Stephen

Iirc it doesn't quite work like that. As Groover says the pulley is fixed by the woodruff key and when fitted won't line up with 0 TDC, seems odd doesn't it but I believe that's correct. Did you count the teeth or just go by the premarked lines?

It certainly is a novelty to see a Morgan, trouble is they are a bit like porches and all look pretty similar, I've seen a few now. I also don't think they look all that special, defiantly not as expensive as they are. My car of the moment is the lambo aventador I've seen three since yesterday funny enough, but it's a seriously serious looking car like a cross between a jet fighter and a batmobile. There is a long list of stuff if buy before a Morgan.

Did you do any testing first or just assume it was the stem seals? Cheers for the reply.

Nope, I actually junked a core for that very reason when I was making a pair a while back. My gut reaction has been turbos for a while but but recent reading does suggest something else.

Apparently the leak down won't show the valve seals at fault, it will obviously help to show the health of the combustion chamber. A vac vague may help to show leaking seals by a bouncing needle on the gauge.

All I said was that it came across snotty and you could have worded it better.

Il bite, if you sent me that message you'd be getting rather a snotty reply, you could have worded it a bit better. Prices do seem to be on the rise and that does look a clean car, however nearly £10k is a lot of money when the average price is is a third of that for a similar condition car, I think your valuation of £4k it's pretty realistic. He may of priced it as a chancer, he may have priced it as a dreamer or he may not want to sell as such and that's the price he would part with it for. If sone one offered me £10k+ I think I'd begrudgingly have to say ok...I could pay for a new kitchen and buy a camero with the change. I don't want to do that that but hey it would be pretty tempting. At the end of the day the market decides, if people start paying £10k for them in that condition, then people will sell them for that. I can understand as a perspective buyer you may wish for them to remain a bargain, I can assure you though we will laugh one day at how they were brought and sold for banger money and scraped over a few 100 quids worth of parts, the Z32 is becoming an appreciating classic.

Look like dog worming tablets!

Do you have photobucket, flicker or the like?

Have you seen close ups of that car? It's way more detailed than you would expect.

Yeah, I suppose as well with little oil the lifters would tick louder. Might Bedworth using some assembly lube when you reassemble, I skipped that step on an old pinto and the cam jammed on initial start up, had to rebuild the head.

Is there any evidence of damage to the cams etc from oil starvation? While your stripped to the short block you could always pull it out won't take you much longer will it, then you can inspect the bottom end for play and wear, be easier to check now.

You will have left off or undone an earth or connection. You've defiantly got charge? As the that's exactly what happens when the battery has insufficient charge it just goes click. If you keep trying eventually it won't even do that and the dash lights will disco.

Friday I took it out and we used as a normal car, four guys smushed in t tops off. Infact I've used it every opertuity this weekend and last, I took it food shopping haha. Today's the first day I've not used it as I'm a little worse for wear this morning.

Holly hell no lol, we the English do not speak the queens English. Well most don't. Regional accents can be extremely different and have completely different words for the same meaning. It's not a very big place but it is a collection of small countries some of which have thier own languages. Are you British by heritage? Those tubs seems like the ideal way forward, I've found them over here for as little as £550 a side, how did you get on with the actuator brackets and did you use the oem oil drain?

Does it sound like a rattling heat sheild from the trans type area? Yet nothing Is loose...if so mine does the same it's worse when the cars cold, almost sounds like the exhaust is rattling. If so it's quite a common complaint. Couldn't tell you what it is though, I've given up with it as nothing appears to be wrong just a funny noise. Pretty sure we discussed it in so wine else's car recently.

Yeah my japspeed(read generic Chinese one) has them, just a welded on boss threaded to bolt up the stock shroud, it's not 100% correctly aligned though, but hey it was £100 and it actually works, that's Chinese stuff it's 98% there.

I've had an on going issue with my zed now for some time. The issue is that it burns oil, to start with it grey wafts of it at idle and plumes of grey/blue between 2 and 3k it was honestly like a smoke machine, terrible. After a compression test revealing an average of 160 psi across all cylinders and no oil being ingested pre throttle body it was decided it was most likely the rear turbo oil seals, inspection revealed that a pool of oil was building up in the rear compressor housing then being pushed out when the airflow was sufficient. So these were rebuilt using staggered gap rear seals etc, the Pcv system was all replaced at this time too, with non oem Pcv valves and new silicone hoses. This cured the issue almost, almost, but left me with some smoke on deleration, or after prolonged idle that initial rev, it will idle all day esp with the air con on without a single puff. After some recent work on the oil filter tree I noticed oil coking from burnt oil on the CHRA of the drivers side tub, consistent with a cigarette like waft of smoke from that area now and again. I inspected the oil feed line as I was under the impression that oil from the core couldn't leak this way, certainly not without massive amounts of smoke. There was no evidence of the feed line leaking however and I was left thinking its obviously working its way out the rear seal again via that route, as well as through the exhaust. A while passed and a few days back I had a look after a hot drive, sure enough oil was visible from the oil feed line, it obviously leaked under high pressure and burned off to the underside. Anyway I tightened this up and bobs your aunt that problem has now gone. So back to reading about the fault and speaking to a friend we came to the conclusion that it may be the valve stem seals, these may be allowing the thinned out hot oil to be sucked into the combustion chamber and gasses to be leaked out into the heads. This would obviously create blue smoke and create resistance for the turbo's to drain into the sump properly. The car doesn't noticeably burn oil, I've done about 2.5k miles this summer and its no needed topping up since my spring oil and filter change(only use the car in the summer). I have used the search function and google and found that seal replacement is possible with the engine in situee and head on, I just haven't got access or space to crane the block out right now and it came out when the turbos were done so service items were done very recently. Whilst some threads indicate that my issue sounds prime of valve stem seal failure, correct compression, low consumption, blue smoke on deceleration others say the seals rarely if ever fail on these cars and I would be wasting my time and money. Could some one please discuss some sense with me and highlight anything I may have missed. It would be a terrible waste to pull a turbo or disassemble the top end for no good reason. I am looking to borrow a leak down tester of a friend to see what results that produces, id really like to have a summer without blue smoke trails, it doesn't happen all the time but you can guarantee it will happen when everyone is looking.

It may never of gone through the books I guess, just fixed at home and sprayed up sold on. Not very scrupulous but it happens, it may not of even been the previous owner it might be historical by now.

Nah they normally come with threaded bosses to bolt upto. Alternatively it can be clamped on with weird ziptie like things.

That's not cool, is the chassis rail compressed then or something? Has the car be written off at some point or repaired without that happening, I say repaired I mean bodged, as I would expect far more damage than that was done at the time. Did you do a HPi check?

Really easy, just be careful the mountings for the screws (for example the control pods) can be quite brittle and snap out easy.

Yes to this, my Capri had an Efan retro fitted which was extremely powerful I couldn't tell you what it was off. It was a gift. You could throw a welding glove at the front grille and it would stay stuck there by the fans suction lol. It sounded like a jet engine when it was on, seriously loud.

Cheers for the clarification there Si, you are completely correct I remember both cars now lol.

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