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[mini_mad69]

engine out



Broken


box off





new box on and engine back in



my new chain block



wheel bearing being changed



2 new yokos



How I left the garage








I took the diff off my new box tried to fit my new hardened diff pin, didn't have a bearing puller so fitted box as standard. Fitted engine back in with new box, also went to cardiff and got a chain block, and got 2 new tyres fitted.

Not bad progress I think. Should be done by lunch tomorrow.

Ben

[mini_mad69]

Ok I finished today, would have done it sooner but had other things to do on the car.
Soldered up a loads of broken wires, new wheel bearings, new ball joints.

Put it all back together and the old balljoints threads stripped. So all of that was sorted, all was well, engine flushed then decent oil put in.

Drove to uni and just coming into bath down a dual 2 wheel studs broke, one wheel nut flew off and the remaning nut loosened stopped no hard shoulder limped home on 2 nuts.

And my amp has blown, won't turn on and stinks.
So I may have a lovely new gearbox but can't drive my car unitl my new studs arrive and got no tunes!

Only got 1 pic as I was in such a rush to get things done:


Pretty much completed

Thanks go to my dad for doing 2 ball joints and wheel bearing and going to fetch bits and pieces.

[mini_mad69]

Vid with old gearbox day before it died!

You can hear how bad the wheel bearing is, it completly stank when we took it out, realy realy realy stank.



rgsnDOANeRg


anyone know what that 5.5k rpm noise is?

[Twincam]

Nice Haircut

Not sure what the noise is, although it does make it sound quite beefy!

[mini_mad69]

Had a haircut today you cheaky bugger ha ha ha

still don't like that noise though.

[Twincam]

Haha

Does she make the noise starting from 5.5RPM? (All the way to the top)

[mini_mad69]

Haha

Does she make the noise starting from 5.5RPM? (All the way to the top)

Kinda, the engine makes suck a loud scary noise i just change gear as it's so bad. SOoo much worse than in the video.

I kept going once, and it just keeps making the noise.

[mini_mad69]

Bad times, going to have to try re attatch that somehow, it's the speed bumps going into uni today that did it, knocked the screws out a bit, so it was waving around so I ripped it off.



Ben

[CMC]

Kinda, the engine makes suck a loud scary noise i just change gear as it's so bad. SOoo much worse than in the video. I kept going once, and it just keeps making the noise.

Sounds like valve bounce (the valve springs are to weak to close the valves at high rpm).

[mini_mad69]

Kinda, the engine makes suck a loud scary noise i just change gear as it's so bad. SOoo much worse than in the video. I kept going once, and it just keeps making the noise.

Sounds like valve bounce (the valve springs are to weak to close the valves at high rpm).

Double valve springs


Got a few people confused this one.

[jaydee]

now i cant see the vid atm..so u've got a 1275 engine with double springs, have u tried to reset tappets to 15 thou or 12 thou?

[mini_mad69]

now i cant see the vid atm..so u've got a 1275 engine with double springs, have u tried to reset tappets to 15 thou or 12 thou?

Ive got a cooper spi engine, with the injection stuff removed and a hif44.
MG metro cylinder head with double valve springs.

I set the clearances to the factory standard.

[jaydee]

Valve clearence for Mg metro head is 15 thou, i'd check the tappets. Then move to the usual electric things..u got leccy ingition?

[mini_mad69]

Valve clearence for Mg metro head is 15 thou, i'd check the tappets. Then move to the usual electric things..u got leccy ingition?

hmmm, it's a mg metro head but an SPI cam so im not sure what to set the clearances at, probably spi specs.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

spi spec ur valve clearance should be 0.027mm-0.030mm i set mine at 0.28 and this is running great with my metro engine

to be honest id look at the fan belt or the dizzy founds like it either advacing too far and pinking or the fan belts slapping about to me anywho or the engines leaning out at high revs

did u adjust the dizzy with the engine out ??