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After the headgasket going in the carpark at riv run i have started the repairs.
Started off the day by ordering my parts ready for 2moz. started stripping down the 106 ready for the head gasket to be replaced and doing cambelt at the same time. just pictures of what i did is some people are interested the headgasket failer was so so slight it took me 10 mins to find where it went lol.

Started off by taking the front bumper off to do a few deer damage repairs and to get to the rad mounting points to remove it, as you can see the coolent wasnt looking so great...






next i started stripping the anoying bits you have to remove to get get the head off easily







Next i jacked up the car so i had some more room to get the bottom pull off and get at the cambelt






Drained the oil out and removed the oil filter, luckally no coolent here




Once the engine mount was off and the cambelt covers were off i set about timing the engine up and getting the cambelt off.







Next was to undo the headbolts unplug the last few bits and bobs, remove the rockers and remove the head to inspect the gasket












to me it seems as though it started to go between 2 and 3 cought it just in time before it did anything major, there was only mix of oil in the coolent no coolent in with the oil.

enjoy paul.

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Unless it's a camera artefact, from the 3rd and 4th photo back from the end, it looks like all four cylinders were failing (top left on photo of each one)

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

your bound to get head gasket problems running these hi performance machines.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

im not sure either each top of the piston had the clean spots on them they are flat tops so im not sure whats going on there... will have a proper check 2moz.

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Its clearance for the valve and the clean spots on the tops of the pistons are as a result of the fresh fuel/ air charge being drawn in. Petrol is a good cleaner you know

thats good then, i was atarting to worry for abit, well for the hole time it took to post the reply i cant aforde it to be more than the hg lol :)

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On 5th May, 2009 Sprocket said:

On 5th May, 2009 Rod S said:
Unless it's a camera artefact, from the 3rd and 4th photo back from the end, it looks like all four cylinders were failing (top left on photo of each one)

I suspect that is for valve clearance

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

well the head has now been skimmed still waiting on my cambelt kit though. anyway the head is now on and tightend up 20nm 90deg x 3. i have had enough of french cars 2day as all i want to do now is burn it. just a few pics this time.

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how can you hate it, the only engine easier to do a head gasket on than that is an a-series. and even then theres not much in it

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

how much was it to get skimmed mate?

before you put the head back on did you put a mini HG on the head to check ????

head to get skimmed was £30 not to bad imo, as for the doing it i didnt mind doing it at all it just pissed me off having to wait for parts then getting the wrong bits sent to me having to wait ect ect. got a few pics of the last parts that are now done was it back running again, done 40 odd miles now and all is going well :)

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PICS











A few of us messing around

Edited by Paul R on 11th May, 2009.

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i popped over yesterday to see how you were doing but no-one in

glad you got it sorted

oh cheers mate should have given us a call, me ollie and chunk went over to our garages after we had finished with the 106, we were probably there when you poped over

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talking of garages i need to pick up that lump sometime