Seeing everyone's Clio's last week at CSF made me miss mine so much I decided it needs to be resurrected, even with a f*cked engine it can't just sit there rotting.
(I also needed to weed the concrete)
Battery was utterly dead despite me charging it every month I had nothing but relay clicking, I had to jump it off the Golfs battery which to my relief fired it up instantly even with two year old fuel.
This engine is pretty much toast, everythings whiny, very tapperty it sounds like a sewing machine and I've previously found oil in the manifold on cylinder 1, when I compression tested it two years ago it had 130, 130, 130, 90, most of them seem to be down on cylinder 1, as
@Krarl discovered when he tested the one I was meant to have, his was 180, 180, 180, 60, so simultaneously better and also worse somehow.
It cuts out randomly and sometimes goes into limp mode, sometimes not, then it struggles to start after its cut out, then it's over fueling with bore wash, so maybe lambda 1 related as one of the connectors had to rebuilt after it got ripped apart when the engine last came out being still plugged in, but there's never any fault codes and the live data always looked fine.
It also has a misfire despite new leads and spark plugs.
The cat sits on the roof to groom herself and uses it to jump over the fence so the bonnet and roof are covered on muddy paw prints.
Gave it a blast with a pressure washer to get rid of the leaves and cobwebs, then a good once over with some soapy turtle wax in a bucket.
I wasn't trying to get it spotless, just wash the moss and shite off it so it doesn't start to rust.
Yes I know I didn't do the wheels, I couldn't find the spray and alloys don't rust so b*llocks to it .
I had it up on axel stands and ran it through the gears to spin the rust off the discs, after an hour of that they were still rusty because it's sat for years, didn't get a photo of that because I'm thick and forgot .
Then tucked away until next week when I'll fire it up and drive it nowhere because if it cuts out it might not start again, I also saw the gearbox drip tray was bone dry, so the seal has either clogged up and stopped weeping, or it's all leaked out and the gearbox is empty.
Which brings me to the main reason I'm updating this thread, I need an engine, a provable compression tested engine, the options I've got are :
1. Buy a random engine for £250 - £1000, total lottery as none of them come with a provable compression test.
2. Buy another Clio for under £2k, not that I have £2k to spunk on another Clio atm, swap the engine and maybe the box and have an entire car of spares leftover, but without testing the engine I could be buying another headache that's down on compression, I doubt anyone would be happy with me removing their inlets, unplugging the coil and testing every cylinder on their driveway, storage is also an issue with a third car.
3. Get mine rebuilt, I have no idea what's actually wrong with it so it would need a complete tear down so see if it's even saveable, I'm thinking a minimum of new piston rings, assuming the cylinders aren't scored, a complete head rebuild with the block skimmed, that's before buying new belts pullys, tensioners, aircon delete kit to replace my pikey setup, I have no idea how much all that will cost but I suspect it would be cheaper to just buy another car.
So in short has anyone got an engine that isn't a heap of sh*t?
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