28-08-2018, 08:09 PM
Thanks very much for your very detailed response, Craig.
I fully take on board your advice, and normally, I would do exactly that- however it appears to be much easier to take the engine out to sort the HG out and whilst it is out, it would make sense to renew things that are worn and potentially will need renewing in the next couple of years in order to save me some aggro down the line.
In my experience, at least with my old Clio dCi (which I put 100k miles on), after 120k I had a lot of noisy suspension components, so I just replaced the lot (£180 in parts and an afternoon in time, bargain!) and they caused me no grief with 172k on!
Funny you should mention about the clutch, it has literally just started slipping today, but only in 4th-5th up a very long hill pedal to the metal. Admittedly, I may have got a map from Steve at HDi tuning, but I think there's still life left in it!
I will definitely be replacing the crank pulley as this is making a whirring noise now, and I assume that is the original that came on the car, so it's way past due.
Everyone's been really helpful so far and I look forward to updating my project thread. If anyone wants to keep an eye on it, here is the link:
https://www.306oc.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=36996
I fully take on board your advice, and normally, I would do exactly that- however it appears to be much easier to take the engine out to sort the HG out and whilst it is out, it would make sense to renew things that are worn and potentially will need renewing in the next couple of years in order to save me some aggro down the line.
In my experience, at least with my old Clio dCi (which I put 100k miles on), after 120k I had a lot of noisy suspension components, so I just replaced the lot (£180 in parts and an afternoon in time, bargain!) and they caused me no grief with 172k on!
Funny you should mention about the clutch, it has literally just started slipping today, but only in 4th-5th up a very long hill pedal to the metal. Admittedly, I may have got a map from Steve at HDi tuning, but I think there's still life left in it!
I will definitely be replacing the crank pulley as this is making a whirring noise now, and I assume that is the original that came on the car, so it's way past due.
Everyone's been really helpful so far and I look forward to updating my project thread. If anyone wants to keep an eye on it, here is the link:
https://www.306oc.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=36996