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Just ask Lee and his steam driven Vito (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQnssnC9Ls)
Pistol Pete
04-05-09, 10:44 PM
Hmmm, broken?!! lol
General Baxter
04-05-09, 10:45 PM
chew chew lol
Omg, how on earths he do that has he had it on a trackday? lol
That's awesome lol due for a part ex? :D
so after 3 times to the moon and back Lee gets asked to move it and brakes it.
Class.
blue_peg_16v
04-05-09, 11:06 PM
lmao no road tax on steam powered cars hes just being tight lol
Fapping thing popped a glow plug out because the muppet who put them in god knows how many miles ago cross threaded one.
Its done 390K by the way lol New head FTW :)
nice sig lee.....
lol at head deth, you got one for it? i know of one in a breakers....
novaguy08
05-05-09, 01:05 PM
erm........ ooops!! how the hell did someone cross thread a glow plug?!?! i only ever cross threaded 1 spark plug before, and that was because 1 the car was getting cut in half and used as a fart about thing at college and 2 i couldnt give a rats ass at the time as the engine was near enough knackered (it was a fiesta with HUGE head gasket failure & im pretty sure that the engine was busy eating itself!)
Search me. They obviously managed to get it to stay in just enough for 150k lol. As soon as I started undoing it, I knew it was fubared, and it had a load of ally in the threads. Didnt even bother to put the new one in, just stoked the boiler and parked it up.
Sloth, CBA with it at the mo, when ive got less to do ill look for another head and probably turn it into a camper :) If I stack my other Vito, i might have a doner vehicle anyway.
The ML parked in front of it in that vid has a 4.2 V8, and Mark wont let me put it in the V class :(
Welsh Dan
05-05-09, 02:48 PM
If the head is FUBAR anyway, why don't you try tigging an alu cylinder into the hole?
bodgetastic, make me remember the frontera lol
The ML parked in front of it in that vid has a 4.2 V8, and Mark wont let me put it in the V class :(
Put it in a nova lol
id just weld the hole up and fit 3 glows. it'll still start, my uncles tranny did with 2....
id just weld the hole up and fit 3 glows. it'll still start, my uncles tranny did with 2....
It started and ran with 3 and a hole. Did you not see the video?
yes but i mean as a perm bodge minus the smoke dude. i canny see it passing an mot smoke test, lmao!
novaguy08
06-05-09, 12:58 AM
smoke tests only the stuff coming out the exhaust, and i see worse pass a smoke test :D
Aye sloth, it did cross my mind. These merc engines will start from cold with no fapping plugs lol
But it has other issues as well, namely when it gets warm it sometimes decides it doesnt want to start and you have to wait half hour for it to decide to go again. Ive been trying to fix it for six months, doing the glowplugs was a complete stab in the dark seeing as ive changed pretty much everything else. Im actually glad I finished it off properly lol
It will get a loony petrol engine if I have my way :) Just need to convince Mark
Pour super unleaded in the spare hole and fire it over then lol
now that i wanna see!!!! vids plz.
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