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Chat => Sports, Hobbies & Motors => Topic started by: Binary Shadow on March 30, 2014, 21:22:09 PM
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So my dad calls me Tuesday and says the cars broken down, RAC guy says its dead basically not worth repairing (mk3 astra)
So I took a look today as I was over for mothers day.
Broke out the spanners and:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3756/13519507403_139cae1a7c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mAF1xe)
Thars your problem!
Snapped cambelt so off with the head:
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2938/13519421475_cdd345f76e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mAEyZH)
Tiny pistons on the 1.6
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3821/13519760364_a6f0f56fd8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mAGiJC)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/13519530083_523dfbbcaf_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mAF8hg)
Managed to bend 12 of the 16 valves!
Bought a head off ebay so next weekend 'we can rebuild it'!
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Nice. I'm dreading the day mine goes bang but I'm too cheap to do the pre-emptive fix. My old banger is expendable but so far its refusing to die, it's like it thinks its an 80s action movie hero.
/ Have been out bleeding brakes today - had a new master cylinder fitted a few weeks ago by someone and the pedal was hitting the floor and the car wasn't stopping :disappointed:
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I wish I had the knowledge, tools and the balls to do stuff like this for myself, but I don't and I'm too scared something like the above will happen when I'm doing 80 on the motorway and find I can't brake all of a sudden 'cos I fitted new pads/discs/calipers wrong :worried:
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Seen that many times, sh*t them 16 valves were, I've still got my 8 valve astra great engine without the extra valves.
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my dad used to own a mk2 astra back a few years now, it snapped the cambelt, threw a new belt on good as new, good ol non interference engines.
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my dad used to own a mk2 astra back a few years now, it snapped the cambelt, threw a new belt on good as new, good ol non interference engines.
I had an 88 Cavalier, put piston through the block, the engine emptied itself all over the road and i still managed to drive all the way home.
Shocking how good those old crap engines were :P
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Took me a day and a half this weekend but got the car back together and its all running perfectly :nana: pretty chuffed with that.