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Gutted as man, my mate did the same thing to his 3a when he revved it to 9200

Yea what everyone else said bout the black shit, you burn a litre of gas an you make X amount of water. Umm, new piston rings = heaps of compression = harder to start... havent put new rings in it lately have you

And yea who cares about the cert? Only a escort owner or ex escort owner is going to know that a 1600's block is an inch higher than a 1300's, so who is going to be able to tell that its a 1600? Just say you reconditoned the 1300 and now it goes alot better. If that fails say that you were told by a mechanic that you wouldnt need to get it certed as escorts came out with factory 1600's using the exact same everything else so why would it require a cert? Thats what I'm going with

Follow Mr Haynes an you'll be right Just mind you dont try and force your gudgeons out, sometimes they can be a bit of a mission and then the next minute they will slide free, take your time so that you dont leave any marks on them. Use plenty of grease/oil when putting things back together. Use the right torqe on all of the bolts etc. Take your time putting the sump gaskets on otherwise you will end up with a leaking main oil seal like I did Pretty much take everything possible apart and recondition it while you have the engine out and apart, saves running into problems later on. Get your cylinders honed or at least take off the lip that forms up the top and then roughen up the cylinder walls before putting your new pistons + rings in. Flush out the block and get new frost plugs. Howcome you aren't going to do anything to your head at the same time? It won't cost much to re-seat the valves using a drill and some valve grind paste.

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6 grand? Which engine has it got? The 1600 pushrods will do 6000 according to the haynes manual. Not sure about the OHC engines but I wouldnt think it would be too much higher than that

Yea what Kyteler said. When I got my engine the dizzy was 180 degrees out, ie was put on backwards. In which case you can just swap the leads round rather than fiddle with the dizzy. But by the sounds of it the dizzy has been moved around and you cant remember how it was anyway.

Yea going by the sounds of it I'd say that its a vacume hose come lose.

If you can just take some measurements to get an idea. I think your the only one on here with a kingswood so not too sure if anyone else will know, sux huh

There identical. How the fuck did you manage that??? trying to get the filter off by any chance?

I tried the trolley jack but it wasnt working so I got dad on the end of a big pole to push the suspension arm down, worked a treat. How'd you put the front left back in???

Heh, I got one of each when it comes to rocker covers, black one and a chrome one. Chrome needs a tidy up though before I swap them over.

spacie - a few of us here were discussing throttle cable brackets awhile back and we had to make our own because the 1300/1600 ones either didnt line up with the carb properly, or didnt bolt onto the new manifold in the correct place. So try a wrecker and if their ones dont fit, you might have to make your own or modify an existing one. Hope this helps.

Use finer sandpaper and more Autosol Sux huh

Thats what I did, nothing dodgy bout that, wire stays in there fine

Damm I forgot about putting shortened springs back in Kyteler is right, shortened springs will give you no probs

Borrowed some off a mate from school I think they are like 30-40 bucks from auto1 or similar place

Step one. Take out strut. Step two. Find some nice meaty wire Step three. Twist loops of wire around the coils nice an tight in lots of places Step four. Remove the nut or whatever from the top of the strut, coil will expand very slightly until the wire tightens. Step five. Remove one loop of wire at a time, that way it gradually uncompresses and doesnt kill anyone. Thats how I did it, dodgy eh? Worked though. And theres no way that you can put them back in without spring compressors.

Well Im not sure about 1100's but 1300's and 1600's definately have different pistons as jerm has mentioned. And no the cranks are not all the same, the 1600 crank is alot bigger, hence the extra inch in height of the 1600 block. If I was you, and wanting to eventually put a V6 in it, I would say, stick with the 1100 for now, put the bigger carb on it and maybe some cheap extractors (there is always some on trademe) and just enjoy that until your ready to do the V6 project. All up to you though Welcome to Oldschool, happen to have any pictures of your car?

Man that car is awesome, looks all strong and muscle car like

No idea boss

Yea hook me up with the details. My mags have plack paint on them aswell, I dont want that coming off or it will look gay as

Yea depending on the cost I might be keen to get it done too, Might give it another go myself using some autosol though before I go spending money.

yea man just PM me ur account number

Is it worth getting leafs reset? What do they actually do?