No special gasket, you can put in two O-rings for the openings or cut your own gasket if needed.

Lack of updates asking for some advices would imply that the problem is solved?

Oh yes! The Skoda is ruining the picture, though

Ed,

Replacing IAV - 5 min
Replacing VSS - 15 min (the battery and it's carrier have to go out)
Replacing MAF - 5 min
CV boot - that is a pig of a job as it is messy big time....

But the first 3 you can do on your own without problems...

raggamuffin wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:46 pm

Roughly £30 per 1% increase in bhp.

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A bargain at any price.

Ed

All that will increase with the mushroom in the picture is noise, I am affraid

IAV has to be somewhere on inlet manifold downstream of the throttle butterfly.

VSS is on top of gearbox and can't be relocated anywhere. But now that you have said this about cold start and not idleing at all, this is almost 100% IAV that is clogged and seized.

On a cold start, if I don't rev the engine it'll stall. When I let go of the accelerator coming up to junctions - it'll stall. It's a pain to be honest, and quite dangerous having to try and brake and accelerate whilst in neutral to keep the car going. OK, this is new diagnosis and this points to I...

On a side note - is there anywhere that sells headlight seals for the upper part of the headlight? Mine are sagging. J said it could be glued back on and one of the lights looks like it had been repaired in the past. Ed All is written. You just need to search for it.... https://www.projectpuma.com/...

raggamuffin wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:31 pm

I got the driveshaft seals just in case. I'll just ask him to fit them. Tempted to do the same for the VSS.

Check the wiring first! And connectors.

Ok, getting there. Slowly, but getting there!

Regarding cleaning: use brake cleaner and all the oil will be off in seconds. Regarding the engine issues, is your timing right? There is a special procedure for setting up the timing tensioner, is J aware of it? If he just bolted the tensioner without following the pin procedure (plenty of info her...

Well if it leaks while the car is stationary, it is not the breather. It would be spitting oil only on usage. Thsi would indicate the J diagnosed it correctly as failing driveshaft seals (what would imply to me that he was well aware they were od inadequate quality/condition in the first place). The...

J said he thought it might be the drive shaft seal. I recommended what you said too. Don't think it is a seal as the frontal area of gearbox is covered in oil. On top of the gearbox is the breather that enables the gearbox to 'breathe'. It shoud allow for the air to circulate, but not the oil. If i...

I would bet he put in the oil breather wrongly. The arrow has to point forward, i.e. in the direction of travel

If you are talking about the bottom ladder, use two stage torquing. 25 Nm all of them and then all of them to 50 Nm.

Hiya there, This the vehicle speed sensor (VSS): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-VSS-vehicle-speed-sensor-95BB-9E731-BA/183330522124?hash=item2aaf59c40c:g:VpAAAOSwiCRUcOzW I would just try firstly making sure the connectors are all the way in and the contact has been made, or the wire is not snapped...

Did you check the VSS?

The original was conceived as the car to beat clio Williams. The new one should compete with Capture.

I think that said it all

I haven't noticed earlier that you have put in new cams. Camshafts should bed in at highish revs. The engine should be kept at 2500 rpm for the first 15 minutes or so constantly. That way you have the highest possible oil pressure and enough oil supplied to the lobes and tappets. You should avoid id...

Honestly, this sounds to me like something misaligned in clutch-gearbox combo. The bearing would whine, not produce metalic sound like this. Has gearbox been taken apart? Is there enough oil in it? Also, what is the state of gearbox mount? Maybe it has sagged and the gearbox is touching something. I...

It was also the first chance I'd had to test the Whiteline rear ARB in the dry and what a difference it made, getting the car rotated was so much easier and the rear end was happy to comply with what ever steering input I made, no sliding around just grip, grip, grip and more grip! Glad it was such...

Nice car! Good job getting it!

Regarding the gearbox. Difficuilt selection of first: have you tried adjusting the selection rod? The proper proecdure is this: jack up the car. Put the gearbox in neutral. Detach the selection rod from the gearbox. Put in the gearbox selection rod that the handle selection mechanism bolts onto a sc...

Mate, tracking a parcel on DHL or whatever is not even remotely close to the coverage we are getting here...!

Breaking the engine in doesn't mean it will break down!