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Nialle
24-07-2012, 19:02
Hey does anyone live near blackpool and have some spare time on saturday to help out a guy in need, need to do the head gasket on my 5 but im a pure amature lol im confidant the head dunt need skimming as it never over heated so hopefully just a case of fitting a new 1 :) pleaseeeee :) haha financial rewards could be availible ;)

Spooky
24-07-2012, 22:14
I will be in Blackpool, Lytham to be exact, on Saturday & I could help out.

I would recommend finding an engineering place to confirm the flatness of the head as a bare minimum :)

Nialle
24-07-2012, 23:25
I dont know anywhere over here that can do that ive not lived here for long haha i think it should be fine, worst that happens is it goes again int it?

Tony Walker
25-07-2012, 00:10
Does it run on 4 cylinders at the moment? if it does then chances are heads flat enough.

Nialle
25-07-2012, 09:19
Yeah wen i can get her started she sounds mint think id hear it if it wasnt runnin on all 4, last car i had that dropped 2 cylinders i could hear it and the car judderd when i could get it started

Spooky
25-07-2012, 15:13
Good shout Tony :agree:

Would be worth doing a compression test too :)

Nialle
25-07-2012, 16:32
Im tryna get hold of a compression tester at the minute spooky. thinking about maybe going and trying to dtrip it all down in a minute though haha :)