well, bad news ...
ill be off the road for some time now,
i was driiving home from eds thursday nite, cruising along at 80, when it started to splutter and make popping noises from the exhaust, then had very little acceleration,
this was a about 10:30pm, i called RAC, they come 45mins later, but due to the cover bill got for us he coould only take me 10 miles, bearing in mind i was stuck just before J7 on the M25!!!
he took me to J7 and did a few checks,
he removed all the plugs, in piston No 1 ive never seen a plug like it in my life! the ceramic tip and 'L' shape pickup were completly gone! melted! the rest are perfect, and could see oil slowly filling up the No 1 piston too its only the number 1 cylinder that has any probs too ????
RAC wanted £150 pounds to get a truck to come out to take me home but i am totaly skint at the mo so that was a no ,
so fuck it i drove it home on 3 cylinders, i know i should not have but i did, i was soo upset and dissapointed i actually cried abit on the way home
got home at 2am in the end!!
drove it too TK engineering friday morinng, gave them the keys and told them to fix it grrrrrr,
i rang them later in the day for being a tad rude with them :/ and to find out what was up,
so yes cylinders 2,3,4 are fine just 1 is fucked its got super super hot and melted the plug and piston(side), also there is very little compresion as you can hera from the rocker cover breather a loud wooooooshing noise, so the plug particals have messed up the bpiston rings and lost compresion,
they say it may be due too the boost but i if it was due to too much air/running lean then it would happen on all of them,
TK engineering think it may be a faulty injector GTART think so too but cant put it all on that untill i get them flow tested, which GTART are doing for free.
this is why its confusing as its only No 1 piston that is fucked, and there is a good chance the plug tips possibly mashed up the exhaust turbine on the turbo too
ooooh well
im off the road till the end off the year now so doubt ill be coming too many meets as its gonna cost at least 2k to repair
new pistons, (if the bore is scored ill have to bore it out but means ill have to do the same with others too) turbo repair, thicker/new head gasket, all new injectors, and all other parts for yet another rebuild!!!
so it back to my pushbike
oh and itll be resprayed too and have a whole new fresh look
im going to be canceling my insurance as that was just under 2k!! so together with petrol money i should be able to save up enough pretty quickly,
it was good while it lasted anyway, as most of you will know,
ill be off the road for some time now,
i was driiving home from eds thursday nite, cruising along at 80, when it started to splutter and make popping noises from the exhaust, then had very little acceleration,
this was a about 10:30pm, i called RAC, they come 45mins later, but due to the cover bill got for us he coould only take me 10 miles, bearing in mind i was stuck just before J7 on the M25!!!
he took me to J7 and did a few checks,
he removed all the plugs, in piston No 1 ive never seen a plug like it in my life! the ceramic tip and 'L' shape pickup were completly gone! melted! the rest are perfect, and could see oil slowly filling up the No 1 piston too
its only the number 1 cylinder that has any probs too ???? RAC wanted £150 pounds to get a truck to come out to take me home but i am totaly skint at the mo so that was a no ,
so fuck it i drove it home on 3 cylinders, i know i should not have but i did, i was soo upset and dissapointed i actually cried abit on the way home
got home at 2am in the end!!
drove it too TK engineering friday morinng, gave them the keys and told them to fix it grrrrrr,
i rang them later in the day for being a tad rude with them :/ and to find out what was up,
so yes cylinders 2,3,4 are fine just 1 is fucked
its got super super hot and melted the plug and piston(side), also there is very little compresion as you can hera from the rocker cover breather a loud wooooooshing noise, so the plug particals have messed up the bpiston rings and lost compresion, they say it may be due too the boost but i if it was due to too much air/running lean then it would happen on all of them,
TK engineering think it may be a faulty injector GTART think so too but cant put it all on that untill i get them flow tested, which GTART are doing for free.
this is why its confusing as its only No 1 piston that is fucked, and there is a good chance the plug tips possibly mashed up the exhaust turbine on the turbo too
ooooh well
im off the road till the end off the year now so doubt ill be coming too many meets as its gonna cost at least 2k to repair
new pistons, (if the bore is scored ill have to bore it out but means ill have to do the same with others too
) turbo repair, thicker/new head gasket, all new injectors, and all other parts for yet another rebuild!!!so it back to my pushbike
oh and itll be resprayed too and have a whole new fresh look
im going to be canceling my insurance as that was just under 2k!! so together with petrol money i should be able to save up enough pretty quickly,
it was good while it lasted anyway, as most of you will know,
