TASMINGER ON ITS LAST CHANCE

[GRIFFONMARK]

This car is seriously getting to me. Now I find that a head gasket has blown even though the engine is running better than ever. Damn, damn, damn. Got a quote today of £750 all in to include welding up the blowing manifold. Is it worth it I ask myself. Anybody interested in buying the duffer? It looks great, sounds great, goes great, but needs a beer every 50 miles, hard liquor every 300 miles. Best bid over £2,500 and it's yours.

[pwd95]

Have a go yourself. Won't cost you more than £100 in bits.

[peaktorque]

GRIFFONMARK said:

This car is seriously getting to me. Now I find that a head gasket has blown even though the engine is running better than ever. Damn, damn, damn. Got a quote today of £750 all in to include welding up the blowing manifold. Is it worth it I ask myself. Anybody interested in buying the duffer? It looks great, sounds great, goes great, but needs a beer every 50 miles, hard liquor every 300 miles. Best bid over £2,500 and it's yours.

I managed to buy some new head-gaskets on e-bay for 99p!

Changing them is easy, it is just getting at them bd exhaust manifold bolts!

[ed_crouch]

It has to stop letting you down in the end - once you've done everything that needs doing, its start behaving!

Patience, Grasshopper.

[pwd95]

Wedge manifold bolts aren't too bad, you just lean over from the other side or get em from underneath. I still don't know how I'm ever going to get at the Griff ones ...

[GRIFFONMARK]

Aaah Master, I shall burn the TVR logo into my forearms and start my journey into the unknown!

Regards

Grasshopper

[TVRleigh_BBWR]

peaktorque said:

GRIFFONMARK said:

This car is seriously getting to me. Now I find that a head gasket has blown even though the engine is running better than ever. Damn, damn, damn. Got a quote today of £750 all in to include welding up the blowing manifold. Is it worth it I ask myself. Anybody interested in buying the duffer? It looks great, sounds great, goes great, but needs a beer every 50 miles, hard liquor every 300 miles. Best bid over £2,500 and it's yours.

I managed to buy some new head-gaskets on e-bay for 99p!

Changing them is easy, it is just getting at them bd exhaust manifold bolts!

I'd be warry of cheap gaskets.

[peaktorque]

TVRleigh_BBWR said:

peaktorque said:

GRIFFONMARK said:

This car is seriously getting to me. Now I find that a head gasket has blown even though the engine is running better than ever. Damn, damn, damn. Got a quote today of £750 all in to include welding up the blowing manifold. Is it worth it I ask myself. Anybody interested in buying the duffer? It looks great, sounds great, goes great, but needs a beer every 50 miles, hard liquor every 300 miles. Best bid over £2,500 and it's yours.

I managed to buy some new head-gaskets on e-bay for 99p!

Changing them is easy, it is just getting at them bd exhaust manifold bolts!

I'd be warry of cheap gaskets.

They are not "cheap" gaskets, they are genuine Rover items that I bought cheaply

Second hand but unused, if you know what I mean.

[grahamw48]

Nuts and bolts is the easy stuff....it's electrical gremlins that drive me insane.

Keep it !!!

[jmorgan]

Don't give in. Worth it in the end. I cannot help but PH Wedges is your haynes manual.

[GRIFFONMARK]

Before I started I thought I'd check the compressions cold. They range from 152 to 172. When I fired it up, steam was coming out the exhaust and it was chugging slightly. The heads come off tomorrow. Gulp.....

[grahamw48]

Good luck !

Look on the bright side...

Soon you'll be a guru answering all the technical FAQs.