Never heard of this one B4

[oldgit]

Has anyone come across this one.
Mini miss fireing and coughing .Sounds about right for one of our little beasts ;D Ign and carb checked seemed in ordear
Umm poss head gasket a few cry
No says this guy ( who knows about minis ) Its the engine F###d and sets about putting a whole new engine in as that will be quicker cheeper and easier

Quicker = not having to order any parts

Cheaper = not having to buy said parts ( as belonged to someone else )

Easier = make everyone feel guilty and obliged to help

Anyway after 4 days slog from some and bodge and bodge and bodge from another, new engine in and running
Test drive and runs a few 100 yds great THEN
because job was a final bodge, disaster oil everywhere
a bolt wedged between subframe and gearbox had split caseing Oh well another lump bites the dust

After nearly a week from start of missfire a BRIGHT YOUNG LAD ;D decides to whip off the head from original engine that had missfire and inspect.
Yep you got it HEAD GASKET BLOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why O Why do an engine change for the sake of a head gasket !!!

My self and a few other's Know the answer BUT WHY DO YOU THINK ?? please leave your answers here

Please note NO NAMES have been or should be posted

[roblee]

head gaskets arnt even that hard to replace. also an excuse to grind valves n clean up the cylinder head.(saying this i been doin this to my car for the last 3 weeks and its still not all put back together)

[Deleted]

It was me.

Here we go, ;D

Never claimed to be an expert on minis, Didnt think it was head gasket as was replaced not that long ago

wasent quicker took a week to bodge

Parts were ordered and paid for by me, not the owner

Ask for help wasent to make peeps feel guilty or obliged

dont know if casing is split as havent investigatd yet

Engine change was on the cards at some point anyway

Darren certified weekemd mechanic - no sorry bodger

[brainwashed]

hi tony here

right here we go ;D
yes mankey is my mini yes the metro engine was also mine

and yes maybe i am to soft for my own good but i see daz as a friend and i like to help friends where i can

we should have looked down every avenue ie: the head-gasket.
but we did not why not i don't know but like people say you learn by your mistakes

daz did pay for the spare parts for the change over which he could not afford head gasket would have been cheaper which has been pointed out to us enough said.

it was a job a weekend mechanic and an OLD BOY like myself should have not rushed we know that now

yes i was angry and still am but hey life's to short for all that maybe my name should be badger now ;D ;D Hee hee bodger and badger........... ;D

The engine will be taken out again and the damage will be assessed and hopefully repaired. ;D Mankey will ride again. maybe in a different form' myself and a few other EDMC members have plans for next season might be something on the members section at a later date. :-

EDMC has introduced Rachel and myself to a new bunch of friends with the same interest's other than just drinking, which is all we ever did before. Mini's are great fun, EDMC is great fun and our weekends away (with the odd half a larger thrown in) are great fun.

mistakes have been made (maybe bodger and badger should have got Rachel to do the work she's now the expert in this house ;D ) but hey they are mini's, more mistakes will be made and not just by daz and myself.

lessons have been learned and maybe we will both learn to walk before we run next time

all friends again ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Rachel]

Finally managed to take Manky's engine out today and discovered the cause of the oil slick on the drive

There is a pressure valve on the A+ engine that isn't on the A series and this got caught and broken on the subframe

Here is the damaged valve



This is a comparison of the A series followed by the A+





Does anyone know if I can do a direct swap between the A and A+ bits .........I have removed both and they appear to be the same size/shape etc.... just one has the valve

[Simon1275mpi]

Old bill knew about this, its swappable, the valve reroutes the oil until the engine is up to running temperature for a faster warm up in cold climates.

Bill didn't try it though, he just cut a hole in the sub frame for it.

Try Daz (Shortie BMC) as he has a couple of auto box's and plenty of experience.

[Rachel]

I have swapped them over and the engine is back where it belongs............just everything else to put back now ;D

[Darren Divall (BMC)]

Bit late i know, but my box had the bits swapped and worked fine
(till i killed reverse doing wheelies)

[Simon1275mpi]

Sorted ;D Look forward to seeing the van flying rather than rolling. ;D