The diesel daily!

shhh!!

Haha knew you couldn't resist Matt! That 1.6td is supposed to be quite a beast.

Hope you take the cabby to the AGM Bert I would like to have a good old chat and admire your conversion

baller said

Hope you take the cabby to the AGM Bert I would like to have a good old chat and admire your conversion

maybe next year, no chance for this year, Bert is a quiality not quantity man

mAtt- said

baller said

Hope you take the cabby to the AGM Bert I would like to have a good old chat and admire your conversion

maybe next year, no chance for this year, Bert is a quiality not quantity man

cheers matttttt and baller it wont be this year,too many things on the go,next probably  8)
Bert

bought some new shoes…



but have this problem…



spacers purchased.    :mrgreen:

nice wheels mate look great, i think i'm going to get a set of these, my RM's take to much lookin after ..

mAtt

they look mint mate ! :-)

On and they don't touch the calipers and it only took 3mm spacers!

blans said

On and they don't touch the calipers and it only took 3mm spacers!

has someone knicked your garage and left the base?  
Bert

Nah bert it's opposite a parking bay at my brothers… makes a nice car stand though!

Nice daily, I'd love a clean mk1 diesel!

Been a good while since i've done an update on this as we have been getting on quite well …

nice new dash bulbs so I could see all what was happening again!



…. and finally got my speedo working after working round all the difficult problems first eventually checked the easiest thing to change .. and guess what!



cf_emoticons__BangHead:cf_emoticons__BangHead:… Anyway all these seem to be quite insignificant against my problem of not being able to keep ALL of my oil and water in my engine. I've been running the 1.5d head on the 1.6d block for quite a time now and all was good until I noticed that my rad hoses were getting pretty solid and could hear gurgling when I was switching the engine off.. Okay I thought so I must be boiling change stat and fanswitch and was still getting the same symptoms .. definately not good so used a kseal as a temporary fix until I could source a new (secondhand) head (thanks JB!!) and it seemed to work for about a month and then the symptoms have returned??

As a side I have also had this constant oil leak and had tried cork gaskets, rubber gaskets, just silicone and the cork and rubber with silicone and could just not get the (what I suspected) rocker to seal.. eventually I got hacked off with it and booked it into a garage for a proper mechanic to look at it.. and it seems the problem was  leak from the cam seal .. anyway it's all sorted and nice and dry on the timing end of the engine which TBH was a bit of a novelty as i'd never seen it looking in a non oily state since the 1.5 head went on. …. that was until tonight..



I've since cleaned it with brake cleaner so it's all clean again and ran the car but can't find an oil leak?? Ever get the feeling a car doesn't really like you? 

Sounds like you've had it tough! Can't believe how worn the speedo gear was either.

Well done with persevering    

Ouch that looks like a fairly hefty oil leak mate. You must be spending a few quid on oil keeping it topped up

Yeah I think i'm single handedly keeping the petro chemical industry in  business!!!!!!!

Got into work this morning and the blue ba**ard has done an "art attack" in the car park.



Anyway at least I found where the leak is coming from as it looks like it's the only seal that didn't get replaced on the timing end of the engine… the Crank I do love the little 1.6d but it really is giving my bank account a beating.

I popped into your work this morning looking for a section of pipe to bodge my exhaust ( having just put a AAZ in my caddy, was admiring your car good luck with the leak.

blans said

Yeah I think i'm single handedly keeping the petro chemical industry in  business!!!!!!!

Got into work this morning and the blue ba**ard has done an "art attack" in the car park.



Anyway at least I found where the leak is coming from as it looks like it's the only seal that didn't get replaced on the timing end of the engine… the Crank I do love the little 1.6d but it really is giving my bank account a beating.

She does look good though in that pic      

Hi,

I have a leaky cam cover too, and I was going to get a new seal. Do you reckon I should look at the cam seal too?
The 1500 has a breather to the block as well asa breather to the rocker cover, which could be pressurising it and pushing the oil out.

So have you found where the oil is coming from?

Robin

looking good blans