BigPaul

lol just figured the 4 torque converter bolts...! thanks anyway.....

I'm in the garage with the engine split from the box.. as in all the bolts are undone, and all the wires disconnected, the engine pulls as far as enough to see the fly wheel, but the box won't seperate completely... It's an auto box jap model, can anyone tell me what I've missed?

She started today like this... She's now like this.... Engine out as soon as I can get hold of a hoist.... I'm doin the rings as well, as I've a sneaky suspision they're gonna be fubar as well. I'm taking no chances, and replacing every gasket, seal, rubber, pipe and piston ring she has.... Hints tips and prayers should be added below.....

if there is no manufacturing, then create manufacturers....

The government need to spend some money on geting more small businesses off the ground and employing people. When people have new jobs, they spend more money, more things are needed to be made to refill the shops, small businesses get new orders, need more employees, who go and spend their money, and the train rolls on.... IT AINT ROCKET SCIENCE MR BROWN YOU DIPSTICK

DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh, ****!" SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. Son of a b*tch TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "Son of a bitch" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

so would that mean that cylinder is filling with water?

I'm gonna take her apart anyway, and do a heat gasket set, I'll check for the rings, and touchy-feel my way through it, it might take me a while and a few hundred photos, but I'll do, and know more about my engine, and have the best "how-to" ever seen in the process..... I'll be asking for hints and tis, and paying my subscription in due course.... I aint expecting a free ride lol......

I did the 275 cylinder twice.... exactly the same both times.... *headscratch*

that's a bummer... :(

Boost was below +7 on the standard gauge, and the compressions read as follows (reading from top cylinder drivers side down engine then top on passenger side down engine) 125 = normal 1 practically zero 2 175 3 275 4 75 5 115 6 125

just done compression test. 3 cylinders are reading low to zero, 2 others are normal and the last one was reading double what it should be..... Is there a how to for head gaskets?!

lol have you read the translated engrish on that page lmao... :smash:

Had a good long look at her yesterday, can't see any oil in the bay, or dripped on the floor, belts all seem fine, fired her up, she's lumpy as hell, sounding like a petrol lawnmower, so I shut her off, had another look for leaks, none. So it's lookin like HG to me, can't see any oil in the water, and oil level is normal. HALP?? :(

why didn't you just say that in the first place?! :headvswal

burn the place down with your car in there, and don't get caught... oh and make sure they have insurance first... you hate car, they're crap at fixing cars, everyone's a winner.... nb... don't do that, I'm joking, but it would work out for the best...lol

I was considering one of those, but after andy's comment above I'll wait until someone works out the technical bits...

Went out for a drive in her last night, to start clearing the smoke, and failed miserably :( I knew that buying a car that's been sat as long as this was was asking for trouble. I knew it'd be one thing breaking after another, and alot of teething problems.... Tonight, I was nippin about with my nephew, and she was running good, pulling nice, still smoking from the pcv's being done, but that's fine, I know why, and I know it's fixing itself the more I drive, so every now and then, I was giving it the beans for a few seconds, and I was being dead impressed by the way she just zips off up the road when you floor the go button. Then some chav in a vxr decided he'd try his luck, I floored, she shot off, he tried to keep up, then poom... masses of smoke out the back, and she started driving like she's dropped a couple of cylinders. Lucky, I was less than a mile from home, and the oil pressure gauge wasn't reading low, so we limped home... If I touch the gas at all, the smoke out the back was thick, not black, but not white, we were looking at it under them stupid orange streetlights, so it could've been pink for all I know.... and so the list grows.... The list of things broke/fixed so far is.... Drivers Door window stuck PCV Valve's screwed - FIXED Drivers Door lock fubar Boost pipes leaking major - FIXED High pressure Power Steering fluid pipe split Intercooler split - FIXED delimiter screwed THE NEW PROBLEM I'll win though... I always do.... Anyone got any ideas as to what might have gone? I'm home now to check her out, but I'm havin a cuppa first, and hoping someone can point me in the right direction....

Just a quickie to say thanks to the lads at Zedworld. The car was barely running when I got there, and was driving smooth, and steady when I left.... :nana2: There could have been more boost leaks, when I got there, but I would've had to have removed all the pipes to achieve that!! :nono: Just gotta suffer the next few miles of burning the oil off from the totally shot pcv valves :eek: I ended up with new pcv's, new pipes, and an intercooler replaced.... :wack: Ta very much lads... and thanks for the tea! :)

sweet... hicas light now out.... :)

cheers chaps.... :D

What fluid goes in the power steering resevoir? Is it standard dot 4, or summat special....? cheers

Trax at Silverstone this weekend, I'll be there on track at 9am in my Volvo, trying not to blow her up, but pushing her hard enough, so she might! I'll also be parked on the BritishMods stand, if anyone wants a perv at the old swedish beast.... Not bringing the Zed, as it's really hard to drive two cars from Coventry to Silverstone at the same time....:headvswal

Finally got her on the road today, she's booked in at zedworld on the 15th for the pcvs, and thourogh check up. Hopefully the james bond smoke screen can removed while I'm there.... I've noticed like a ticking noise as I pull away coming from the engine bay area... Anyone got any ideas what that might be? (still got the 2 year old petrol in there, fyi)

and how's this for a picture? Reflection off my Volvo T5.....