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your best getting someone who knows what there doing to have a look bud if your unsure!! they will know in minutes!

ahh, its not as simple as first though, you need to remove the engine mount, and its the metal bit that its mounted too! under that black cable conduit with the white wtripe!!

same problem, work for renault at the min, but have a workshop at home, tempted to go self employed but dunno if i dare!!! heres my home workshop!

got your own place?

More than that i should think, depends if you get it done by a friend or garage, but i will want a few valves, headgasket set, fresh oil and filter, new coolant, new cambelt. plus the time to do it!

If the bottom turns and that doesnt im afraid so! to be 100 % sure i would get that cover ofF and take a look at the belt, or get a mate to do it if your not mechanicly minded, it will be as slack as a goats ear of snapped!

or as was said earlier, if your under the bonnet on the drivers side of the engine there is a black cover over the cambelt, held on with two 10mm bolts at the top, take them out and have a look under it!

I am a bloody mechanic!!!!

yes, the camshaft should turn around and that spring thing should go up and down!!

can you see the camshaft?

to far to come and have a look then!!

true, where are you ryan?! in the country that is!

not particulary! sometimes you do, othertimes they just stop, game over!:dead:

yes! some of the valves will be bent, and the valves wont be working, if you go and open the filler cap, if you can see the cam inside, get someone to turn it over and have a look if it turns, if it doesnt make sure the bottom pulley, the one that the alternater belt is going to turns, so if the...

my gut feeling, i think the starter is just pushing the pistons up and down, under no stress so turns over a lot quicker! no compression in the cylinders.

i cant remember on that engine, if you take your oil cap off the engine and get a torch, can you see the cam inside the cap?!

I have just seen this in the scrappers! doesnt look very healthy!! hope everyone was ok! :(

when you try and start it you say its making a whining noise? does it seem to be turning over faster than normal?

have you replaced the tdc? thought you were getting one?

i have seen meganes break on 02 plates before 50k, 1400 16valves!

Good evenin edde! see i wasnt far away with 5 hours!!

well, from what i remember, its about 5 hours on a 172, and its £50 an hour plus vat where i work, so plus the belt kit and aux belt, getting pricey!

it is expensive, valve damage is a definite! maybe head damage if your unlucky! it may seem like money for nothing but its worth it trust me! i have seen peoples looks when they pay £1300 to have there car repaired!:(

well what are you going to have on them? or will it vary?

Get it changed! on the age!

you cannot tell, it could look fine and break the next minute! when its to late its to late!!:S

so just buy a damaged repairable williams then?? nick the loom? engine bay only i presume? and ecu?!

how abouk MK-unreliable!? he he!!!

i gathered that much! must be a chuckle though!!!

thats mint.... what was it originally?? how much did it cost in total?