The Old XUD DervBus Thread!

[darrenjlobb]

Right...so....finished work this morning, had to go and drop someones computer back, so was driving there, and driving back...car suddenly starts banging / knocking / smoking and sounding bad, so turned off (was driving steady as steady, totally off boost turning a junction...) so had to get a tow home (again)..

Anyway, so got it home and started to investigate...first check as always on these engines is cambelt, and sure enough everything was out of time, but belt appears fine, and tension is perfect, wtf i thought...

So started to release it to put it back, and noticed one of the bolts on the side of the tensioner had managed to undo itself (done up just like i do every other time normally) and fallen off... So at this point, I instantly knew what had happened, bolt fell off, dropped to bottom, and gone around the crank pulley, slipping a few teeth in the process....

Next thing, valves....see the vernier has no locking hole, so there's no way to see how many teeth it slipped, so im currently preying its not bent valves...if it has, car is heading for a scrapyard as I haven't got the time for it any more...

Anyway, I am continuing for now under the assumption that they SHOULD be ok.... he hopes...

So i thought while half of it was apart, I would try and address the small water leak around the back of the block...well well, what a ballache this has turned out to be, a simple water leak as resulted in full bay strip out, manifolds off, turbo off, to remove them stupid metal pipes, as one has been crushed and split, must have caught it putting the engine....so the tidy, finished engine bay, has ended up all ripped out, and half the engine apart...really VERY depressing

Anyway, few pics of the state of it now Epic fail