thought i'd help a mate out and this is what i found!!
thought i'd help a mate out and this is what i found!!
well thought i'd help a mate out he said he cooked the head gasket on his isuzu trooper 2.5td(don't normaly do homers of that size also it got brought to me on a transporter) all going well beasting along nicely well apart from a few of the turbo bolts snapping(i'll just drill them out) finally removed the head removed gasket and looked at the gasket nothing wrong looked at the head(prone to cracking between valves) head fine then it sank in i turned round and looked at the block well this is what i found :crying::crying:
how a cylinder should look
now check this out(look at the piston yip thats the rings you can see):crying:
now a close up look at the bore :crying::crying:
all 4 cylinders number 4 piston melted.
oh well time for a new engine!!!!!!! :cursing::cursing:
Ah how on earths he managed thathock:
approx £500 mate so not too bad its just going to be hard finding a good one oh well the search begins!!lol.(i'm really :crying: inside lol)
Andy-R. Ah how on earths he managed thathock:
Andy-R. Ah how on earths he managed thathock:
ye but then i just think of the ££££££££££££ need them to buy the charger next year.wish he had told me the noise the engine was making it got recovered to me and the boy said it was the head gasket but don't start it i ****** should have then i wouldn't have wasted 3 hours stripping it!!i could have had the engine out in 3 hours!!!:cursing:
Marsdendean Lol,tell me about it mate i got married last year 08/08/08 we saved up ourselfs for two years(sounds a long time but we pay out £2250 for the morgage and bills)it cost us just over £17,000 had to give my wife her ideal wedding.my wee sis got married the month before and it cost them just under £33,000 mental money!!!!
Im also looking for extra cash for my wedding next year. Will you be replacing the engine?
Marsdendean Lol,tell me about it mate i got married last year 08/08/08 we saved up ourselfs for two years(sounds a long time but we pay out £2250 for the morgage and bills)it cost us just over £17,000 had to give my wife her ideal wedding.my wee sis got married the month before and it cost them just under £33,000 mental money!!!!
Im also looking for extra cash for my wedding next year. Will you be replacing the engine?
nightmare bud!! i remember the sound when i changed the headgasket on my 205 gti some years ago then fired her up and it was a metal on metal squeek and stopped, d'oh!! good luck with it though duder.