well the latest update aint so good... last week she over heated, spat all its water out.
Recovered it home to investigate, filled it up with water and bled it out and everythings hunky dorey - had it ticking over for an hour with no issues.
Took it out for a test run a couple of days later, got to the end of the road and heard a "pop" then nothing, no compression not firing... S**T!
I'm thinking either the belts snapped although I have receipts from previous owner stating the belt was only done 30k ago or maybe head gasket? Luckily I was only doing about 10mph when it went so if the belt has gone I was hoping it hadn't done too much damage.
First port of call then - whip the timing case off to check the belt.
This is where I'm at currently - bottom pulley would not undo, had various breaker bars etc on it, tried some tool my neighbour lent me which is a bit like a breaker bar but instead of pushing/pulling the bar it sets it off at an angle n you clout it with a hammer (my kinda tool) his words were... this'll crack it... an hour later n we're both knackered n haven't budged it one bit.
Tried numerous other off the wall idea's that didn't really work so decided to pull the air con system out as it wasn't connected anyway and then out came the rad and the inter cooler. Pretty certain I know why it over heated :lol: Both are full of mud and currently in the shed waiting to be cleaned out!
Once I had all this out we slapped an air powered impact fun on it... 5 times we held it on there for til the compressor emptied itself and nothing - which is where I sit at the moment, head in hands, wondering how the F*** i'm gonna get this thing undone. To top it off, in our ham-fisted approach we managed to crack the timing cover - luckily I have a spare so its not a huge issue but it has shown that the pleb that owned it before hand certainly did have the belt replaced but not the tensioners! The belt has slipped 2 - 3 teeth hence the timing now being out.
Any idea's on how to undo said bold would be greatly appreciated - I'm concerned about heat as I don't wanna melt the oil seal, neighbour reckons he can get hold of a petrol impact gun - didn't even know they existed but thats the next port of call I spose...
(p.s. pictures to follow)