Four head gaskets and two engines later... End of thread

[cort16]

Oh dear. Steam bath?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

In a field?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

In a field?

[stuboy]

bad news?

[stuboy]

bad news?

[face]

With an owl?

[face]

With an owl?

[Cavcraft]

With a pussycat in a beautiful pea green boat?

[Cavcraft]

With a pussycat in a beautiful pea green boat?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Every moment's a day

Every day seems a lifetime

Let me show you the way

To a joy beyond compare

 

I can't wait a moment more

Tell me UPDATE UPDATE UP-DATE

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Every moment's a day

Every day seems a lifetime

Let me show you the way

To a joy beyond compare

 

I can't wait a moment more

Tell me UPDATE UPDATE UP-DATE

[ashmicro]

1 month update: Brilliant little car, really fun to drive but not fast enough in 1.4 form! Problems: abs light on when driven over 90, goes back off again though. Missfire from time to time, management light back on. And the brake pedal does a real weird thing kinda kicks back or vibrates quite vigorously sometimes. Same as a Santa Fe I was driving, and a Volvo 850. (under light braking)

 

 

Missed this. If yours has the solid front disc setup, they warp for fun. If it hasn't blown it's engine (in a field etc...), either get new discs or go for a 282mm vented setup from a breaker. Pennies.

[ashmicro]

1 month update: Brilliant little car, really fun to drive but not fast enough in 1.4 form! Problems: abs light on when driven over 90, goes back off again though. Missfire from time to time, management light back on. And the brake pedal does a real weird thing kinda kicks back or vibrates quite vigorously sometimes. Same as a Santa Fe I was driving, and a Volvo 850. (under light braking)

 

 

Missed this. If yours has the solid front disc setup, they warp for fun. If it hasn't blown it's engine (in a field etc...), either get new discs or go for a 282mm vented setup from a breaker. Pennies.

[SambaS]

Sorry guys have been away in the Lake District. Had to take the FSO instead ha. I suspected it had ran out of fuel (got a dodgy guage that reads 3/4 when full) so when my boss came and rescued me he put a can in and it still wouldn't go. So we left it there and recovered it in the afternoon. While i was away they had a look at it and found out 1 theres a big dent in the tank and 2 there wasn't enough fuel in it. So no HGF.

[SambaS]

Sorry guys have been away in the Lake District. Had to take the FSO instead ha. I suspected it had ran out of fuel (got a dodgy guage that reads 3/4 when full) so when my boss came and rescued me he put a can in and it still wouldn't go. So we left it there and recovered it in the afternoon. While i was away they had a look at it and found out 1 theres a big dent in the tank and 2 there wasn't enough fuel in it. So no HGF.

[Lord Sterling]

Well, thats a relief I guess. From what I (might not completely) understand, when these 200s/MGZwhatevers run out of fuel they can be quite hard to get going again when topped up with fuel. My cousin had a Rover 25 which when run out of fuel used to be quite hard to get going again, I think he had to bump-start it or something.

[Lord Sterling]

Well, thats a relief I guess. From what I (might not completely) understand, when these 200s/MGZwhatevers run out of fuel they can be quite hard to get going again when topped up with fuel. My cousin had a Rover 25 which when run out of fuel used to be quite hard to get going again, I think he had to bump-start it or something.

[SambaS]

Well there you go. It's dead. Dead of Headgasket fail. Went to try pick my mum up who is stranded in York, now she's having to rescue me. Started loosing power on A1, then ticking, managed to smoke it to a layby not too far from mums thankfully but it has had it.

[MikeKnight]

Oh dear, sorry to hear that.

 

For a bit of good news; my little 200 is running fine after I changed the Head Gasket a month or so ago, passed MOT fine, no advisories, but the tappets are very noisy after being reinserted. Either a worn camshaft (it was scored fairly badly I noted when I removed it) or shagged tappets. Might change the tappets if I'm feeling bored sometime next spring when it isn't brass monkies outside.

[Morgan84]

Sad news,but one less to have to worry about storing which is the only lighter aspect of this- still,could have its gasket done and give it a ressurection

[SambaS]

did it die on the motorway? I'm wondering if any part of the engine will be salvageable after i pushed it another 5 miles. Guess i wont know until we take it apart.

[SambaS]

This captures the moment splendidly:

 

[SambaS]

I wonder if this was caused to split by the carnage... or whether this splitting caused the carnage :/

 

[M'coli]

Most likely, that's the cause!

[Shep Shepherd]

^

HGF failure on a K-series which wasn't caused by the head gasket itself?

[ashmicro]

The HGF is almost always caused by something else, usually a coolant loss from a pipe as here, or the inlet manifold gasket letting go and pissing out water. I saw one which was caused by the 'stat housing cracking.

[Charlie Croker]

Funny wee motors these. I've had mine a year now and had no trouble................done 14000 miles in it. I get the impression that there are good uns and bad uns. Mine i got off a pal of mine who ran it for two years again with no bother. All i do is let it warm up before going over 3000 revs and check the coolant regular. All i've had with mine is weird noise coming from the alternator area.........been like that for 6 months and not got any worse.

[KruJoe]

There's clearly not enough length of metal pipe in that join. Should be about an inch longer.

Is that a factory arrangement or has someone hacked that hose and repaired* it?

[SambaS]

looks like it's been repaired* Joe

[ashmicro]

All i've had with mine is weird noise coming from the alternator area.........been like that for 6 months and not got any worse.

 

 

"They all do that Sir." Make sure the belt isn't too tight, as it was on my 214, which killed the alternator.