windrush:
Well to be honest while working for a BMC dealership we never had a lot of trouble with the Perkins V8 in Mastiffs? A few burned oil from new but modified liners cured that, and many did 100,000 miles without anything major. They were mostly in 16 tonne gross tippers though. By a strange quirk of fete the designer of the Perkins V8 became a member of the Volkswagen camping club I was a committee member of and he was a lovely chap!Pete.
I just hope you gave him chapter & verse on behalf of us poor operators, Pete? To be fair, the one that I had was not just a bit “long in the tooth” but had most of it’s teeth missing! By the time I was lumbered with it the oil consumption was worse than the fuel. Running it at 30 tons didn’t help matters, either!