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Seeing as it was a nice day i thought i would bring the car out clean it and take it for a little ride around , for test purposes only of course to see if we had finally done the head gasket after the last one i put on was letting water into the oil , and after the little ride out it looks as thoughthe gasket is ok :cheers: :cheers:
Massive thanks must again go to martin for helping me (well actually he did most the work...lol) :cheers:
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dasadrew
13-02-2005, 15:50
Showing pics like that to persons still conducting a restoration is an offence under Section 23 para. 5a of the Geneva convention.
lathamescortmk2
13-02-2005, 15:59
*impulse mode on* *searches ebay for an mint rs2000*
man what id do for a car like that.
lucky lucky man :cheers:
edit: why is your exhaudt on the wrong side?
*impulse mode on* *searches ebay for an mint rs2000*
man what id do for a car like that.
lucky lucky man :cheers:
edit: why is your exhaudt on the wrong side?
Not really lucky as its just your run of the mill mk2 , not immaculate by a long way just semi clean , thanks for the kind comment though .
As for the exhaust didnt know it was on the wrong side ..are all mk2 exhausts not on that side then???
Looks good,
PS; my exhaust is on the same side.
looking good Gaz, like to get FEV to that level.
as for the exhaust, the left hand side exit is the standard mountings for a Mk2.
lathamescortmk2
13-02-2005, 16:44
i thought the pinto engine had the outlet manifold on the other side of the engine? and on most pinto/cossie poiwered cars i see the exhaust on the other side (mine is on the left btw, but i have an xflow)
ah well you learn something new everyday :cheers:
RS2000&MEXICO
13-02-2005, 17:05
i bet that was nice after all that time a gaz....
i bet that was nice after all that time a gaz....
Oh it was mate , got the MOT on thursday , hopefully it will pass then tax it at the beginning of march , take it to mr norris sometime in march to be set up then give it some stick for a few months , by that time my other head should be done , then fit that over next winter, and get the little bodywork "issues" sorted.
nice to see i have a plan for next winter allready :geek:
RS2000&MEXICO
13-02-2005, 17:24
yep there loads more i want to do to mine
i want a 2.0 cosworth block and then i will have that all done i hope....lol
more money
Banishit
13-02-2005, 17:38
Nice job Gaz its looking really well mate :cheers:
Very nice Gaz but you might need to get your hacksaw out for them u-bolts they look a bit long
martin c
13-02-2005, 18:57
Looking good, Hopefully get mine on the road next weekend as my mate has just phoned to say my diff is finished ( new plate lsd + bearings into 3.9) just got to fit it now lol
Already fitted new head gasket + rose jointed gear lever, only the new roller top mounts to fit.
Then the interior is of to the trimmers to have this fitted.
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Deepest Blue
13-02-2005, 19:41
Looking well Gaz! :thumbright:
CheeRS Neil
Second time lucky on the gasket then mate :cheers:
looks like it mate , all traces of mayonaise have dissapeared, done a few miles in it today , came round to yours but you must have been out ( or hiding behind the sofa , so i couldnt collar you into doing more work for me...lol) so i will now drain the £3 oil out and put some better stuff in there .
Thanks again martin for the help :cheers:
RS2000&MEXICO
13-02-2005, 21:02
do a flush aswell gaz as that cheap oil will burn a f**k the new oil.... :cheers:
dasadrew
13-02-2005, 21:19
someone mention mayonnaise? That's water in the oil! Is someone changing their oil brand to cure water in the oil? Personally I'd look for a water jacket/system leak!
someone mention mayonnaise? That's water in the oil! Is someone changing their oil brand to cure water in the oil? Personally I'd look for a water jacket/system leak!
No No No let me explain.
I have had the head off the car to be sent away to be modded, but then i purchased another head instead to be sent away , so i put the original back on the car so i can use it for the whilst the other head is being done , i purchased a new head gasket and new head bolts. whilst the old bolts were out i noticed they had been cut down , for reasons i did not know .
When i put the head back on with the new gasket and new bolts , torqued up properly etc , i ran the car for a while and thats when i noticed "mayonaise" water in the oil and oil in the water . The bolts must heve been bottoming out before crushing the gasket .
So i have now gone back to using the "cut down" head bolts and a new gasket. As not wanting to waste money i put some cheap oil (£3) in the car just to test to see if the mayo problem had dissapeared ......it has :cheers: so its now time to drain the cheap oil out and put some more expensive stuff in :cheers:
dasadrew
13-02-2005, 22:36
Ahhh! Now that sounds logical!
A bit strange about those cut down bolts though, and the fact that normal ones bottom out. Do you think there might be some broken of bolt remnants in the holes? Poke a stick down when the head is off the next time to see if all are the same depth!
I think maybe the block has been decked and the head skimmed making normal length bolts too long ....only thing i can think of
dasadrew
13-02-2005, 23:27
Hmmm. I can't think that the mm or so taken off during decking would make bolts bottom out - they're surely not that close tolerance.
paul spence
14-02-2005, 08:37
looking well :cat: .
Gaz, You really need to watch. If your bolts are too long and bottom out like you say, When you tork the head down I've seen the blocks crack. It sounds like your block has been seriously decked and the head skimmed. The only other time I've seen this is when someone was using a low compression Transit bottom end and instead of changing the pistons they just got the block decked but I don't remember the bolts needing cut???
:cheers:
Chris.
I would say that there has been about 5/6mm taken off the bolts
Frosticles
14-02-2005, 19:45
Nice job there young Gaz. Look foreward to seeing it in the flesh as they say
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