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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 08:19 PM
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Default Found out why my discovery was running shit....

well i drove it round the garage earlyer and whipped the head off as it was running like a bag o hammers and started burning oil......

see if you can guess the problem......



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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 08:20 PM
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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 08:21 PM
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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 08:26 PM
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no damage to the piston or the bore's...it must have chucked it straight out the exhaust........its number 4 exhaust valve by the way...

just hope it not done any damage to the turbo i just paid £50 for it...lol
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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 08:29 PM
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i been driving it still for the last 2 weeks to but it was starting to smoke a bit to bad....lol

turns out when it was fireing it was fireing straight through the valve and melted the stem oil seal so the oil was pouring straight into the pot.....lol
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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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You blow cars up and I crash them, think we should give in mate.
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 06:02 AM
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cheap fix that is! result
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 06:41 AM
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lol that was my thought to.....i only paid £30.50 for a full topend gasket set off ebay....just need a valve now.
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 10:07 AM
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It's a ventilation hole!!
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 10:28 AM
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nice work

mines still outside with a buggered box mine someone the other night used it to give someone a bit of a headack blood all over the corner of my winch bumper and a puddle on the floor
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 04:48 PM
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wtf you been buying now? is the cossie sorted?
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan s1
nice work

mines still outside with a buggered box mine someone the other night used it to give someone a bit of a headack blood all over the corner of my winch bumper and a puddle on the floor
lol just got a refaced valve for £5 and full topend gasket set with valve oil seals for £30.50.....so cheap fix hopfully.....

hope ya bumper is ok and not dinted
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by cossiegreg1
wtf you been buying now? is the cossie sorted?
been getting a discovery to play in through the bad weather...
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same shits just happened to my cossie
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 05:00 PM
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ohh nightmare mate.....
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mines done the same as you though , no damage to bore/piston and back of turbo even looks fine, go figure
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 05:19 PM
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just the one valve....?

have you got another valve?
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Originally Posted by lawnsy
Originally Posted by Alan s1
nice work

mines still outside with a buggered box mine someone the other night used it to give someone a bit of a headack blood all over the corner of my winch bumper and a puddle on the floor
lol just got a refaced valve for £5 and full topend gasket set with valve oil seals for £30.50.....so cheap fix hopfully.....

hope ya bumper is ok and not dinted

Cheap fix then

Im guessing by the amount of blood someones head had a bit of a dent
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