The good and the evil: engine bays

[D Spares & Tyres]

Rhd Lada Niva..

 

Changed steering box on one of mine. That job nearly broke me mentally....

[sloth]

disco 3/4 and the jags with the 2.7 or 3.0 v6 tdis are easy to work on. most body off stuff can be done with it on. cambelt and pump belt changes take me 5 hrs.

[PiperCub]

I did the clutch on my 10v 156. I won't be doing another.

 

Amusingly - that's exactly what the guy who I bought my 156 off of that I had years ago said! The AR V6 - lovely engine but shit to work on. You know it's bad when even the oil filter is almost impossible to get out! 

 

Would agree with pretty much every MPV with their letterbox bonnets are a nightmare. 

 

Good ones? Nothing modern springs to mind. My Mk1 MX5 1.6 is pretty good (bar oil filter but that's OK once you know the way) and Golf GTi Mk1/2 are good too, along with Ford CVH applications. 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Jaguar S type diesel.

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Not much better with the cover removed.

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Jaguar S type V6 pez, left bank plug change involves inlet manifold removal.

Such a shit job even jag techies leave them alone!!

 

 

To me, that car is junk. It's not fixable when it goes badly wrong and was designed by a group of highly educated idiots.

 

Like so many cars, it's a one shot deal - drive it until it shits itself, then bridge it with no chance of a repair. Fucking pointless unless it's £250.

[Bren]

Cavalier/vectra V6. Timing belt is a PITA. Easier to remove inner wings with plasma cutter then do job.

 

Renault 5 GT Turbo is a nightmare to work on as well.

 

Vectra cdti 120 remove air box to change headlight bulb. Some garages will not do glow plugs due to access.

[mercrocker]

Who needs an engine bay?

 

 

 

checking the front tyre pressure's a pain, tho!

[Asimo]

Hub cap and trim ring a bit pointless too!

[sierraman]

Ford Duratec thermostat. You need the hands of a small child to extract the bolts let alone tighten them up.

[MarvinsMom]

The six cylinder Jaguar XJ40 is an easy thing to work on - not that they ever go wrong really. Its is an attractive thing too.

 

 

 

i see your AJ6, and i raise you to an AJ16.

 

other than check the oil and water it isn't somewhere that i poke around in too much, as it scares me, alot.

also there are things in here that i have no idea what they do, never mind how i would go about replacing or repairing them.

 

plus that bloody blower takes up loads of room.

[forddeliveryboy]

^^ Aye but the later car looks as if its engine bay was made in China compared with the elegance of the older car's olde Englande appeal.

[tooSavvy]

2nd... no, EQUAL 'troo love'.....

 

 

5port iron head & 40DCOE... hill/sprinter early shell.

 

 

 

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[320touring]

I'm not gunna start..

 

cx is a nightmare; 306 a doddle

[Dippy]

Pulled the starter out of my 2300s today then cleaned it and put it back in under 30 minutes without rushing and half that time is removing the air filter and pipe work.

 

I love that there's plenty of room to put all your tools under there to.

[forddeliveryboy]

I'm not gunna start..

 

cx is a nightmare; 306 a doddle

 

Nah, it's only the injection stuff which makes them look awkward - carb and diesel ones are simple-tastic! Even the cambelt  (only fitted to the Renner engined ones and half of one on the turbodiesels) is dead easy - take os wheel off, remove rubber covers and it's all in front of you, nothing in the way.

 

In contrast, I find anything with a XUD a pain in the arse - alternator on a car with AC (nasty), HP/PS pump (fookin' awkward), horrid auxiliary belt tensioner which fucks up and so on - that's before you've reached the cambelt. Ever tried to get to the thermostat on a 2.1? Not as bad as a V6 Aldi, but not much better.

[Barry Cade]

 

Nothing is as it seems in there...

 

Easier to work on this..

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Nothing is as it seems in there...

 

A fun game is to call someone over and ask them to pull out the dipstick. It just keeps on coming!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

What sort of car is it?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

i see your AJ6, and i raise you to an AJ16.

 

other than check the oil and water it isn't somewhere that i poke around in too much, as it scares me, alot.

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also there are things in here that i have no idea what they do, never mind how i would go about replacing or repairing them.

 

plus that bloody blower takes up loads of room.

 

 

The power of the supercharged AJ16 would be very welcome though!

 

I have long thought that an XJ40 Sovereign or Daimler with the supercharged XJR6 engine from the X300 would be just about my perfect Jaguar. There is a poster who is doing just this - or at least is dressing an X300 XJR with XJ40 outer body panels and fitting an XJ40 Sovereign interior -  to look like an XJ40, whilst retaining the better, more accurate, construction techniques Ford used when they reengineered the '40s old BL tub for the X300.

 

Here it is:

 

https://www.xj40.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=996502

[PhilA]

Admittedly everything you need to get at on a regular basis on my Renault is easy. Plugs are right there, oil filter nice and easy in a big gap up front. Belts are a pain but not horrendous though you need to pressure wash the crap off the frame rail before changing the aux belt else putting it on gets old greb all in the vees and it slips as bad as the one that came off.

 

Everything else is horrible because it's a 2.0 in a space designed for a 1.1

 

Phil