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ok stripped it all back down and think your right, faulty hg. but and its a biggg problem, it looks like there is a chunk missing at the outer edge of piston no 4... this is just turning into one nightmere after another... so anyone had to do a piston on one

cheers all. think i better get stripping it down again... gr8. ill update on what i find cheers

cheers fridgefreezer found it but fitted the headgasket, ran it up and tbh ran quite nice but when i filled the coolant backup it appeared to be leaking inbetween the head and block between cylinder 3 and 4? i tried nipping the cylinder head bolts up very slightly but to no avail, the bottom bolt (closest the front of the engine) between 3 and 4 when trying to tighten it up just seams to kind of spring back? and when i took the rocker cover off a lot of white smoke seamed to come out of it, although this could be the oily watery mix in the oil cus havent changed it yet just wated to see if it started. thanks again this is much appriciated, just need to get this thing done because till then got no car!!

hey all right got a freelander with the 1.8 k series in it, unfortunatly the inevitable happened and the head gasket went. so had the head skimmed (but the bloke said he took a load off it could never be done again) and everything was good. now ive got a new head gasket set but, there is a like tripple layer metal head gasket in there and a a really thin one in the same shape. do i use both of these? also does anyone know the correct tourqe sequence? and finally whats this i hear about the bolt might be too long or somthing?? thanks all the help will be much appriciated

i had to take the windy ratchet back (minus a few sockets that have found there way into my tool set now, i had to take somthing for my trouble of taking it back ). you take it back to them and the woman in the isle just took the old one off me, wrote excange on the box of the new one and i took it to the desk and he let me change it no questions

nope they already have oil in when it is half way up the glass (the red bubble in other words) it is full. just get some of the oil they have at aldi, only £3.50 or somthing like that. it was worth picking some up.

thanks, will check them for blockages tommarow and see how i get on.

right, thanks for the info, luckly i found the IACV. cleaned it (although it did not look that bad) havent played about with the idle screw yet though. i have found a strange syptom though. somtimes it idles at 2000rpm wich is obviously to high and then within about a minute it adjusts itself to extreamly low, so low it somtimes dies. basically it fluctuates on a bigish scale. i am thinking this is possibly the throttle position sensor? if im wrong what else could it be? is there anyway of testing the throttle position sensor? o and also as im not overly familier with rrc, not had it long. where is the throttle position sensor? did think it was a possible MAF sensor so have ordered a new one, but it hasent arrived yet. again, thanks for all the help.

hi, sorry to be a pain (and i feel like i should already no this) but coul someone please tell me the exact location of the IACV and the idle screw. just been told i may need to tweak it to help cure my idle problems (the idleing is erratic by the way) pictures would also help thanks a lot in advance.

yep got my stuff, it was like christmas started the compressor up last night at 10, the naibors were out so it was all good i need to take the air ratchet back because it is leaking oil and air, from the actual tool, not the coupling. i picked up, the compressor, spot blaster, air ratchet, staple gun, impact wrench cant wait to use them this weekend. all for £120 now then weres some rust spots on the series and rrc, shouldnt be to hard...

ok i will take your word for it i will only be using one line at a time so i should be ok

just noticed the compressor also has a regulator on each of its outlets. so, just get a inline filter and oil the tools manually

if it is the same pipes as i am looking at, that will be for yourair conditioning. the plastic covers come off and a machine attaches a pipe to both of them and it refills the air con.

thanks, so it might be worth getting then, but when i do spot blasting or spraying take the oil pot off (or empty it or somthing?) and just change the whip hose for whatever bit of equiptment im using. as far as im aware you can just plug the filter straigt into the compressor you dont have to wall mount it? anyway for £20 might just pick one up unless anyone says no. thanks David sparkes, ansawed all my questions, roll on thursday...

thanks for that bowie69, i was shure there was a way of doing it but just didnt know how (and once i get messing i ushually break stuff) so IACV clean, new 3am, adjust base idle. she will be running good as new (well almost ) cheers