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[davo100]

hi everyone just looking for some advice i recently bought a 1340 rally engine with drop gears and a straight cut box had a few probs at the start but myself and my father sorted them so i got in contact with a local rolling road took it up there, he first forced air into each cylinder and just my luck cylinder number 2 wasnt holding the pressure of 90 psi he found out it was comeing out of the inlet valve on chamber 2 so we agreed a price and he stripped all the valves and sent it away for skimming also a regrind on all the seats, anyway a week passed and he phoned to say its ready picked it up it drove sweet as a nut the journey was roughly 25 miles parked the car in the garage took it out the next day got 2 miles down the road with my son in the car and it dropped a valve on cylinder 2 which as you can imagine smashed the piston and also damaged the roller rockers when we took the head of we found the collets were working there way off, it has the alluminium flat caps ontop of the double springs, i have been in touch with the guy who done the work and he is trying to say he guarantees his work but not the parts which he put back on, he sais he is not paying for a new block or a head as this is a common fault with the alluminium top caps, the engine was running fine before i took it up there and he messed with it, so im looking for a bit of advice as what to do about him also what can i do with the engine, i seriously think he is to blame, because how can all the collets slowly work there way off. hope someone got some views on this as im totally gutted, cheers

[Jordie]

Contact trading standards for advice, they will really open your eyes on things like this.

Jordie

[not for sale sorry]

or citizens advice they could proberly point you in the right direction, help someone i no out big time, good luck

Edited by not for sale sorry, 04 November 2008 - 05:04 PM.