Quicksilver 106 Engine Gone Bang In A Big Way

[djinuk]

Ok, last night, very cold, car very cold..

car pulls off, there is a bang , engine locks, and underneath there is a small pool of oil, about a cap full.

i put turn the starter and just get a click, as though its locked up.

Should i expect to see a conrod hanging out the side of the engine?

It was late last night so so i just pushed it onto the driveway but tonight i shall be inspecting.

The engines had a hard life i think before hand with little chavs.

[Andrew Cooke]

was there any antifreeze in it?

[djinuk]

yuppers, pretty fresh antifreeze aswell, you thinking the water pump froze up ? or ?

[Andrew Cooke]

yuppers, pretty fresh antifreeze aswell, you thinking the water pump froze up ? or ?

it was a possibility, I don't know what drives the pump on those engines, so it might have been the cambelt. Either way if it had antifreeze ignore me as that's a red herring :)

[djinuk]

yea cambelt driving, its a tu3 8v engine, realy simple.

[djinuk]

ok , i got a friend to nip up and take a look now its light, apparntly the no2 piston is hanging out the front of the block.

[dave r5]

ouch

get some piks up of the offending engine mate

[djinuk]

I will do man, to say its a kick in the balls is a piss take..

the car has been nothing but hassle..

brought it, did 9 miles , hg went, 2 days later clutch release bearing went, a few months on and this.

The engine always had some funny isues aswell, strange hesitations in revs etc.

Ill get some pics, ive not actually seen it myself yet..

[dangerous dave]

good thing there 10 a penny, get another engine off a breaker or ebay, give it a once over, clutch, cambelt, pumps pulleys etc and drop it in.. fingers crossed some happy motoring..

i fooking love 106's.... the j plate xsi i sold my brothers still going well, and best yet they never seem to rot.. :cool:

[djinuk]

you got it mate, there is one on ebay local to me. All being well id like to get the car back on the road for saturday night.

Cambelt/tensioner
Waterpump
Oil
Oil filter
Plugs

and hopefully all will be sweet.

althought its a bit cheapo spec ill reuse the clutch off teh current engine as its not done 1k miles.

Bit depressing though when a car keeps costing so much.

[djinuk]

as promised

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[djinuk]

As we planned to get the car back on the road for monday we missioned on.

I found a low mileage engine for cheap , with history etc, and it was very local, only thing was its from a Y reg and has diffrent inlet, manifold yada yada yada, so there been quite a bit of swapping and changing to make it fit and work with the existing loom.

We found ourself working in virtually blizzard conditions at one point.
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snowww
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the garage
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The full damage, the conrod has snapped and twisted halfway and put a slice through both the front and the back of the engine.
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and the piston and liner
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conditions were less than great at the north pole
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the new engine got a fresh timing belt and fitted, along with lots of bits being swapped over, the only thing we are waiting on now is for the lamba sensor to be welded into a diffrent postion on the manifold as currently it hits the oil filter.
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come nightfall last night we had a running pug 106
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[Schakal]

and here is me thinking i am the dogs danglies for changing an alternator
on my 19 16v in this weather :laugh:

nice work mate :agree::agree:

[TrixNFlix]

Top work Damian and team. :agree: Nice to see some other members out in this weather.:)

[Kenobi]

LOL Dj loves it!!!!

Well done mate you truly have the skills to pay the bills.

[5alldaway]

top stuff mate, and i bet sarah was inside(in the warm) painting her nails aswell :cry:

[Kenobi]

top stuff mate, and i bet sarah was inside(in the warm) painting her nails aswell :cry:

I read that so wrong.:cooter: I must have mild (perverted) dislexia.

[Os8472]

Nice kill dude, never knew the TU engines were wet lined