Right the heads off and did the compresion test before
cylinder1 100psi
2 50
3 150
4 150

but at the top of the piston stroke 2 and 3 have a fair bit of movement but 1 and 4 dont now i thought it would be 1 and 2 with the readings any ideas any 1

 

When you say movement what do you mean - Up and Down ??
Is it not travelling to the top of the bore ??

 

Have you identified whats made the compression low yet?

Could be valves, gasket, rings/worn/damaged bores, cracked block/head (unlucky if its that )

 

they go to the top of the bore and move side to side thats in two and three not in one and two like i thought it would be with the compression test i would put some pics on but it keeps saying they are too big and i dont know how to shrink them if anyone wants to send me their email address i will send them a video to show them what it is doin.
bottom of head looks ok inside at top looks like its had some welding done

 

You got msn? Add me to it if you have!

i can host the pictures for you if you like or shrink them

 

i aint got msn but i will sort it out tomorrow

 

(Get MSN )

 

lol

 

Its free after all (duno what i'd do without it )

 

Whats the best thing to clean the crude and bits of gasket of the head and how do i know if it needs skimming

 

To clean the head up use a fine emery cloth (it's like sandpaper but it's used for metalwork) & some wd40 ......

If you have solid lumps of gasket on the face then gently use a stanley blade or scrapper BUT it must done carefully as not to pit any of the face.

 

nice 1 cheers

 

Khanny mate, i'd get it down to your local engineering place they will usually tell you if it needs a skim or not for free, its always best to have a very light skim doen to make sure it seals up well.

 

Ye will do what actually is a skim do trhey take the alloy of or put alloy on?

 

They just take off/skim a VERY,VERY small amount off the bottom of the head

 

Ah right cheers they must use really presice tools then do i have to clean it all up first and remove all the valves and things

 

It would probably make there life easyer if you did give it a clean off if it's that dirty but you dont need to take the valves out or any thing

 

They machine it on a latha Khanny

theres a few different ways of doing it, fly cutting apparently gives the best finish but if the head is very corroded it can take small chunks out apparently.

Clean if off as suggested, i usually find its stuck to the block though (everyone elses always seem to come off with no mess )

 

It came of easy was really lose the head bolts werent all that tight either

 

How tight are we talking?

Did you undo them with a ratchet?

 

Ye but they wernt that tight i thought they would have been a lot tighter

 

They should of been fairly tight with a ratchet.......

Still we'll make sure they get torqued right this time round

 

Ye heres hoping

 

Ye of little faith

 

Took the h3ead today and didnt even need skimming the guy said defo not the headgasket so fezzy bottom putting on tommoro fingers crossed all

 

Are you converting to EFI while your there?

 

I doubt that very much

 

M8 the only thing i want this to do now is start, run, and boost

 

Fair enough.......does this bottom end have the EFI flywheel and crank position sensor fitted?

 

Was told to take the flywheel of mine on to the fezzy bottom all it came with is alternator and oil feed, i know i goty to change the oil feed and the inlet oil feed but anything else i should be looking at cheers

 

Ah right, yours will be fine. Just would of been nice if you had the EFI flywheel on there, because it would make your life VERY easy if you decided you wanted to go EFI soon

 

ye i do hyave the fezzy flywheel

 

dont i need loads of other stuff to convert to efi tho like inlet mani ect

 

Right then.........make sure you fit that fez flywheel (check if its got timing marks in the back)

And is the aluminium crank sensor holder bolted onto the block. Just fit them for now, if you decide to go EFI that is the hardest part of it so you will be WELL ahead of the game

 

Was told to swap it for the escort 1 something to do with timing or crank sensor or something like that cant quite remember....and what am i looking 4 for the aluminium crank sensor,
also if i do keep the fezzy 1 on do i need to do anything else or just bolt straight to the gear box, and is there anyway to tell if the bottom end is shagged the pistons all move freely tutrning the flywheel and at the tdc of every piston theres no rocking they even look quite new the piston tops

 

Hmmmmm not sure why they would of told u that?

Have you got a digital camera?

 

ye m8 also the guy at the auto engineers sayed the welding in the head was from some1 opening up oil ways so the oil droped straight to the sump kweeping it out of the head, what you not sure about

 

What welding is that mate?

Well i was going to get you take a couple of pictures for me. If you've got a FRST flywheel you would be INSANE not to fit

 

i will do you7 some pics m8 send me your email addy in a pm n il send you them says there to big when i try put them on here

 

my email address is on the msn button mate

Just out of interest why dont you download MSN?