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General => General discussion => Topic started by: HARDCOR3 on 22 June 2006, 15:23
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Either mine are really really fooked, or i've ran over a midget and he's bangin on the cam cover with a spanner for me to let him out..... :huh:
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you ran over a midget :laugh:
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:undecided: if only it was that simple.....
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:laugh:
dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:
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:laugh:
dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:
sump gasket and oil etc......£50
chain tensioners and chains £500
do ya wanna swap midgets?????? :grin:
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dont worry, i have a midget that pisses oil out of my sump :undecided:
sump gasket and oil etc......£50
chain tensioners and chains £500
do ya wanna swap midgets?????? :grin:
yes, because i dont need a chain tensioner :laugh: he can be useful and make the tea for me :grin:
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How many miles it done? They're supposed to last the life of the engine aren't they?
Hearing stuff like this always concerns me... Having just bought a cash absorbtion device VR6 myself, and already having had to fix some big-ass cooling pipe, a door lock, an electric window, the clutch slave cylinder, and now have discovered a CV joint is knackered.. I can well believe it'll decide to throw it's chain out the bonnet and allow the engine to grid itself to pieces. I think it hates me. :cry:
And I bought it off a mate of mine! Bastard. To be totally honest, he either honestly didn't know about the problems (I lived with him while he owned it for 2 years - I only moved out about a month and a half before buying it) And none of it is that bad really - I know a cheap mechanic and can do quite a bit myself :wink: And at least I know which bits are new.
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120k, but last 10k ave been full tilt miles........ :evil:
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nah timing chains are pretty much due at this age. did them on a vr two weeks ago, gearbox off job takes a while as so much has to come off to get them out, but they run so much sweeter afterwards!
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if the car was close to 100k I would get them done. they're a right swine, but have to be done.
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The chains don't usually go if the car is serviced on time.
The upper chain guide is prone to breaking, also earlier type upper tensioners are hydraulic only, later type are hydraulic and spring loaded.
Change both of these, if the noise goes then leave the chains alone.