Twosmoke’s latest project ( Papa!)

[twosmoke300]

The beast that is Kiltox’s Mk1 Clio was delivered this morning after paying more than the purchase cost to have it moved ( I believe that’s a theme with this car )

Its a little honey !

Initial diagnosis shows a misfire on no1 (or no4 in non french ) and a vac pipe /t piece loose and leaking . 
Next step will be to check the valve clearances . 
 

[SiC]

I've always wondered if the cambelt tensioner has loosened and shifted timing out a bit too. 

[sierraman]

Des Idees Fatales! Are you going to get a beige blazer and a beret like Papa?

[cobblers]

It'll be good to see this saved, fingers crossed! 

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

I've always wondered if the cambelt tensioner has loosened and shifted timing out a bit too. 

It’s a single cylinder problem . 
You can hear the spark cracking when you pull the lead off that cyl but no change in engine tone when that cyl is out of action . The other 3 are doing work and no 1(4) isn’t 

[Barry Cade]

I've replaced a few injectors on those way back, also the thin wires liked to turn green inside the insulation.. are the wires long enough to move the plugs around?

[twosmoke300]

It’s single point injection ( maybe dual - not looked that closely yet )

[Barry Cade]

Ah.. looked too fancy in the pic to be just SPi ! Rules out anything fuel related then..

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

It’s a single cylinder problem . 
You can hear the spark cracking when you pull the lead off that cyl but no change in engine tone when that cyl is out of action . The other 3 are doing work and no 1(4) isn’t 

Duff plug?

[Kiltox]

14 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Duff plug?

They’ve been replaced a couple of times!

Glad this has made it to a pair of hands likely to actually stand a chance of fixing it! 

[twosmoke300]

Yeh I assumed the simple bits like plugs etc had been done

[SiC]

Camera down the plug hole to double check nothing more sinister going on? Iirc compression checks passed out ok though.

[twosmoke300]

Initial guess is tight valve or burnt out valve . Or something dropped into a valve . 
 

[twosmoke300]

Will check tappets first then maybe leak down check 

[SiC]

Is it a dizzy cap on these or coil pack?

[twosmoke300]

Dizzy . But it certainly sounded like a good strong spark when I pulled the lead off. I’ve spent literally 5 mins on this mind 😂

[Kiltox]

I had a borescope down it, looked alright to my untrained eye. 

[twosmoke300]

Had a bit more time on this today . Valve clearances all ok and cylinder leakage test on that cylinder all fine.

Further checks shows an inlet manifold leak around that cylinder . It looks like its been off before so will be interesting to see what I find. Might get the new apprentice on it tomorrow.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Might get the new apprentice on it tomorrow.

"fix this by lunchtime or you don't have a job" 

[twosmoke300]

Correct ! 

[Barry Cade]

He'll be up until piecetime looking for the OBD socket..

[Kiltox]

On 11/15/2021 at 4:34 PM, twosmoke300 said:

Had a bit more time on this today . Valve clearances all ok and cylinder leakage test on that cylinder all fine.

Further checks shows an inlet manifold leak around that cylinder . It looks like its been off before so will be interesting to see what I find. Might get the new apprentice on it tomorrow.

I changed the inlet gasket but the access to the fasteners for it is fucking awful so if I’ve left something loose and that’s all it is I’ll be pretty pissed off 😂 

[twosmoke300]

Im wondering of its the wrong way round

 

[Spurious]

I miss my smol renault.

I'd a little 1.4 Phase one Clio.  Thought it was the shit, it had a rev counter, volt gauge and even a oil level gauge.  It failed it's NCT (the  Irish MOT) with a leaky steering rack and I couldn't get one at a reasonable cost so I sold it cheap and it's probably bean tins now. Great wee car.  It also felt rapid and could handle reasonably well, very planted on the road.  Actually I don't think I could get one in Ireland at all, they'd all but disappeared off the road by 2014 and spares in scrap yards had long gone too.

Looking forward to see this one on here however, shout us up if you ever decide to part with it.

[twosmoke300]

Fixes have occured!

The new manifold gasket was on top of lumps of old gasket - sorry @Kiltox

4 new tyres on order and MOT booked

[Kiltox]

🤦‍♂️ Kinell. 

[twosmoke300]

Not here to judge 😂😂😂

[phil_lihp]

@twosmoke300 you're getting quite the track record here for fixing the cars others can't fix!  

[cobblers]

it's cheating if you do it for a living though

[Jenson Velcro]

42 minutes ago, cobblers said:

it's cheating if you do it for a living though

I dunno. I’m sure there are plenty of‘professional mechanics’ who wouldn’t have a clue where to start with a problem like that….