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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | headgasket blew again in the same place. this time there was no hole in the block or head, so after some cleaning up both surfaces was level enough to put in a new gasket. I have tightened the head down first to 75nm and then three separate times I loosened each nut 90 degrees and then tightened it to 85nm after a drive in the car and each time the nut would tighten a bit more. which is worrying.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I did some work on this car this weekend. fitted a new head gasket, fitted new stronger head studs and fitted a tap to take water out of the end opposite the thermostat. I moved the thermostat down inside the housing and I then connected the new tap to the old heater tap which is now on the radiator side of the thermostat this is then effectively a bypass hose. this is the only bypass now, I do not have the heater connected or anything, so it will be exciting to see how this works. in the mean time I took the clutch cover off to change what I thought was a knackered release bearing but it turned out to be the clutch pressure plate that had come apart. the problem is now that the clutch is stuck on the crankshaft and we have not yet been able to pull it off.      Edited by DotMatrix 4/9/2016 9:59 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | here is a picture of where the clutch had welded it self to the crankshaft. no wonder it was so difficult to get off  | ||
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 Expert Posts: 2029 Location: sittingbourne, kent | Most people would of given up by now with the number of issues you have been having, good on you for keeping at it  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | R100_vvc - 12/9/2016 11:14 PM Most people would of given up by now with the number of issues you have been having, good on you for keeping at it yes there have been a lot of trouble this year. haven't done one race this year without it breaking and yesterday when I pulled the dipstick it was all creamy so currently looking at that problem hoping to fix it before the last race of the season in the weekend. I think I will have to make a new block for the next season but hopefully not a new cylinderhead. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The engine is out again and everything looked great apart from the blown headgasket and the water in the cylinders which I allready knew about. The last two headgaskets have blown between the water way and cylinder number 4. this change in behaviour happened after I rerouted the water and fitted better headstuds and bolts.     | ||
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