Modification uk

well its died and been replaced again - i will get around to putting some pictures up on here soon.

Diagnosis of the problem - car drove well - felt really good at above national speed limits, parked up idling fine, started it 4 days later (i know use a crap fiesta diesel to get to and from work) and it sounded like a bag of spanners being thrashed about a tin toolbox!

well it had snapped a conrod - as i found out it had lunched a con rod

So after the list of 4, and ford fair rapidly approaching i chose to shove the spare 8v twink in there i was going to use for something else (Coming Soon to a blog right here) so i took stock of what i needed

• New Clutch Kit - This one had a release bearing that was sqeaking and basically just needed replacing - and i thought i may as well get a full kit for when i do the 2.3 anyway
• Inlet Manifold Gasket - I store engines without any manifolds to make them take less space up in the shed
• Exhaust Manifold Gasket
• sump gasket
• Standard service items - Oil Filter (have loads of oil spare - remember the leaking one from below ) Spark plugs - coolant etc

Well surprisingly the company i went to did a brilliant job and got all of this in for me at 1 hours notice! - now all i needed was the sump off the old engine as the replacement was from a 4×4 i stripped - and the sumps are different. if i get the sump we would be up and running in 10 hours (ha!). so i stripped the engine bay down - lifted the engine out and o…k theres a 50p sized hole in the cylinder block - so No.3 conrod has snapped - nice effort - starts inspecting the rest of the engine - and find a fist sized hole in the other side of the block - on the joint with the sump, There goes my trip to ford fair

knowing i want this car on the road as quickly as possible i sort out another sump - from stoke - about a 30 mile detour from my journey home to hyde in the evening and so i dont particularly mind this, plus i get to have a car chat with phil again

Ok so i gets home - and cleans ups the rather filthy sump and fits it to the spare engine - and it goes in on the saturday - now all its waiting on is me replacing one metal plate between the gearbox and the engine (got to drop the gearbox ) and hook up the starter motor and the car will run again

Watch this space - i now have the spare cylinder head i needed of the old engine - am just looking for a spare 2.3 bottom end