the intake to put the new valley gasket on.
That way you will be sure the heads will be lined up perfect with the intake.
I guess 99% of the time it isn't a problem but, one of the big time builders says he always does this to insure everything lines up correctly.
Alot of people don't bother with all of that but, we had a member here awhile back who's intake didn't line up right after torquing the heads down and turned into a nightmare from hell for him. He ended up cross-threading bolts and pulling threads from his heads and putting in inserts and all kinda problems.
So anyway, good cheap insurance.

 

good to know, i'll definitely use your advice when I get back to that point of re assembly

 

Ditto. Good tip!