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[lew]

i went to a mates farm the other day to get some sheet steel to weld my clubby up , got ther and my mate said do you want one of these the 1 was a fiesta and the other was a rover 400 with (head gasket gone) so i said yer il have it off ya i gave him 50 quid ,

sunday took the cylinder head off and found that there is a big hole in the piston so im guna put a new egine in as i found loads for bout 100 quid,

what you think


i think the piston photo looks like thomas thetank engine lol

[marc]

Owned a couple of these noe, first was a 1.4 16v, i also replaced the engine as the head gasket went, stripped it down in 20mins at dinner time and the last head bolt snapped the tip off! Managed to get a low mileage (less than 20,000 miles) rover 25 engine that i had to swap cams etc with my original engine for the rotor arm drive etc. Last was a diesel, brilliant car, pretty quick, very reliable and good mpg, towed pretty good as well.


Becareful if you take the engine and box out as a whole, i snapped the speedo drive off putting it all back in! Never seen a psiton go on a 'k' series and i've been working with them for 5 1/2 years!

Absolute bargain for £50! Fix it and you'll get a good £700 easy.

[Bungle]

not a mini but at least it from the same family

[Bean]

Woah - what about the Landy?!




(£50 bargain tho! )

[lew]

got that aswell but cus the landy is used buy my mum and dad still i thought if i buy ths and i go away for a weekend they have a car to drive round in lol

[lew]

anouther car has come to me now lol, i bought a vw golf mk3 van , but this has a engine and 1 owner from new witch is my dads uncle, bit of rust i have to sort out but it has mot, brand new tyres plus alloys, its a 1.9 diesel injection

[Pie]

What you doing with that then Lew??

A technictian at work is after a 1.9van.

Heard you sold the rover to sparky, whos gonna stick a new engine in it and stick her on ebay.

[marc]

PS. the rover isnt comfy to sleep in! aaaaa drag wars... Lol

[Pie]

PS. the rover isnt comfy to sleep in! aaaaa drag wars... Lol

LMAO i remember that. we were stoofd next to the bbq and i was like "You crazy fool!" then we heard an almighty "SPLOOSH", we all look round to see Bounce in the paddling pool with a tin of John smiths at 7am!!

[marc]

lol, straight out of bed and into the pool!! Crazy fool! No wonder he has a reputation!

[lew]

theres nuffin rong with the van it was a bargain , all thats rong is the imobiliser works wen it wants 2 and the ignition doesnt turn off sometimes ,

[Retro_10s]

those are quite important really mate

[lew]

lol replaced imobiliser and ignition , works fine now