A Realy Bad Time To Come...

[bucketep91]

not good! sorry to hear mate! my engine gave up last month the day after its MOT when i was due to sell it a week later! couldnt have came at a worse time. i was in the same boat as you so i know how your feeling. i got a low milage engine cheap and gary_ep91 fitted it for me for a great price! its running mint now and will be back up for sale soon. try not to think about it for a day or 2 and sort your head out then get back to it and fix it as i know you love your wee car! it'll be worth it in the end

[Glanza-Love]

Cheers mate. aye see what i can do.

[bucketep91]

if its any use to you i still have my old engine. it soun a bearing and kncakered 1 of the shells so everything else should be fine

[Glanza-Love]

Bucket champ. let me get back to you on it. was the head fine on yours?

[bucketep91]

yeah mate the headgasket was done 6 weeks before the bottom end went

[garbla900]

i know bucket and as far as i can tell the head was fine on it was just the bottom end that was away on his.

[scot-ish]

what sort of power did it run mate? and what sort of deal are you after for an 82? let me know mate. as if you only need an engine, its only a days work, £500 and that would be all new fluids, timing belt, the lot.

cheers

[scot-ish]

i would imagine with the back pressure mentioned, prob pushing pressure from the oil dipstick. blow past, but i dont get why a stuck lifter would cause pressure in the sump? pressumably, that would cause a lack of power in the cyl with the stuck lifter, due to no compresion on that cyl.

m interested in the how the conclusion came about...

[Idrees]

Ps. If you break it I'll have the 98 spec bumper.

[Liam_D]

Gutted for you dude!! Let us know for defiante what it is.

[LeeG]

mines went two weeks ago thought it was rings had went but stripped it and found a had melted a piston.

[scot-ish]

<br />mines went two weeks ago thought it was rings had went but stripped it and found a had melted a piston.<br />

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must be the heat up that side of the country haha

[bucketep91]

i know theres quite a few starlets up here have shit themselves latley lol mines ,lees, geos and now ross's aswell wtf is going on

[scot-ish]

hope you dont use morrisons fuel, i put it in mine onced, and it run like a bag o shite, in the end i drained about £20 and put it in my mums rover haha

[bucketep91]

i run vpower religiously!

[LeeG]

a blame iceland for the volcano.lol

[Glanza-Love]

^ smesme volcanic ash PWND my car :) :harhar:

[Danturbo4311]

You need to do a compression test & if theres low cylinders put oil down them & test them again to see if it raises compression if it does then you've most probably cracked the piston ringlands (bit between the piston rings).

[Pandamonium]

Thats crap mate, hope its an easy fix, just something being stupid.

If not, could be interested in actuator at right price

Mark

[Ollie]

bad times mate , looks a nice car you got there, if you decide to brake it chuck me a pm , ill take the toms spoiler if u have one ?

[Chris250]

Guess that's what happens when you give it shoe for over a year without a full map in the e-manage. Bad news bud, hope it is fixible as it was a pretty rapid car