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.
Last edited by djinuk; 10-01-2010 at 09:45.
was there any antifreeze in it?
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 herringOriginally Posted by djinuk
yea cambelt driving, its a tu3 8v engine, realy simple.
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.
ouch
get some piks up of the offending engine mate
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..
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..
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.
as promised
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
the garage
The full damage, the conrod has snapped and twisted halfway and put a slice through both the front and the back of the engine.
and the piston and liner
conditions were less than great at the north pole
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.
come nightfall last night we had a running pug 106
and here is me thinking i am the dogs danglies for changing an alternator
on my 19 16v in this weather
nice work mate
Top work Damian and team.
LOL Dj loves it!!!!
Well done mate you truly have the skills to pay the bills.
top stuff mate, and i bet sarah was inside(in the warm) painting her nails aswell
I read that so wrong.top stuff mate, and i bet sarah was inside(in the warm) painting her nails aswellI must have mild (perverted) dislexia.
Nice kill dude, never knew the TU engines were wet lined
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