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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 01:42 PM
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Just spent about 3 hours this morning checking everything again, hoses in the right place, fuel lines connected so on and so forth.

Had the inlet manifold off, another gasket on it put it all back together. Had the battery charged up all night last night.

Put it in, cranked it over and I though, this should do it.

PHITSH!!!!!

Cloud of white smoke that smells like semi burnt fuel sprayed out from the head

Gasket gone again

It's a brand new gasket, and the manifold is so tightly put on I doubt I'm ever going to get it off again.

So a few more goes.

PHITSH!!!!! five more times and then on the sixth go.

it started!

Turned over for about 30seconds at 2k then the revs dropped and dropped untill it died.

So sod it, taking it to the garage when I get paid and let them sort it, fed up with tinkering

You guys have any ideas? Dont wanna spend another £200 on it
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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 02:15 PM
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scrap that piece of shit its been a right money pit time to get another runaround
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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 02:27 PM
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Yeah I would mate, but can't get the money together atm for a decent runabout, need to do something with it
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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 02:32 PM
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youll swaste more money trying to fix it, trust me
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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 02:34 PM
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stu just buy another couple of hundered pound banger at the end of the month fuck the body just get something thats mechanicaly sound ps my spellings shocking
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