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[Closed] The Bangernomics/Shed Thread

nostrils · 2019-08-14T12:22:52Z

What you got? Care to share the trials and tribulations of banger/shed ownership? Or perhaps recount various triumphs in keeping old cheap cars on the road. I'll start. Last Saturday I bought a Citroen Berlingo with the non STW approved 1.6HDi engine for £800 after my Mazda 6 burnt out an exhaust valve.40 Miles later on a dual carriageway the dashboard lights up yelling at me to stop. Pulling into the nearest services (1/3 mile away thankfully) it transpires that the car has rapidly shed most of its coolant. Managed to limp home on a new bottle of coolant. This is the leak as I was backing it up onto the driveway...Turns out that the airbox has been rattling on its mountings and chafing the coolant pipe underneath...Can you replace just that bit of pipe? Nope, £46 for the whole assembly. Oh well should be an easy enough fix. Lets hear 'em!

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nostrils

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Got the cylinder head off my Mazda6 earlier:
https://flic.kr/p/2hcq8bF
One of the head bolts was pretty chewed up so I suspect someone has had the head off before.

Upon inspection, my suspicion about a burnt out valve was proven correct:
https://flic.kr/p/2hcrRSD

Should I replace all the valves in the head or just the two exhaust valves in the problematic cylinder? Are new valve springs also required?

Posted : 08/09/2019 6:50 pm

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