Will it be fixable? Bodging is the way forward...

[Mew]

so I can try get the interior dried out over the weekend.

Where the hell is this "stream"? You sure it wasn't the Thames!

[Jay]

Down sarf in the middle of nowhere.

[Mew]

Down sarf in the middle of nowhere.

On the back of Portsdown Hill by any chance?

[Jay]

Nope, it has no name according to some locals who walked by while I was on the phone to recovery trying to figure out where I was.

[Jay]

Well, turned her over by hand (pushing her back and forth, it was like a water works! 

Then when enough water had come out, we pushed her back and forth for a few more minutes at which point she started to sound like a steam train (just pushing air out and was moving freely). So cranked her over with just the starter motor (GP's out and FSS disconnected) a few times, and it's sounding promising.

I've put the fuel rail, GP's, bus bar and connected the FSS again and tried cranking her over...      :embarassed:








Flat battery  Just waiting for my brother in law to get here so I can jump start her and hopefully she'll work! F@cking soaked, sinking of diesel and shivering cold... off to get a cuppa.

[Jay]

Well tried jumping it off the outlaws Zafira, giving it a few minutes with some revs on his side to charge the battery a bit and still nawt, tried a few times then gave up for the night and for some curry.

Will try again in the moring, maybe take the battery back to Halfords for a new one too.

[AdamMk2]

I havent really come up with a price for the td lump mate cos Im not sure what its worth but it had a turbo rebuild or a reconditioned/ second hand one fitted not to many miles ago cos it failed the mot on Black smoke a year back lol.

If its any good throw an offer my way, Im sure I could also help with transport

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[JC]

so, did it start ? 

[Jay]

so, did it start ? 

Nope, bag of f@cking nails at first then it grenaded, threw a rod and put a hole in the engine, been down the hospital with my brother in law since 11am as he was standing in front of it when this happened and got said rod in the eye*

Almost and the engine seems to turn over OK, running it up and down the car park again today with the GP's out (sounding like a steam train pushing the air out). Got a new battery from Halfords, the other was knackered... 

It was looking more hopeful, I think there is just water in the fuel now as the GP light flashes when waiting for them to warm up. I don't have the facilities/storage for that volume of liquid to drain the tank, nor do I have high pressure air lines to blow the lines clean.

Come across a major stumbling block though... GP #1 doesn't want to screw in correctly and goes in at a slight angle, when cranking her over there was smoke coming out of GP #1 hole because of this.

I'm thinking a Helicoil repair job @ Crazy Quiffs providing they can with having to remove the head...   Along with draining the tank, blowing out the fuel lines.

Oh I also sold the Frontera   



*This may not have actually happened.

[JC]

so its fcuked then