Spent a few hours on it tonight and got a few odd jobs sorted
1) the boost leak = NO JUBILEE CLIP ON INTERCOOLER PIPE. Sorted with new clip
2) auto box = empty altho it was showing cool level so will grab some fluid and top up and see how that goes
3) fix intercooler as only held on with top nut. = retaap bolt hole and find bolt to fit in my parts bucket Job done.
on the home straight now need to pick up new stat and rad cap as the oil has swollen the rubbers
TT box found to be low on fluid no big problem
Quick update on this I got the engine back out tonight in only 2 1/2 hours which I thought was not bad as it was fully back in and connected up.. Hope to get it fully stripped down and my old dona long block stripped and rebuilt with new front and back crank seals and sump sealing this week so could have it all done and back in and running by the weekend if all goes well 🙂
Things don’t go well…..
Well it’s all in and had it running for 10 mins to flush out the oil and water ways I’ll do another oil and filter change and see how it fars on a test drive up and down my drive. But I think there has seen alot of oil starvation to the oil pump so think it might have to come back out and have new bottom end. Russ only run the car for around 1 minute befor noticing the problem and shut it off straight away. The reason I never stripped the bottom end completely down was due to it all looking ok and no signs of bearing or other material in the oil that come out.
Should it be worst case scenario I have a spare long block out my car which I was holding onto but as Russ’s need is greater than mine and I won’t to wave the car good buy with him behind the wheel rather than on the back of another tow truck 🙁 I will do all it takes to make this happen for him
I think long and hard about this, and talk to the Mrs who agrees to push on with the build and i buy matts bottom end
Parts list:
Fuel filter
Crank pulley
Engine gasket set
Oil filter
Water pump
Coil pack clips
Cam cover breather pipes
Coolent
Oil
Engine flush
ARP studs
Coolant flush
Small update just waiting on the last bits before I can start to rebuild this, but I have changed the coil pack clips and changed the gear box plug which was smashed to bits. Also cleaned a few bits.
From here on out these are the findings and fixes…
You can see the head gasket in this section of pics
Heres a full list of all the issues found……..
As you can see port 5 is very wet
You can see the head gasket hear how on earth could you do this?
This is how it should of been
These are the new vavle steam seals!!!!!
All nice and clean now 🙂
I somehow decided that I would carry on doing the bits I could do while i waited for some parts. A chap called Matt that used to be here had contacted me and offered to fix the car for free! I was floored by this and started to collect all the bits he needed. I dont think i will ever forget what he did for me.
This madness needs its own page….so this is what happens when i start the car for the first time……….
So thats more or less all the oil mixed with coolant and exploding out the header tank……Hats off the rest of the club offering parts time and good will however by this point i was about to throw the towl