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Ok thank you, I had low compression so I am hoping to just replace rings it is all standard stuff, it's a little frustrating not having an actual manual for this stuff, trying to find out if it is rings and not bore or piston

Where can we download this @NorthloopCup?

What would be the piston to cylinder clearence?

Ok got air leaking from here on 1 and 4 I have not test 2 and 3 yet but does this mean head gasket or inlet valves?

Is that ok or bad?

Ok so I had 20% to 27% drop across all four.

Just ordered one so see how that goes

I have a rough idle and water/black smoke out of the exhaust, suspect a bent valve or injector 14ohms across all injectors and cleaned throttle body but this made no difference, compression test revealed 1round 125 across all four, I read on here that it should be around 200 so is that my issue...

Hi, Last year I bought an 182 engine minus the cams and inlet (i assumed throttle bodies were used before) so I fitted my 172 cam and inlet, I snapped the dipstick so I took the sump off tpo replace it and found some arp bolts and a billet fly wheel had been fitted, This engine went in and idle...

So would this make the car idle just below 1000 and be a little lumpy? It also takes a decade for the revs to drop down after revving and a touch of black smoke.

I have just gone to change the belt on a new engine I acquired but there is no timing marking on the flywheel, is this a billet/lightweight flywheel? Its smooth on the inside and has lots of circular cut outs which is different to my existing flywheel, or is it just a 182 flywheel as mine is is...

Is that turner race developments? I think they only deal in German cars

Hi I'm in gloucestershire but I have an engine block which is in good nick but I plant to rebuild the whole thing, my question where can i get the engine cleaned and honed etc can I take it to any machine shop or is there somebody recommended around my area, also the parts to rebuild is RPD the...

Lol fair enough, time to start my new build then or find another temp engine.

Ok so when I loosen off the bearing and tighten the nut just before 20nm I get maybe half a turn and then the engine locks, does that mean crank has warped or rod can this be fixed in situ? This only needs to do one or two track days then it's got a new engine going back in over the winter, are...

No it looks fine, I know what you mean on another engine had the rod snap and the crank when a dark colour then but yeah crank on this one looks good,any tips for the oil pump it looks good to my un trained eye but anything I can do to test it?

I took it apart chain is good the cogs inside at the bottom would good the filter was not blocked, so how can you tell if oil pump caused that? Yes changed all bearings all good apart from one

What do mean?

Hello, My 172 after a track day decided to make a tapping noise so quickly shut it off and diagnosed big end bearings, so i removed the sump found one had become worn and loose. so being as this engine only needs to survive one or two more track days i decided to replace the bearing and not...

Where can I get the correct and decent valve spring compressor?

How has everyone done this? The bolt is too long to remove without taking the fuel tank out and the bolts holding the rear sub frame on the chassis have no heads to hold against when removing, surely there is another way?

It's running well so I'm happy at the moment, going to leave it there.

How can I tell not taking it for a spin yet but revs ok and not noisy

I did not think an engine would run with bent valves or have I got that wrong?

Possibly it was tight on both accounts though like I said will be investing in a new one soon.

I keep thinking that but the tool I have (cheap crap) does not have the bolt hole locator to tell you if it's correct, slits high or slits low so all I had to do was get the slits inline, so in my case dephaser was high the other low it's a strong tool but missing that bit so I might invest in...

Ok update, I had one upside down (I have no idea how) so all.good now purrs like a kitten took me 5 hours last night but end result was good cheers for the help everyone

My leads have different lengths but yes 4321 starting from cambelt side, will do the cambelt again tonight I'm pretty sure its that's that's is out as there are no loose plugs etc plus its sparking and fuelling so to me that points towards the timing. Thanks for all the help

Yeah I lined up the fly wheel to the mark and I put the pin in too, so what could cause back fire if the belt is all correct the leads are pretty self explanatory as they are different lengths so any ideas?