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alot of vvt engines sound like that on first start up till the oil pressure builds up 1.8 20v turbos sound like it too

lol nightmare had the same problem on mine last night, ended up shortening a 182 cat and angling it slightly.. bit caveman but it works lol

you cant look at codes individually its where so many people go wrong. is the car missfiring? its detected missfires so if it has/is missfiring i'd say all the faults are being caused by either a broken wire leading to the coil pack or the coil pack itself. and its probably that thats put the...

yup, gets boring after about the 350th wire lol

well im incredibly proud of myself tonight, started to wire up the doors..problem i had was the plugs from the 172 dash loom/1.2 door looms dont match up. so i cut the matching 1.2 plugs off the dash loom and set about joining them up. on the drivers side i managed to get central locking and the...

dead easy to change, benifits are the coolant not freezing and cracking the block, stops corrosion of the block etc etc

buy a magnex exhaust you'll end up fabricating your own anyway... had to cut and reweld my center section so i could get it to fit in a way im happy with

you dont need to change the whole shaft! buy a stretch gaiter,, you just pop the shaft out of the hub (leave it in the gearbox) stretch the gaiter over with a cone then put it back on

you dont need the crank out to change shells? you may aswell take the engine out if your doing that as its gearbox and cambelt off

imo if you have to ask too many of the mechanical questions its not worth doing. i do it for a living and im in the middle of a 172 conversion at the mo http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=305546 there are bits of wiring im struggeling with,, its only a relatively easy swap if you...

normally something like that if i couldnt get hold of torque setting id just go somewhere between 10 and 15 nm and you should be ok

well its the whole lot really, basically i have a 172 dash loom (obviously including the plugs which the door harnesses plug in to) and 1.2 door looms, the plugs dont match up and i need to join the bloody lot up so anything you have please mate

as per title, really begrudge booking it in at renault for them to want to keep the car 3 years cheers

thats just self explanitory, just look at it and it will explain itself run the wiring along the side of the car untill you get to something that gets in your way then look for openings/places you can tuck the wire untill you end up in the boot

nice one, i hate all this vacum running through the breather system nonsense... you couldnt have a check on your wiring diagrams see if it lists ph2 172/1.2 door harness diagrams could you please? cheers

i thought as much, so this gets blocked when deleting the carbon canister cheers

you dont need to pull all that off, just pull the rubber seal off round the door opening and tuck the wire down the gap

in the end of the manifold, cant miss when you are under the car

any clues, or any pics with the plenum off cheers

oh, there is one of those stamped closer to the flywheel side just below the head you'll need to wire brush it up to see it

are you talking about the f4r 730 number? i was told i needed this by renault when i tried to order a cambelt kit for mine, engine was out and on a stand and fooked if i could find it

i've got a rubber pipe ontop of the oil seperator with a sort of push fiting on the end, exits from under the plenham on the o/s of the car,, any ideas what it goes to as i dont have the plastic pipe that clips on to it

as per title, could anybody help me out with this? im hoping the wires are the same colours (the plugs are different:mad: ) havn't looked to see if the wire colours match up yet im too scared lol but i can see them being a proper nightmare to wire up

standard are crap, i fitted poly bushes to mine couldn't stand driving it without now i've yet to drive the car since i've fitted the 172 lump but i would imagine its going to be much the same story

yep all interchangable

see you have a turbo, i had a magnex on my xr3,, that fitted perfect aswell. bit anoying im basically using the bits they send to custom build myself an exhaust, but oh well

or you can just use a 172 cap alternator bracket and mount with a shorter belt, as i am running no pas or ac

in the middle of fitting mine, has any body else had this problem? the angle of the middle section where it bends over the axle is completely wrong i've had to releif cut it and bend the thing upwards just so it can meet up with the cat and leave the backbox in a nice position unless its...

well thats cheered me up somewhat, heres me thinking i've got loads of problems lol i guess im towing it to renault this week then cheers

as per title really, at present my immobiliser isnt coded but when cranking i have no spark, no injection pulse and no fuel pump prime, is that right? the fuel pump does power up (you hear a donk from the pump)when you turn the ignition on for a split second but thats it. it also runs if you...