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[procta]

Erm procta! He said the headgasket had been done did he not? How did they skim the head if they didn't dismantle the vvc??

I've seen it be pikey'd by skimming without removing valves before - seen that countless times - not to mention did they even skim the head or just stick a new gasket on...

We're assuming that this has been done properly here! LOL!

i bought an engine that was supposedly a good strong sweet runner on its orginal head gasket,
the engine wasn't in the car not even two weeks, when it died on tick over! the car only moved from one part of the drive to the other.
i got a mate of a mate to check it over, and he checked the timing and compression. all were ok, then he managed to bump start it and there was the nasty clatter,
he said some things been f*cked with inside, as that's bad timing, so the head has to come off.
when we got around to removing the rocker cover, we clocked the vvc pick up,
( what i posted in the link brass like part ) had a massive chip out of it, where the head bolt had been forced in,
so that proved that theory that it had been incorrectly timed in the past, then we clocked one of the head bolts, that had been chewed up badly, to the point where you couldn't get a socket on the end.
that was enough to throw the engine as scrap.
god knows what they had done to make it run sweet, proberly glued something.
fuckin £500 quid out of pocket! i got 20 quid f*ck scrap!
if i get the chance to meet the seller again, i will kick his fuckin head right in!
i have reused mine, and had no bother, but try not get it dirty etc. i will be replacing mine when i change the rocker cover.