Guess the engine.....and fault.
14-04-2009, 07:07 PM
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Guess the engine.....and fault.
As above but in my opinion its one and the same answer to both!
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Cossy YB dead No1
Its definitly not a ford engine.
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scooby with melted pistons lol
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Cant believe no one has mention em yet, it must be just me with a low opinion of there engineering.
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The head felll off?
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OK a clue, another identical engine...with troubles
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The head felll off?
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14-04-2009, 07:48 PM
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is it a 1.8 k series rover lump, thats got wet liner IIRC
14-04-2009, 07:49 PM
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Yes got there in the end. ecotec 2.2 failed, last year we had one in the garage ticking over roughly while we pondered over the engine it went CRACK and stopped dead,Snapped 2 conrods on tickover
Vaux's were good back in the day but i dont rate these ecotec units.
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Yes got there in the end. ecotec 2.2 failed, last year we had one in the garage ticking over roughly while we pondered over the engine it went CRACK and stopped dead,Snapped 2 conrods on tickover
Vaux's were good back in the day but i dont rate these ecotec units.
Well you do know what ecotec stands for dont you?
Every
Component
On
This
Engine's
Crap
14-04-2009, 08:02 PM
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i had a calibra with a 2.0 16v ecotec in it, it had done 88k with full vaux service history
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turn round a round about and went pop, piston number 1 developed a whole
a 'whole' what?
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i had a calibra with a 2.0 16v ecotec in it, it had done 88k with full vaux service history
Ive had 2 vaux's years ago and they were the xe powered ones and they were nippy but i vowed never to own one again after both suffered problems that wasn't worth fixing.....did ok out of the parts from them tho
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a 'whole' what?
opps, i mean hole
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14-04-2009, 07:49 PM
Vaux's were good back in the day but i dont rate these ecotec units.
