Its been about a month now since this one stopped working and this weekend everything seems to have come together. Hopefully the rest of it will all go back together over the next few days without issues then i can have it as my daily again, getting sick of plodding around in a punto.
It's got a new head on, which came off a Xsara, had fun at the scrap yard trying to lift it. When taking my old head off the dowell wasn't in (for some reason......) and so didn't know it excisted, thanks for clearing that one up Mark. Progress slowed down a bit when i dropped a fuel filter housing bolt into the fly wheel, WOOPS!! Bosch pump is also now on and working.
So spent a bit earlier ragging it up and down my drive, fine tuning it. There was a really bad boost leak, eventually figured out that the lack of a boost compensator probably didnt help!
Threre was still all sorts of colours coming out the exhaust, if it was black all the time then I would be happy, but the fact that there is still some blue/white smoke (honestly can't tell which one it is), although it does smell of unburnt diesel. Assuming that either the timing isn't spot on or it happens to start with after a head change until everything is all bedded in.
Fingers crossed it will be reliable for at least a fortnight this time and then I can start getting a bit more ambitious and push on, making the car a hell of a let better instead of having to keep on fixing it, haha.
It's got a new head on, which came off a Xsara, had fun at the scrap yard trying to lift it. When taking my old head off the dowell wasn't in (for some reason......) and so didn't know it excisted, thanks for clearing that one up Mark. Progress slowed down a bit when i dropped a fuel filter housing bolt into the fly wheel, WOOPS!! Bosch pump is also now on and working.
So spent a bit earlier ragging it up and down my drive, fine tuning it. There was a really bad boost leak, eventually figured out that the lack of a boost compensator probably didnt help!
Threre was still all sorts of colours coming out the exhaust, if it was black all the time then I would be happy, but the fact that there is still some blue/white smoke (honestly can't tell which one it is), although it does smell of unburnt diesel. Assuming that either the timing isn't spot on or it happens to start with after a head change until everything is all bedded in.
Fingers crossed it will be reliable for at least a fortnight this time and then I can start getting a bit more ambitious and push on, making the car a hell of a let better instead of having to keep on fixing it, haha.
Daily Slag: http://306oc.co.uk/forum/thread-3849.html
Track Slag: http://306oc.co.uk/forum/thread-8873.html
Track Slag: http://306oc.co.uk/forum/thread-8873.html
