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Its blown a head casket. Which translates to its gonna cost loads of money to get it fixed. Bah.
Still I saw my engine for the first time :D
Still I saw my engine for the first time :D
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The sagacious one wrote:
> a dinky little tootlemoblie
No more drugs for that man.
> a dinky little tootlemoblie
No more drugs for that man.
Rosalind wrote:
> I hate the stoopid car, but like I said, free car. But if you wanna
> throw a mini my way ;)
Much as I'd love to, I don't have a car myself, just the bike and insurance on the wifes car.
But you can get respectable cars for next to nothing if you look hard enough. I paid £50 for my Nova, which was great for 2 years and then sold for £80, and my last escort was £115. I know a mate who bought a mini in exchange for a large size toblerone too. we got it through it's mot for about 70 quid.
> I hate the stoopid car, but like I said, free car. But if you wanna
> throw a mini my way ;)
Much as I'd love to, I don't have a car myself, just the bike and insurance on the wifes car.
But you can get respectable cars for next to nothing if you look hard enough. I paid £50 for my Nova, which was great for 2 years and then sold for £80, and my last escort was £115. I know a mate who bought a mini in exchange for a large size toblerone too. we got it through it's mot for about 70 quid.
My brother had a Yugo which was a dinky little tootlemoblie. However he was driving home with a friend one night and happened upon an oil patch on a bend from a previous accident. They went slidding into a lampost at 50-60mph (he was doing the typical young bloke thing of driving everywhere too quickly) and his mate's head whacked the windscreen (he was wearing a seatbelt) with such force upon impact it came away in one piece (the screen not his head).
The car then compacted upon itself, going from from 5 metres long to about 1 metre in an instant. Within this pocket of space, the two jammiest people I know sat relatively unscathed.
Lucky lucky lucky.
The car then compacted upon itself, going from from 5 metres long to about 1 metre in an instant. Within this pocket of space, the two jammiest people I know sat relatively unscathed.
Lucky lucky lucky.
Cars eh?
Slaveunit wrote:
> unless your dad and boyf are mechanically savvy,
Well they have a book! :S
My dads sort of stripped engines before (a lond time ago), and he is an engineer so he is technically gifted. Okay I'm not even convincing myself.
>it might be worth looking for a new car, especially if it's an AX. the
> french never got anything right in cars (from owning a 205, 309 and an
> ax, and working on a mates 306). Not to put a damper on it, but you do
> need to know a bit more than how to operate a spanner for a head gasket > change.
I can't afford a new car. This one was a free car kindly donated by my parents. I struggle to pay the bills so new car is definitly off the cards. :(
Even getting the head gasket done at a garage is cheaper than getting a new car, so this seems like a bit of an odd suggestion tpo me.
>
> but then getting a new engine for an ax is chump change compared to
> having a gasket done at the shop, so on the offchance your fellas mess
> it up, an engine swap shouldn't be that costly.
>
Less than £300 which is what I have been quoted for worse case senario getting the gasket changed and other problems sorted
> it all really depends on how much you love your ax.
I hate the stoopid car, but like I said, free car. But if you wanna throw a mini my way ;)
> unless your dad and boyf are mechanically savvy,
Well they have a book! :S
My dads sort of stripped engines before (a lond time ago), and he is an engineer so he is technically gifted. Okay I'm not even convincing myself.
>it might be worth looking for a new car, especially if it's an AX. the
> french never got anything right in cars (from owning a 205, 309 and an
> ax, and working on a mates 306). Not to put a damper on it, but you do
> need to know a bit more than how to operate a spanner for a head gasket > change.
I can't afford a new car. This one was a free car kindly donated by my parents. I struggle to pay the bills so new car is definitly off the cards. :(
Even getting the head gasket done at a garage is cheaper than getting a new car, so this seems like a bit of an odd suggestion tpo me.
>
> but then getting a new engine for an ax is chump change compared to
> having a gasket done at the shop, so on the offchance your fellas mess
> it up, an engine swap shouldn't be that costly.
>
Less than £300 which is what I have been quoted for worse case senario getting the gasket changed and other problems sorted
> it all really depends on how much you love your ax.
I hate the stoopid car, but like I said, free car. But if you wanna throw a mini my way ;)
unless your dad and boyf are mechanically savvy, it might be worth looking for a new car, especially if it's an AX. the french never got anything right in cars (from owning a 205, 309 and an ax, and working on a mates 306). Not to put a damper on it, but you do need to know a bit more than how to operate a spanner for a head gasket change.
but then getting a new engine for an ax is chump change compared to having a gasket done at the shop, so on the offchance your fellas mess it up, an engine swap shouldn't be that costly.
it all really depends on how much you love your ax.
but then getting a new engine for an ax is chump change compared to having a gasket done at the shop, so on the offchance your fellas mess it up, an engine swap shouldn't be that costly.
it all really depends on how much you love your ax.
Miserableman wrote:
> The head gasket is the join between two big bits of metal that make up
> part of your engine block. The join is never perfect, and would wear
> out over time, so what they do is bung a bit of cork between them and
> screw the top on tightly so it gets crushed and forms a join (it isn't
> real cork, but you get the idea).
I heard that the head gasket should never go of its own accord, and that it is indicitive of a more serious problem. At the least a faulty water pump. :(
>
> If I were you I might look into doing it myself - get a Haynes manual
> (or go into Halfords and have a shufty at the relevant section to see
> how hard it is).
Or I could get my Dad and my Boyf to do it so I don't get all oily :D
>In some cars, like Peugeots, the engine is mounted
> upside-down, which means the whole thing has got to be removed just so
> they can replace a bit of cork that costs a tenner.
I've got a citroen AX (I know it a girly car). I'm under the impression that the AX engine is the same as that used in some peugeots, and that the engine in question has a habit of eating through head gaskets.
I'm just a bit worried that I have the gasket replaced without refacing the head then its just gonna happen again.
I did get to see my engine all in little bits over the weekend though. Which is coming on a bit from seeing my engine for the first time on Friday.
I really ought to take some sort of auto-repair course. I think I'd enjoy that :D
> The head gasket is the join between two big bits of metal that make up
> part of your engine block. The join is never perfect, and would wear
> out over time, so what they do is bung a bit of cork between them and
> screw the top on tightly so it gets crushed and forms a join (it isn't
> real cork, but you get the idea).
I heard that the head gasket should never go of its own accord, and that it is indicitive of a more serious problem. At the least a faulty water pump. :(
>
> If I were you I might look into doing it myself - get a Haynes manual
> (or go into Halfords and have a shufty at the relevant section to see
> how hard it is).
Or I could get my Dad and my Boyf to do it so I don't get all oily :D
>In some cars, like Peugeots, the engine is mounted
> upside-down, which means the whole thing has got to be removed just so
> they can replace a bit of cork that costs a tenner.
I've got a citroen AX (I know it a girly car). I'm under the impression that the AX engine is the same as that used in some peugeots, and that the engine in question has a habit of eating through head gaskets.
I'm just a bit worried that I have the gasket replaced without refacing the head then its just gonna happen again.
I did get to see my engine all in little bits over the weekend though. Which is coming on a bit from seeing my engine for the first time on Friday.
I really ought to take some sort of auto-repair course. I think I'd enjoy that :D
The head gasket is the join between two big bits of metal that make up part of your engine block. The join is never perfect, and would wear out over time, so what they do is bung a bit of cork between them and screw the top on tightly so it gets crushed and forms a join (it isn't real cork, but you get the idea).
If I were you I might look into doing it myself - get a Haynes manual (or go into Halfords and have a shufty at the relevant section to see how hard it is). In some cars, like Peugeots, the engine is mounted upside-down, which means the whole thing has got to be removed just so they can replace a bit of cork that costs a tenner.
PLD YUO FROGS!!!!112
If I were you I might look into doing it myself - get a Haynes manual (or go into Halfords and have a shufty at the relevant section to see how hard it is). In some cars, like Peugeots, the engine is mounted upside-down, which means the whole thing has got to be removed just so they can replace a bit of cork that costs a tenner.
PLD YUO FROGS!!!!112
tempting, but until it can fire off high explosive rounds of death dealing destruction, it doesn't fit my taste.
Well, where the exhaust pipe has snapped, part of it does kinda scrape along the ground. It doesn't so much carve up the road, but there is a chance it may scratch the tarmac slightly.
Pretty impressive huh?
Pretty impressive huh?
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