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    anyone live near blackpool??

    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

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    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

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    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?

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    Does it run on 4 cylinders at the moment? if it does then chances are heads flat enough.

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    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

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    Good shout Tony

    Would be worth doing a compression test too

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    Re: anyone live near blackpool??

    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

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