Project Domes shonky autos - Grand Cherokee departs, Kangoo titivation and 911 dug out.

[dome]

Some reading material for the trip. Can thoroughly recommend this book

 

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[dome]

Standard breakfast shot

 

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[dome]

I think I'll leave them there for the journey home. If I can't see the temp gauge then I don't have to worry about it

 

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[dome]

Aberdeen achieved.

 

Last time I was here I was picking up the roffle Lexus from Supernaut. Which was also £3 a ticket from memory.

 

Half an hour or so and i meet the object of my desires.

 

Which are sitting on the dashboard of a broken funny looking Audi

 

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[The Moog]

That will be the warranty expired

[dome]

Diz shot

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

Does it use less diesel than water?

[gm]

no point in keeping an eye on the temp gauge, it has a very part time attitude to working

plug your odb scanner in if you wish to be worried by coolant temps.

 

have a safe journey home

[cort16]

Good luck dome. Are you carrying more water then a fully laden fire engine?

[dome]

Forfar achieved!

[gm]

a nice steady run or regular stoppages ?

[dome]

Fin.

 

I released the pressure in Forfar and cracked on. I stuck to 60mph and it seemed to behave, I had the heaters on all the time and the highest I saw on the coolant temp was 94. Will let it cool and check the levels.

 

The most worrying thing is something is fucked in the steering area, it feels quite wayward sometimes. Will investigate.

 

Now, I've earned a couple of butteries...

 

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[dome]

Most importantly, these are safely back in Fife!

 

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[dome]

Pupper gives his seal of approval

 

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[bigfella2]

What's the plan with it?

[M'coli]

Hopefully dome's plans will be something like this: fix it up, get bored with it, re-roffle it with the lucky* winner being a Yorkshire-domiciled Scottish Peugeot-fondler...

[dome]

What's the plan with it?

 

So from a brief prod after getting home the plan is this.

 

Fix the coolant temp gauge as it's totally dead. I'll need to see if these run 2 sensors as Torque was giving me a reading for the whole trip, it may be one sensor with 2 feeds.

 

Jacking up the front shows the drivers side lower front arm has play which explains the wayward steering. It's pretty new so I'll see what the score is there, may have to press a new bush into it though. It was a novelty not having to worry about rotten jacking points BECAUSE ALUMINIUM

 

Then I'd like to press it into service to see how it behaves before I strip it down. I'll swap the Corollas insurance on to it when I get my finger out and rip it's engine out.

[hairnet]

Hopefully dome's plans will be something like this: fix it up, get bored with it, re-roffle it with the lucky* winner being a Yorkshire-domiciled Scottish Peugeot-fondler...

How many pies bribes would that take

[M'coli]

How many pies bribes would that take

59

[bigfella2]

Well if you do decide to keep it and work your way through its foibles, there is a cheap/free way of sorting the headgasket without resorting to k-seal or steel seal. It's not guaranteed to work but worth a try.

 

Never seen it done on a three cylinder pd, but a 1.4 is essentially a 1.9 with a cylinder lopped off, so can't see why it wouldn't work. Deffo worth trying before resorting to taking the head off.

[dome]

Well if you do decide to keep it and work your way through its foibles, there is a cheap/free way of sorting the headgasket without resorting to k-seal or steel seal. It's not guaranteed to work but worth a try.

 

Never seen it done on a three cylinder pd, but a 1.4 is essentially a 1.9 with a cylinder lopped off, so can't see why it wouldn't work. Deffo worth trying before resorting to taking the head off.

Go on, I'm all ears!

 

I'll certainly try and work through its foibles, whether I keep it or not is another matter...

 

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[gm]

those lower wishbones are only two months old

[Zelandeth]

I still like this thing far more than I've any reason to with it being an Audi...

 

Going to have to try one at some point...

[dollywobbler]

Regarding the steering, just a thought, but was it as windy up there as it was down here today? A drive in the 2CV on a windy day reminds me that modern cars generally don't get blown all over the road like that. Could slab-sided Audis suffer the same?

[SiC]

Those A2 being so light and quite tall do get blown around a bit. I remember distinctly my mate battling his girlfriend's A2 in a rather nasty storm when we were travelling down the M5 together. That gained a misfire in its 1.6 FullyShitInside which turned out to be a burnt valve issue. No one would touch it and ended up getting punted around the auctions by his g/f car dealer mate.

 

So could well be normal, especially if you're used to the stability of an A4 estate.

[SiC]

I released the pressure in Forfar and cracked on.

To be fair, I have to release the pressure quite often on collections. Quite normal.

[dome]

There was no real wind to speak of on the way down-there was 3-4 mm of play in the front bush though which translated to a good bit more when hauling on the wheel.

 

As GM says i was new a couple of months ago so I'll pull it apart to see if i can work what's happened-the whole bush moves even though the bolt is tight-it feels like the centre of the bush is maybe knackered/missing

[bigfella2]

This is gonna bore the shit out of most of you but here goes.

 

Also what am describing is relevant to the four pot tdi's but can't see a reason it won't work.

 

The problem with the of engines is that the headboard aren't quite man enough for the job, so they relax/stretch a little over time and high mileage causing head lift and symptoms of hgf. So there are three options

 

A. Try re torqueing the head bolts, because if they have stretched, they won't be longer torqued down to the factory spec.

 

B. Have heard of one guy just tightening the headbolts by 90 degrees. Don't like this idea, because you tightening a bolt that may be at the correct tightness and it would worry me that you going to snap the bolt or strip threads.

 

C. This is the method that cured a previous car with hgf symptoms, sold to a family member and still going strong, and also done to my own car to prevent head lift.

 

The standard head bolts are 10.5 tensile strength, and are a little under spec for the job. So replacing the headbolts with pd150 head bolts that are rated at 12.5 tensile strength.

 

It is possible to replace each head bolt one at a time, there is a specific order to do this. And torque to factory values.

I know it sounds a bodge but lots of folk have done this to prevent head lift on high power cars, and it was recommended to me to try on my car before resorting to changing the head gasket, as the bolts are sub £30 and will be even cheaper for you as you won't have as many.

[dome]

This is gonna bore the shit out of most of you but here goes.

 

Also what am describing is relevant to the four pot tdi's but can't see a reason it won't work.

 

The problem with the of engines is that the headboard aren't quite man enough for the job, so they relax/stretch a little over time and high mileage causing head lift and symptoms of hgf. So there are three options

 

A. Try re torqueing the head bolts, because if they have stretched, they won't be longer torqued down to the factory spec.

 

B. Have heard of one guy just tightening the headbolts by 90 degrees. Don't like this idea, because you tightening a bolt that may be at the correct tightness and it would worry me that you going to snap the bolt or strip threads.

 

C. This is the method that cured a previous car with hgf symptoms, sold to a family member and still going strong, and also done to my own car to prevent head lift.

 

The standard head bolts are 10.5 tensile strength, and are a little under spec for the job. So replacing the headbolts with pd150 head bolts that are rated at 12.5 tensile strength.

 

It is possible to replace each head bolt one at a time, there is a specific order to do this. And torque to factory values.

I know it sounds a bodge but lots of folk have done this to prevent head lift on high power cars, and it was recommended to me to try on my car before resorting to changing the head gasket, as the bolts are sub £30 and will be even cheaper for you as you won't have as many.

This is exactly the kind of of post that makes this place awesome

 

I had read of this online but it's good to hear it from someone who's actually done it!

 

I'd not retorque the existing head bolts but buying and fitting new ones sounds like it's worth a shot.

[bigfella2]

Yeah I would go straight to option c first. Then if it doesn't work there's only one other option.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drop a pd130/150 in it!!!!