Wish Me Luck... Please!

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Well, I finally finished building my new engine today, so tomorrow is the day it get's aimed into the engine bay of the Anglia. I have had my fair share of problems with this engine and it is very nearly a year since I started the first build.

 

I just want things to go smoothly tomorrow

 

Here's me engine:

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=64762

[Guest MK1gaz]

good luck mate

[johnny_h]

If you need a hand mate, giz a shout. I'm off work and bored shitless.

[huxmk1estate]

good luck mate

[Vista]

Good luck mate

[mk2 stu]

she'll be reet, keep ya chin up lad!

[harris horse power]

good luck m8

[Nettles]

Good luck Mr Squarepants

[X-pack-Glyn]

goodluck jimbob..... but its green

[over_head_cam]

It will fall in the hole and be right on the button Jimbob

[surfingturnip]

good luck matey, all will go well

[Cookie]

It'll be alright on the night m8

[zetecmk2]

its an inanimate object....none of the problems will be personal

[Toby]

its an inanimate object....none of the problems will be personal

 

 

Good luck

[frenchy]

good luck mate

[marky4]

good luck mate, i'm sure it will be fine

[zetecmk2]

waiting for news!!!!!!

[H.P.E harry]

looks the nuts mate, good luck

[Burns]

good luck jimmybobby

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Well, either i'm cursed, the Shit Box is cursed, or my engine is cursed. Old engine came out lovely, so all I has to do was change my clutch assembly over. Yep, lovely, just tightening the pressure plate bolts up, and one King shears off

 

So, I am very close to ringing up some pikeys and getting the motor, engine and anything else Shit box related slung in the iron. I have King had enough. I knew I should have just got the Capri sorted instead... nearly a grand I have spent on this engine, and I am still having problems.

 

So there it sits. I wanted that job out of the way before I go into hospital... the one thing I asked for... but no! Bollix to the lot of it!

[escort21]

Calm it Jimbob...could of been worse...two could of sheared off

[Toby]

 

That's no big problem to fix!

 

Usually a broken stud can be teased round with a point sharpened on a broken drill shank. If not drill it, and grind a slow tapered square on the drill shank and tap it into the hole so it's gripping the broken bit by it's corners. It wont be tight as the pressure went off it as the head came off

 

Have you got a torque wrench cos I think I've seen a mention of a broken bolt before on your engine - sump bolt??? - not a critism but well worth getting if you dont have one - they're not dear and its always nice to know the bolts are done up to manufactures specs.

 

Good luck again mate - have a cuppa and go and have another look when you've calmed down - you know you love it really.

[Cookie]

I don't know if it's much help m8, but I've snapped those bolts loads of times on plastic rubbish and just left them snapped, just made sure the others were all tight, never had a problem

[Toby]

I don't know if it's much help m8, but I've snapped those bolts loads of times on plastic rubbish and just left them snapped, just made sure the others were all tight, never had a problem

 

Balance? If the heads missing?? Snap the head off the one opposite?

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Thanks lads.

 

Toby, yep that was me, a sump bolt snapped the other day. I am using a torque wrench for all of this, but the trouble is I think these bolts have been possibly been overtightened in the past by a bodger