couldnt resist it

[wiggyrs]

Second time lucky on the gasket then mate

[GAZ W]

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

[RS2000&MEXICO]

do a flush aswell gaz as that cheap oil will burn a f**k the new oil....

[dasadrew]

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!

[GAZ W]

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 so its now time to drain the cheap oil out and put some more expensive stuff in

[dasadrew]

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!

[GAZ W]

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]

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]

looking well .

[Chrisbo]

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???



Chris.

[GAZ W]

I would say that there has been about 5/6mm taken off the bolts

[Frosticles]

Nice job there young Gaz. Look foreward to seeing it in the flesh as they say