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General => General discussion => Topic started by: sportline_velly on 03 May 2005, 13:55
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i thought it was about time i did some of my own work on my car.
With the head gasket going totally on me while i was up Bruntingthrope the other week i thought i out fix this myself.
after chatting to a few people how to do the job i started on firday afternoon
it all went well, apart from i forgot to drain the water out so when i split the head water went everywhere lol
(http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL190/1179511/2776802/95270574.jpg)
after filling up the cylinders with water i got an old t-shirt and cleaned up my mess.
oh yeah, i was doing all of this out in the street outside nextdoor lol
(http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL190/1179511/2776802/95270565.jpg)
(http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL190/1179511/2776802/95270569.jpg)
(http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL190/1179511/2776802/95270562.jpg)
(my house is the white one by the 109 bin lol)
got it all back together but i put the cam belt on wrong!!!
i had it going the wrong way around the tensioner!!!
i knew i did something wrong and after about 10 calls to carpy and paulh i got to the bottom of it.
Paul cam up to make sure i was doing it correct and withing 15mins we had the car running [:D]
BUT had a leak drom the rocker cover, so thanks to carpy i had a new gasket off him and i changed that yesterday.
just an oil change tonight and job done [:D]
not a bad weekends work of an office monkey  [LOL] [:P]ÂÂÂ
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:smiley: well done mate, takes b*lls to tackle a job like that
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Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.
Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner :huh:
Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve :cry:.
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.
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Good effort matey, office monkey myself so that takes some b0llocks to attempt. Hat off to you ! :grin: :grin: FAF as well doing it all a couple of doors down from you, bet the neighbours love you ! :laugh: :laugh:
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I wouldnt know where to start with engines. Whay do it myself when i can pay someone to do it?
Oh actually, i see, so i dont have to pay anyone to do it  :tongue:
Good work though!
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Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.
Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner :huh:
Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve :cry:.
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.
the engine was put in the car in october with a new cam belt and tensioner
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fair play for having a go at it, and succeeding!
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i remember when i had to do my head gasket a few years ago, i was frickin scared!!! but hey, i've just done a full engine out re-build!!!! so its amazing what us pen pushers can do!!!
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top job.
was it as easy at it looks?
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yeah it was....i took about 6 photos of the engine bay so i knew where everything went.
i alsomarked every thing so i know wot plugged in where, it made like mych simpler :laugh:
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Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.
Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner :huh:
Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve :cry:.
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.
the engine was put in the car in october with a new cam belt and tensioner
And the gasket had gone already?  :laugh:
Anyway good work fella  :cool:
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Good work velly, more than i ever did on my car in one throw.....
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Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.
Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner :huh:
Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve :cry:.
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.
the engine was put in the car in october with a new cam belt and tensioner
And the gasket had gone already?  :laugh:
Anyway good work fella  :cool:
to tell you the truth i think the gasket was gone in the first place.
i got the engine off a mate who had it for ages in the back of the shed, he had never run it and i always lost water from somewhere......now i know where :grin:
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Its fun doing it in the road :laugh:
I've done 2 clutches and a vr6 head gasket amongst other things outside my old house  :laugh:
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well done vel
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Well done clart!! Did you have to ring Jodie at all when you were doing the job?
I would have deffo got it wrong if I had done it :sad:
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Nice one Velly... :cool:
Wish I had the nouse to do that, luckily I've not had to do it :grin:
You didn't have to have head skimmed? How could you tell you hadn't done any damage to the head?
Your neighbours are either very nice tolerant people or scared of you :laugh: :laugh:
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chris, i spoke to jody b4 i started, he gave me a guide how to do it :cool:
piggy,
i never had the car run 'really' hot so in that case thereshouldnt have been any damage to the head.
plus i could see the holes in the gasket so u can see where it was leaking.
as for the neighbours, i would probably say scared lol :grin: