I've been away with work just lately and my brother has been using my Series 2 turbo. Last week he took it to a local respecatable garage and they replaced the clutch and a new rear crank oil seal gasket. He topped it up with castrol oil and the dipstick was showing full.

To cut a long story short today he has been racing it on a track and obviosly been giving it some when the oil warning light came on. It has still been leaking and there was no oil left in it. Basically he has told me it is making a grating noise when you go to boot it and well as you can imagine is very poorly.

What sort of damage would of been done running out of oil, is it a new engine job and can he hold the garage that corrected the oil problem responsible???

ASAP to my questions would be greatly appreciated.

cheers Ryan

 

same thing happened to me buggered my crank and rods but you have to take into account piston/bore damage and the turbo bearings prob taken a bit of a kickin soz mate to bring the bad news you might be lucky though thats just my pesonal hexperience i suppose the garage is responsible really if it was leakin from their seal an not somewhere else?

 

Thankyou, I feel like crying

 

look on the bright side if it is that bad its time to drop in that 1900 youve bin longing for!

 

Ok. What sort of costs are we talking about mate.

cheers

 

obviously depends what spec you want i think specialised engines is about 1400 squid but id get it all checked out first no point splashin out if urs is salvagable well there is a point but depends how much of a speed freak you are!

 

ive got a power engineering blue print 1.6 in my lockup wanted to keep it as spare but might be tempted to sell if you find out urs is buggered and ur on a budget if its any good to ya