Monkfish
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Ok, so I recently put The Bitch back on the road and banged her round Llandow. She was spitting a little oil out of the rocker cover which I thought was down to the bolts not being done up quite tight enough, so I nipped them all up 1/4 turn once she'd got home and cooled down.
Anyway, she's been leaking oil out like the stuff wasn't wanted. It seems to be coming mostly from the turbo oil-feed pipe. I was hoping it had cracked, but I think now that the oil is being forced out of the gasket.
I did a compression test end of last week and the results aren't good. Before she had her headgasket and timing belt changed, she read 159, 157, 156, 159 (Cyl 1 to 4, in PSI). Now she's reading 120, 120, 118, 125. The variance across the 4 doesn't really suggest anything untoward, but they're all 40psi down on the previous reading. That combined with the oil pissing out from every orifice, the smokey rocker breather and significant blow-by out of the filler cap suggests to me that the piston rings are fucked.
My dilema is that it has always been my plan to put the car back on the road and sell her. I was going to sort her little niggles out, give her a damn good wash and polish, then put her up for sale for £3,250 and take offers (I'd be happy to get an optomistic near £3k for her). Trouble is, I'm not likely to get that sort of money for her in her current condition, which is where my dilema comes in.
Do I...
1) Flog her now with shot rings for whatever I can get for her (Probably £2.4-2.5k if I'm lucky)
2) Spend the money fixing her, which is likely to be a lot (New rings, big end bearings may as well be done whilst it's apart and new headgasket/headbolts again + labour) and put her up for sale as a faultless example for what I want to sell her for?
Keeping her is NOT an option.
Discuss.
Anyway, she's been leaking oil out like the stuff wasn't wanted. It seems to be coming mostly from the turbo oil-feed pipe. I was hoping it had cracked, but I think now that the oil is being forced out of the gasket.
I did a compression test end of last week and the results aren't good. Before she had her headgasket and timing belt changed, she read 159, 157, 156, 159 (Cyl 1 to 4, in PSI). Now she's reading 120, 120, 118, 125. The variance across the 4 doesn't really suggest anything untoward, but they're all 40psi down on the previous reading. That combined with the oil pissing out from every orifice, the smokey rocker breather and significant blow-by out of the filler cap suggests to me that the piston rings are fucked.
My dilema is that it has always been my plan to put the car back on the road and sell her. I was going to sort her little niggles out, give her a damn good wash and polish, then put her up for sale for £3,250 and take offers (I'd be happy to get an optomistic near £3k for her). Trouble is, I'm not likely to get that sort of money for her in her current condition, which is where my dilema comes in.
Do I...
1) Flog her now with shot rings for whatever I can get for her (Probably £2.4-2.5k if I'm lucky)
2) Spend the money fixing her, which is likely to be a lot (New rings, big end bearings may as well be done whilst it's apart and new headgasket/headbolts again + labour) and put her up for sale as a faultless example for what I want to sell her for?
Keeping her is NOT an option.
Discuss.
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