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[derskine]

Not yet, removing the timing cover requires the headlights, grill and alternator belt to be removed, so until it's in the unit I can't really get to it, unfortunately.

[alf892]

Was definitely fuel dribbling out, so is it safe to assume it's glow plug/compression related?  Pretty much as there isn't much fuel coming through with zero throttle.

I did also try putting a hot air gun in the air intake with the air filter out, that didn't really help either. Not enough heat!

Am I right in thinking heat is generated when the air is compressed within the cylinders, even without the glow plugs, so with a lot of cranking it would eventually heat up enough due to this and start - and easy start would reduce the heat required? Yes heat is generated by the compression.........and this is the problem really. With indirect injection the air does a bit of travelling and gets cooled by the cold metal which is why you need the heater plugs. Your battery and starter will not be able to crank enough to warn it up. A long tow at a good speed might............I only tried this once and it didn't work..........I did a couple of miles at 20/30mph.

 

I don't like easy start simply because it is easy to break the top piston ring.........like when it knocks or locks. This is how engines get 'addicted' .........broken top ring=less compression=more easy start required. An engine in any sort of running condition does not need 'Mothers Breath' to start it...........if it won't go the cause needs fixing.

 

 

[panhard65]

Easy start isn't going to fix it but should get it started so it can be driven to the workshop for a better investigation. In other news the Rolls passed it's mot this morning. Advisory on brake pipes and the brake discs. Better start saving up for the discs as they aren't cheap.

[derskine]

I'm not a huge fan of it either, I don't like when people use it on petrol carburettor engines when you could just tip some petrol into the carb, but in this case I'm really desperate to get this moved from where it is.

Might have to hook a towing pole up to it and tow it there, but I'd rather not because I hate doing that.

The terminals of the glow plugs look very old and rusty, so maybe it's not a bad thing to just replace them as a matter of course anyway.

I'll try some easystart again and if it doesn't work I'll just have to tow it, then I can get the timing cover off, check that's okay, check the compression and then test/replace the glow plugs.

[The Moog]

405s were pretty good at 'doing a Passat' whereby if you don't clear the scuttle panel area, you end up with flooded foot wells.

Or if a simpleton has forgotten to replace the scuttle cover meaning rain was pouring straight through the fan opening.

 

Thanks Cav wouldn't have checked that otherwise.

[beko1987]

 

Mot day, here we go!

[nacho man]

/\/\ did it pass?

[Skoze]

Today, my 7500 word dissertation attempting to cross graphic design and 70s chod was handed in.

 

 

Big ups to Trigger and his Retro Roadtests and Anne, whose chest has got me through many dark moments in the writing of this essay. 

[trigger]

Glad to hear that my scanning has been of some help! Good luck with the results.

[Jon]

Great work Skoze!

 

I took English Language at A-Level simply because my best GCSE grade was in that subject. Found out sharpish that it was not a good choice, so chopped it in for Business and Economics in the first 2 weeks during the college subject amnesty, since it was one of the few subjects not already filled. I knew bugger all about the subject and don't feel like I retained much of what was taught but did well, as so much of the final grade was based on the marks of portfolio projects; all except one of which I based on the car industry, as my car mag buying was at a premium at the time. I got something ludicrous like 93% for one of them!

 

In other slightly delayed news, on the drive home from the last of a few night shifts, I thought it'd be a great time to tackle the oil change in the 205 when I got home, as it was a nice quick job. The 205 was no bother, the only hiccup being trying to find where I'd put the square bit for the sump bolt. Spurred on, I decided to tackle the Clio, a newish addition so something I'd not done before. The sump bolt is the same, so no fannying around having to get that sorted and the oil drained easily after a nice local blat. But, being a 172 the filter is located in the most annoying place; I could see it and just about get a grip of it with my left hand but someone had obviously screwed it up waaay more than finger tight, so after struggling for an hour(!), bruising both arms and trying to use my incredibly cheap filter removal tool, I gave in and took the 40km round trip to the nearest parts shop to buy a new 3 pronged filter removal tool which also turned out to be crap.

 

I didn't want to do the old screwdriver in the filter trick as I knew it wouldn't solve the problem but in a moment of enlightenment, I decided to stick a large jubilee clip round it, then use the screw head as purchase for the filter removal tool, which finally worked. I'd like to admit that throughout what should be a simple procedure but turns out to be the test of a man's mettle,I kept my cool and didn't take out my frustration on any inanimate objects. That said, the very first thing I did with the offending filter once removed was take it round the back of the garage and smash it with an axe; the resulting splats of oil all over the surrounding foliage was well worth the cathartic pleasure.

 

 

And no, that isn't a giant axe, just a very very small oil filter. Is that a modern car thing?

[320touring]

Is that the usual 'clio filter above the suspension arm' location shenanigans?

 

Fookin woop!

[twosmoke300]

Or the Renault filter rammed down the front of the engine surrounded by a birds nest of fragile plastic pipes and wiring looms . And you can't seem to get to it from above or below.

 

And on a kangoo the fucking bastard hinged at the front bonnet so you can see the square root of fuck all.

 

 

 

 

Aaaaannnnd relax

[Jon]

Or the Renault filter rammed down the front of the engine surrounded by a birds nest of fragile plastic pipes and wiring looms . And you can't seem to get to it from above or below.

 

That's the jobbie. Bracketry for pipes, hanging wires and the dipstick tube all got in the way of the ratchet, meaning that it was difficult to line the ratchet and removal tool up to the filter, then attempt a single click of the ratchet before hitting something and knocking it off. Either that, or pulling the ratchet back to attempt another click would undo the 'grip' of the filter remover, so the whole thing fell apart. The square drive hole for the ratchet on the filter remover is shallower than the depth of the ratchet and as a result the ball bearing recess was in the wrong place, so it fell off and dropped to an inaccessible location somewhere below. Fortunately Mrs_Jon was roped in to help and has childlike arms, or I think I really would have lost it!

 

Am hoping that this will all have been resolved for next time by just tightening the filter a little more than finger tight. No leaks, so I'm happy on that front.

[Jim Bell]

My dad has just bought a 1970 P5 coupe, blind, from a car breaker on a different coast of England. That has sat in a barn/garage since forever.

From the pics, my untrained eye says its a pear.

He's convinved it just needs panels and a bit of welding for an MOT.

 

His wife, will not be happy.

[Cavcraft]

A couple of dull things from planet Vauxhall: firstly it seems 30mph in first and 58 in second are about the limits. Next up, it was dark this morning so I had to use someone else's vehicle as a guide to my own parking

 

 

I accidentally didn't stop far enough back and there was a car the other side out of shot.

[alf892]

My dad has just bought a 1970 P5 coupe, blind, from a car breaker on a different coast of England. That has sat in a barn/garage since forever.

From the pics, my untrained eye says its a pear.

He's convinved it just needs panels and a bit of welding for an MOT.

 

His wife, will not be happy.

Great though..............gives me hope for old age!

[Essex V6]

You know that one car that you've always wish you bought, well mine was a Mk1 XR2 back in 1999/2000, a lad at work bought one from a garage we done bodywork for as a part exchange, I'm guessing it was cheap but i don't know what he paid for it.

 

Anyway it sat in his lock up for a while and one day he offered it to me, it was a 1 owner 40000 mile car in black and mint, he only wanted £500 for it but when i rang about insuring it i think it was something like £1000+ and i couldn't afford it, apparently he ended up selling it to a bad for £1200-1400.

 

Imagine my surprise when i see it pop up on KGF's facebook page tonight!.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/173418/immaculate-ford-fiesta-65040-miles

 

Gutted!, would you believe that they had it up for £7495 ono!. Bloody hell!

Sunburst Red XR2 is on my lottery win list!

[Lankytim]

Visited the local scrappy today. Wasn't someone after a sherpa engine? This one has a perkins diesel lump and the vendor wants 200 notes for the lump and box. I also found and raided this C15.

[fordperv]

I went down gintys the other day to see if there's anything interesting, can't believe how rammed it is with cars, i havnt seen it that busy for years

[derskine]

Easy start no worky, it sounded like it would start almost then started running out of battery.

FOAD is coming round shortly with a v6 Camry and a towing pole.

[Lankytim]

I think the low price of scrap is making them stockpile shite until it goes up again.

[twosmoke300]

I would say you have bugger all compression derskine . Either slipped timing or she buggeroonied im afraid.

[Six-cylinder]

Visited the local scrappy today. .............I also found and raided this C15.

 

Anything interesting for our C15? I am quite happy to reimburse you any expenses to improve the old girl.

[Six-cylinder]

Strange day, I collected my 10 year old Range Rover TD6 from MOT, nothing needed no advisories, am I dreaming!

[dollywobbler]

I think I shall be travelling by 2CV in the morning for the AS Midlands meet-up. Poor thing hasn't moved all week as I've been busy on school minibus duty, or faffing about with the XM.

[Six-cylinder]

My 1995 Audi convertiable has a strange problem, it spits white powder out of the heater demist vent and worse still it keeps misting up. I have cleaned it with glass cleaner but within 15 minutes it's misted again even with plenty of warm air blowing. The car does not use water or smell of antifreeze like a leaking heater matrix. I guess the powder is something like aluminium corroding as the car sits around a lot but why does it keep misting up?

[Six-cylinder]

I think I shall be travelling by 2CV in the morning for the AS Midlands meet-up. Poor thing hasn't moved all week as I've been busy on school minibus duty, or faffing about with the XM.

 

AS Midlands meet up- have I missed something?

[dollywobbler]

Yes. The AS Midlands meet up thread.

[M'coli]

That'll be the a gubbed heater matrix in the Audi...

[derskine]

Well, even the towing failed miserably, both towing hooks ripped off the 18.

Recovery truck tomorrow, what a piss around!

If the engine does turn out to be buggered that's not the end of the world, they were used in quite a lot of Renaults and might be a good opportunity to fit a turbo diesel one.