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Well I'm sat at the side of the road in the 416 Tourer waiting for the towtruck. Suddenly started chugging and making evil noises... I fear it may be dead :(
 
Sh*t luck Rich . Least it didn't happen on yr birthday ! I'd offer to come and help but i'm prob 200 miles away . Good luck .
 
Home safe and sound. The 'roadside assistant' thinks considering everything seemed OK and considering recent work I'd done the timing tensioner may have cone loose.... One for the weekend I think!
 
K series strikes again, hope it's nothing major. If the cambelt went slack, might have jumped a few teath, if your lucky it's not done any damage.

I bought an endoscope the other day (hospital room + ebay = bankruptcy), that plugs into the usb on your laptop, and is small enough to feed into a spark plug hole. £49ish, tried it in the hospital room and it worked great, obviously haven't had chance to try on a car yet, should be good for hard to see areas and hopefully inside combustion chambers.
 
I must admit I'm quickly losing any faith I had in the car. This is definitely the last chance saloon for it... If it does go OK again after changing the timing fine.... Otherwise I think it's a step too far this time.
 
webmaster said:
I bought an endoscope the other day

tried it in the hospital room and it worked great,
Click to expand...

Please don't tell us where you put it :shock:

Richard :D
 
Well this morning i've got all the timing covers off and the result is that the timing looks right to me so the fault must be elsewhere.

am i missing anything???




Now i'm going through the evening in question and the aa man checked for sparks, and we could smell fuel but to me that means theres something wrong on the fuel side?

I'm going to go try turning it over in a minute...

Any ideas gratefully received.. I'm feeling a little disheartened with the 400 now!

Thanks,

Rich.
 

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That looks right, unless a cam has completely spun, which is pretty impossible.
Might need to pull the rockers off and have a peak.

Does it run ?, what sort of noise does it make ?

Don't get too downhearted, this is nothing compared to the mess I had to deal with on the wifes 216, I was really tempted to scrap it at several points, and it wasn't head gasket related.
 
Thanks for the resize Rick! Posted in a hurry :)

Well - IT RUNS!!!

At first with noise of cams and valves making a loud knock. Stopped it and added a bit of oil and it then quietened down after about 30 seconds. So to me this is sounding like oil starvation at the top end causing the valves to stick... does that sound feasible? What else could cause this. It did stop whilst running originally...

The top rocker gasket does exude quite a lot of oil, but the level in the engine was still above the minimum level on the dipstick.

So. It sorta works, but obviously i need to work out what might have caused this behaviour in the first place...

RIch
 
Well, you say that, but I wonder if it's something to do with the new head gasket, I'm fairly sure they're all the same, but it could be an oilway blocked or missing from the gasket ?? Not necessarily your fault though.

I wonder did the oil pressure light come on ? I'm fairly sure they cut the ignition if the oil pressure drops, I know my 820 used to cut out in corners if the oil was low.

Have you done an oil & filter change since the head gasket ? if not I'd start with that, could be all sorts of crud in the oil.
 
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