Broken down; place your bets

[Poodle]

GINGIVITIS!!

YOU JUST TOOK THE WORDS FROM MY BRAIN!

I was 'totes going to say this.
I'm glad you did though; I don't fancy a brick to the face from Le Ginge...

Totes couldnt resist haha, posted on the basis that ginge probably cant throw a brick this far.

[ginge191]

So retimed the engine, cambelt looked fine,

Manually crank and quite strange, gets at the end of a full 360 rotation and locks, won't go any further. It's definitely not just a compression stroke, it's pretty locked.

Going to try and start, nothing to lose

[procta]

so...whats happening..?

a 1.5 na derv lump is going in,

[ginge191]

Cars had it... Gearbox is wedged (noticed also the bell housing cover on the bottom was missing) so needs a new gearbox / or un'wedging.
Retimed but god knows if it would start

On the hunt for a new motor now

[cully]

check in the open hole for goodies stuck in the flywheel
wind the engine backwords you might find a bolt drop out the housing

[Niall]

Its 'wedged'? How the hell does a gear box wedge? Tried jacking it up at the front and turning the wheels with the car in neutral?

[cully]

put the clutch in and try to manualy turn the engine over

[MissTap_GTI6]

check in the open hole for goodies stuck in the flywheel
wind the engine backwords you might find a bolt drop out the housing

tried; still locked, it physically won;t turn by hand or by starter; tried taking the starter off incase something were wedged here, nope.

Its 'wedged'? How the hell does a gear box wedge? Tried jacking it up at the front and turning the wheels with the car in neutral?

oui; the wheels turn but no gear/fly ofcourse as it's not engaged to a gear

put the clutch in and try to manualy turn the engine over

tried; also tried rolling the car and dumping the clutch in first to try and chuck it free that way, nothing; literally hit a brick wall of force

[Niall]

check in the open hole for goodies stuck in the flywheel
wind the engine backwords you might find a bolt drop out the housing

tried; still locked, it physically won;t turn by hand or by starter; tried taking the starter off incase something were wedged here, nope.

Its 'wedged'? How the hell does a gear box wedge? Tried jacking it up at the front and turning the wheels with the car in neutral?

oui; the wheels turn but no gear/fly ofcourse as it's not engaged to a gear

put the clutch in and try to manualy turn the engine over

tried; also tried rolling the car and dumping the clutch in first to try and chuck it free that way, nothing; literally hit a brick wall of force

Has it got a quickshift on it? If so, my money is on jammed syncro.

[MissTap_GTI6]

nah, it's the 205, standard linkages

[vlj]

Bloody hell, you guuuuys!

[strictly_perv]

Sounds like the cambelt slipped and bent a valve.

[cwspellowe]

Dropped a precup or maybe a valve

Dont worry about fixing it, itll only be something simple, just fir a 2.1TD or better a 2.5TD

Babe, as much as I love you, give it a rest with the old displacement thingy. Please? xx

No

Oh god please do.

[td_dan]

Sounds like the cambelt slipped and bent a valve.

Exactly this had it on my dt tried forcing it round and snapped the camshaft so whatever you do dont force it lol, slap another head in, time it up and you should be good to go

[Niall]

Dropped a precup or maybe a valve

Dont worry about fixing it, itll only be something simple, just fir a 2.1TD or better a 2.5TD

Babe, as much as I love you, give it a rest with the old displacement thingy. Please? xx

No

Oh god please do.

But theres no replacement for displacement! Oh wait, we are not stupid americans! Dum, ill give you a days ban for every 0.1 of a litre more you insist is going to make a massive difference over a standard 2.0HDi that you already have and there is nothing wrong with!

[Poodle]

Its 'wedged'? How the hell does a gear box wedge? Tried jacking it up at the front and turning the wheels with the car in neutral?

oui; the wheels turn but no gear/fly ofcourse as it's not engaged to a gear

If the wheels turn at all the gearbox isn't jammed. If you're still confused have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaUJfA1KsY

Must have bent the valve fairly seriously if it jams up the engine. :S

[Piggy]

sounds like bent/broken valve.

dont try starting it! whip head off and have a gander...loads of people on here seem to have xud heads already to go, IE rebuilt or skimmed already.

[ginge191]

Not a bad shout; thanks for the replies, but in fairness I really have not the time to replace the head, just started my post grad course and start "work" next week. I think I'm going to have to get a small, cheap run around for now and break the 205

[Niall]

Err man up. Could swap the head in a morning and have it running providing there us no serious piston or bore damage

[ginge191]

Err man up. Could swap the head in a morning and have it running providing there us no serious piston or bore damage

Is the only reason i'm not fixing it.

IF anything does go wrong i'm literally stranded. I NEED a car more than ever as mentioed above. I might consider repairing it in time but it is just sitting in a garage at the moment...

Things to consider over the next 7 days; i've got a car im borrowing til then

[vlj]

I can come over in the week to get the head off if you want? Got a bloody awesome crow bar

[Scott]

Vaughan

[Poodle]

I'm in a position to help now bud, give us a shout if i can do anything.

[ginge191]

Thanks guys, appreciate it, will keep you posted

[vlj]

Thanks guys, appreciate it, will keep you posted

Any time darling!

[Dum-Dum]

If you pay my fuel I'll come and whip the head off for you or I'll even get the train down tomorrow afternoon if you put me up for the night.



So you say you get almost a full turn at the crank dies it go the full turn back the other way and lock? Im still gonna guess snapped cam or dropped precup.

[ginge191]

That was initially; I couldn't get it to turn, I was then in the mindset that something was broken, I'll try turn it over with the starter; had a small turn then locked up.

Now it has no turn either way

I probably caused more of an issue but either way, it will need taking apart at some point.

Cheers Chris, gonna wait til half term I think then have a poke at it
Feel free to join then!