09-10-2012, 10:00 AM
(09-10-2012, 09:56 AM)Ben Wrote: I had to take my pistons back out and turn some of the rods round the other day after looking in the haynes. The shell cut out side of the rods should be at the front of the engine, same side as the pattern on the piston..
That's on standard rods, apparently hdi rods need to be the other way round.
I think its spun a shell because it started tapping when I was driving along, slowed down to pull into a layby and it turned into a bad knock, by the time I had stopped it would barely even tick over. And there was plenty of smoke coming from the filler tube to..