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Old Jun 20, 2009 | 08:27 PM
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Hi guys n gals newbe ere btw

Right from the begining..

First off i stripped my fuel rail off, pulled out injectors cleaned them all up pulled red caps off the end of the injectors, soaked injectors in carbon cleaner over night. put everything back on Forgetting to lube / oil up the seats for the seals on the injectors, ( bad mistake )

Anyhows went started up the car fired up puff of blue smoke and god know what else, but all was fine good after a few taps of the ol GO pedal, Took it for a drive down the a303 near me, pulled like a train. thought great. left it at that. come to it the same night, car wudnt start got it started in the end but then it was mis firing or so i thought. . turned it off went to check the coil pack etc, but all sparks where there , after 3 mins the battery died also , so got new battery. car wont start with new battery. tried bump startin it but nothing soon as i release the cluth , car stops dead as if someone chucked a spanner in my engine

Eventually i found the problem injector on cyclinder 1, had its seal out of place . . so it was over fueling massively. . lack of wd40 does this thus in return causing to much compression in the engine to turn ! so much fact that it chucked out fuel from the chamber when plug was out and the petrol has seeped passed the rings as now there is petrol in the oil.

so today went and got another fuel rail with injectors £10 BARGIN . .

sucked all the over excess fuel out of cyclinder 1, fired it up first time it was running, but now ive got a HUGEEE knocking noise . . so bad its as if im driving a feista with the tappets going like mad as well as a load of steam / white smoke coming out the exhasut. as well as a fluid, water or petrol i dont know, i wud assume water.

it is knocking but wot it is i have no idea. as far as my mechanical mind lets me go ive come to 2 idea's .

1. its either piston rings have gone, YET there is compression there how much i dont know i dont have the tool. OR

2. its the head gasket thats gone. !

i moved it from one end of the road to outside my house booted it and there was a load of blue smoke even from start up there is . but still pulls like a train .. so much it wheel spinned as i planted down the pedal.

The car does have some trouble starting up and idles roughly but still no oil in the water, and no water in the oil, engine still blows out the oil fill hole as it should. everything else seems fine..

Any idea's peeps ? pleaseeeeeeeee lol

ive got 3 choices with the car, scrap it, which i dont wanna do, bodys mint on it, or repair it with limited funds, or blacktop zetec it instead. . . which will be slower. i know this as the focus its come out of is slower than my escort !

Not bad for my first post
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