Horney's 'James Shead' 1988 BTCC Golf GTI replica build.

[Horney]

I'll have a nosey at mine while I have it in bits before tuesdays trackday and see what the score is.

Nick

[Horney]

Jobs for this weekend before tuesdays trackday.

* Oil and Oil Filter change
* Change oil filter housing gasket
* Remove Sump and check oil pump gauze. Refit with new gasket.
* Regrease both outer CV joints and replace zip ties
* Fit new Mintex 1155 pads and bed them in.

Nick

[Horney]

* Oil and Oil Filter change - Done
* Change oil filter housing gasket - Done
* Remove Sump and check oil pump gauze. Refit with new gasket. - Sacked off till next month
* Regrease both outer CV joints and replace zip ties - To Do Tomorrow
* Fit new Mintex 1155 pads and bed them in. - To do tomorrow.

Todays gasket replacement went well part fromknocking the dizzy with a spanner so therefore knocking my timing out. "No Worries" I thought, I'll reset that later with my mates timing light. Oil filter housing gasket repalced, new oil, new filter, filled with water and bled. Jobs a gooden, now to reset the timing. Ah.

Turns out with the strobe running noen of the timing marks show up no matter how far you turn the dizzy. Decide to find TDC on No 1 and mark up the fly wheel then try and guess 6 Deg BTDC. Stick a chop stick in number won through the sparkplug hole and rock car in 1st gear till the piston tops out. "Snap" WTF was that! Remove shop stick from No 1 to find the last 1/2" missing presumed lost inside bore No 1. Oh Sh!t!!!!! For the next hour and a bit me and my mate Chris spent much time with garden wire, tweasers and blue tack and eventually got it out. Thank f**k for that, it would have been worse the worst excuse for missing a track day.

Nick

[Diamond Hell]

"Snap" WTF was that! Remove shop stick from No 1 to find the last 1/2" missing presumed lost inside bore No 1. Oh Sh!t!!!!! For the next hour and a bit me and my mate Chris spent much time with garden wire, tweasers and blue tack and eventually got it out. Thank f**k for that, it would have been worse the worst excuse for missing a track day.

proper LOL

Better a bad day working on the car than a good day at the office.

[Matty-MK3]

Would the chop stick not have eventually burned off anyway? 

[Horney]

"Snap" WTF was that! Remove shop stick from No 1 to find the last 1/2" missing presumed lost inside bore No 1. Oh Sh!t!!!!! For the next hour and a bit me and my mate Chris spent much time with garden wire, tweasers and blue tack and eventually got it out. Thank f**k for that, it would have been worse the worst excuse for missing a track day.

proper LOL

Better a bad day working on the car than a good day at the office.

It gets better mate. Turns out said chop stick was Mrs Horney's and had been stolen from the chinky on her 21st birthday and had great sentimental value. I'm in the Dog House to put it mildy as the matching one I ruined last year stirring paint.

Anyway I still have the problem of how to set my timing properly though. Not really sure what to do. Well peed off that dizzy was lose enough for me to knock it round with a spanner. I've not touched it since I've had it so must not have been tightened up enough but Alex when he last adjusted it.

Nick

[Horney]

Would the chop stick not have eventually burned off anyway? 

It's plastic and about 1/2" long. You don't want that banging about in your engine! It could have jammed a valve open and caused all sorts of havoc. Not to mention all those bits of plastic going through the oil pump and clogging stuff up.

Nick

[Matty-MK3]

Oh I thought it was wooden, thought it would just burn straight up.

 

[Horney]

even a wooden one would probably f**k your engine before it burnt up.

Nick

[Matty-MK3]

Meh....