Recent content by Jonz

Part of the fun of owning a cliosport is their quirks! They do tend to have a little bit of a lumpy idle, especially cold, just not excessively so. They also have a tendancy to kangeroo for about 30-60seconds from dead cold.

The dephaser solenoid advances the timing at around 1800rpm I'm afraid, though it sounds like an electrical issue to me possibly just due to be stored. That looks like it will be a well tidy car polished up! Did you mention you were close to north wales? I was up there the other day when we had...

For anyone who reads in the future and worried about timing marks or tipex marks, the reason they are done is to check tension after the belt has been tensioned but not yet locked to the already timed up engine using the correct timing tools. If after rotating the pulley assembly with the...

Fair enough. I had not seen that it was sounding like a diesel, I just guessed you were looking for a cheap clio to knock about in without spending unnessecerily on it. When I joined up to get guide (which has plenty of nifty tricks) I got the "you must change this, and this, and that or it will...

He was talking about £600 for a car being within his budget and whatnot I didn't know if he was trying to get himself a reliable car for as low as possible price or if he wanted to go the all out replacing everything. There is no urgent need to replace the dephaser, even if it is rattiling, it...

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How many miles has it done? All depends on how much money you want to spend! Unless the dephaser is making the car sound like a diesel, you don't really need to change it. Water pumps seem to last forever and are driven by the aux belt so easy enough to change and I'm nearing on 150k miles on...

You'll be fine, it's easier than most cars imo. The only difficulty is access that renault has left to some bolts should be a crime, but if you're lifting the engine out then no worries. Though when you add up the cost of parts + the locking tools you only end up saving just over £100.

Just noticed this, now that the crank pulley is off it it's likely the cams have moved.

I would double check you're in the right hole there and not the balancing hole. The groove in the crankshaft should be at the midpoint between those two ribs above it in the right of the pictures.

clogged cat, blowing exhaust, faulty lambda can cause poor mpg

it depends how many miles since last reset. If it has like 2 miles since last reset it will drop about 10mpg a minute while idling.

oh wow

mpg will ne mpg will never go up while idling..it will keep going down until it hits 0..

Does it do it in neutral if you just rev it?