I've just been on a test drive and somethings blown up. It was fine for 10mins, went to get fuel, 25 fucking pounds worth.
Then got to my m8s house and as I put it in reverse to park BANG!
Now got no gears, oil everywhere but weirdly the engine oil dipstick is dry.
Now waiting for a mate to pick me up with a tow rope

 

gutted for you,not good

 

For god sake mate these old fords always throw it back in ya face!!

 

Bad luck

I was looking forward to seeing this on Sunday as well

Steve

 

fuckin hell. is everyones cars blowing up because of central day???

feel for you mate, hope its not too costly to fix

 

update

i got it home and in the garage and of course started to strip it to find out whats wrong.

theres oil absolutely everywhere, and ive just repainted everything. lol

the oil problem is
cam cover gasket has blown between the cams and the spark plugs, filled the spark plug holes/lead up with oil and then the oils made its way out the little breather holes that are at the front and the back,
down the engine and at the front onto the cambelt, flicking it everywhere
out the back its got onto the clutch/flywheel/driveshafts and gone everywhere.

i didnt use a genuine ford gasket, i used a rubber gasket instaed of the paper one,
i think that when i made positive boost of about 1.5bar for 20secs, the crankcase pressure must have blown the gasket out.

so the covers off, i will try and get a new gasket locally tomorow or order a genuine 1 off mattlewis/woodford and fit that asap.



gearbox wise,
i put the box in gear by hand, turned the engine over by hand AND....
the car moves, tried 3rd and reverse, both work fine.
i think that oil might have got on the clutch stopping it from working properly, or a hydraulic problem.
will investigate that properly tomorow.

gotta have faith, i might still get there yet. cutting it fine tho, still gotta get some decent local test miles on it, and get to an mot garage, then tax it by sat.

if not i will be coming up in the trusty old M3 GT

 

good news then kind of! could have been a lot worse. fingers crossed you make it

 

what made the bang then?

or is it not as bad a bang as i'm thinking?

 

hope you get it sorted

 

i think the bang was when it popped out of reverse when i was parking.
i dunno if there was a hydraulic problem with the system or oil on the clutch?
it popped out of gear, has happened before if its not been put totally in gear properly.
no idea why i couldnt get it back into gear again.
will look into it tomorow night

 

I bought one of the rubber one years ago and fucking hated it!!! when i clamped it down the ends under the cam seals kept squashing out!!! was a good idea in principle but personally didnt get on with it. ended up with a cometic one.

If ur desperate for a gasket mate so u can get to central day ive got a genuine ford one in the garage at my parents, welcome to have that then just replace it when u get hold of another one. I work in Woking so could drop it off on thurs evening.

 

Sorry to hear it mate Hope you get it done in time for Central day

 

yea tone i bought the rubber 1 thinking it would be better,
i will ring the company i bought the gasket from, they do a ally 1 coated in rubber/foam.
will tell them what happened and see if they offer me a different 1.
if not i will order 1.
thanks for the offer. if i dont get any joy getting a new 1 i will take you up on that.

after everything ive done getting it reay for sunday, i cant miss it for this. lol

 

Fingers crossed you can fix it for central day. Hope it you get it sorted.

 

yep i know how u feel my oil pump just failed last week and my bottom end is shot now i got to rebuild the engine again grrrr

 

Stu if you get stuck and need some help give us a call




Cheers

 

Just spoke to ap racing, they say the clutch fault could b the oil made the centre plate stick to the flywheel, so might just need to be freed off, but might need to be removed and cleaned with brake cleaner.
So will take a look at that tonight.

Does that sound right?

And I spoke to the firm that made the cam cover gasket, they offered me a STD paper 1 for free or pay the extra couple of quid for their version of the cometic gasket, a thin layer of steel coated with foam/rubber.
Being delivered to me tomorow.

So there's hope for me yet.

Thanks for the offer dave, I'll let u know if I get stuck.

 

see that black bit between the cams, well under that oil is the spark plugs. lol



well now the cleanup begins

 

i had the rubber one and as you tighten it it squashes out as said, use cometic now and had no problems.

pete

 

bloomin heck, how long ago did you change the oil?? its blacker than the dark night

 

Guessing just trick of the camera compounded with the oil being a little discoloured making it look totally black sure that is not the case...well I Hope it isn't

 

that oils prob only done 1000miles if that

its gunna get changed now anyway. lol

 

Flippin heck that alot of oil!

Best of luck with it mate.

 

That's going to take some soaking up! What is the best way of getting the oil out of the spark plug bores?

 

Whats your breather setup like?

Wonder why the crankcase pressure rose so much to blow the gasket out and fill all 4 plug holes!

fingers crossed its nothing majour

 

hope this dont get removed as trading but more as geniune help, we have the gaskets in stock mate and mot if you need one sharpish, in peterborough, just shout if you need any help

jim

 

When it happend to me i used rags/sponge to mop it up, its a nightmare

 

Get a big syringe and draw it out.

Steve

 

just came in for dinner so thought id do an update. lol


its all cleaned up,
i just used blue paper towel, and once it was as clean as i could get it i kept diluting it with degreaser till it was all gone.

jimbo, thanks for the offer but i have 1 on its way to me, should be here tomorow.


and






ive taken the clutch out already. lol
it looks quite clean but im gunna give it a clean up anyway and start to put it back together now.
i WILL make it on sunday. lol

 

no probs mate glad your getting it sorted

 

The cometic style ones he does i have on my engine mate and seem pretty good!!! i bought a set when i built mine up, and their alot cheaper than cometic ones!! im surprised he still sells the nitrile rubber ones as surely a fair few people have had it happen

Glad ur getting it sorted thou, any probs let me know mate like i say have a genuine one sitting in the garage

 

glad is cleaned up well.

hope it all works spot on when you put her back together.

 

thats me done for the night
found a few problems.
the spline on the clutch centre plate was all burred up, so i had to file that down so it was all clean.

also i have a small metal adaptor that goes in the back of the crank where the pilot bearing goes, that adapts the renault un1 box to fit.
that had clearance probs so ive grinded that down for more room.

then sanded and cleaned the clutch cover, plate and flywheel.

now the clutch and box are all back in and bolted up.

tomorow i will get the hydraulics back in and bled, exhaust back on, and as long as the gasket turns up i will do the camcover and get it back out for another test drive.


and i have a baileys breather. never had a problem on a std cam cover gasket.

 

check the rocker cover isnt warped or been sanded down too much in one place, i have had customers cars where the monkeys have concentrated rubbing in one place to get rid of discoloured metal and made the rockercovers look like the pennines lol!

dont tighten it down too hard as you will damage the gasket, and i always use a small ammount of GOOD sealer, none of the "silicone" shit though.


Sean.

 

Maybe give the breather a check over?

If its been sat a while, some condensation might have occured and mixed with the oil to form a bit of sludge, might be the odd blockage around...

 

top progress mate. I hope you can get it all sorted for the weekend.

 

Good ideas guys, I'll check them tonight. If the breather was blocked wouldn't it smoke tho? Ill check it anyway.

Now fingers crossed the gasket turns up today.

 

Great progress, hope to see you at Central Day

Steve

 

Pm me the firm as i got two of these before the same thing happened

 

New gaskets been delivered so I can crack on tonight. All being well it shouldb driveable by the end of the night.
That leaves tomorow night for a re test drive
then afterwork on Saturday go for an mot.


So there's still a chance I might make it on sun.