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 Cracked Head
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Ben Lawrance
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Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 52

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:19 pm

Hi Guys

Spoke to the garage earlier. The 19 is very poorly.

If you lot remeber i told you about cylinder number 3 having low compression. I thought it was the head gaskett, so bought one had gave it to my local garage to fix.

Well......

The head gaskett was indeed fooked but this was caused by a cracked head. He said that it was cracked right through the middle from no.2 to no.3, thus why it was a sack of shit.


Outcome.....

Either find a head for an E6J engine, or get a second hand engine.

Don't spose any one has either lying around that they want to donate to a very good cause. I will of course reward you handsomly.

He said that he would recommend the new (well, second hand) engine because then the whole thing is relativly newer, and the head has been working with the rest of the engine so it is less likely to have problems.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Ben
schakal
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:28 pm

i am sure you can find one of those engines for about 50-60 quid from a scrap yard mate .did you look around a bit?
JB
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:33 pm

a head from another engine on your btm end shouldnt present a problem. plus easier to swap
schakal
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:37 pm

TRY THIS IF ANY GOOD

1989 F reg RENAULT 19 Manual Petrol 19 1.4 energy - ideal for spares - good tyres 07092 599973

its in colyton
huwwatkins
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Joined: 10 Jun 2004
Posts: 2317

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:15 pm

Trouble with that is your left with the job of getting shot of the rest of the car.
schakal
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:48 pm

he might be able to get the head only ,or the whole engine .
just aaaask Surprised
Richard
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Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 166

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:42 am

i have a spare 16v head but she no good but going to any one else hehe some ho i dont think ill get round to pulling it apart for fun, im so lazy
Chris H
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 19978

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 4:13 am

I have a 1.4 head, 2 actually but I only have 1 you can have. It needs a couple of valves so you'd need to swap em over from your old head.

But I'd use me as a last resort as posting isn't cheap. Go to a scrappy.

Theres loads of knackered 19's, clios, meganes with the 1.3 3energy, you can use any, you just need to swap the manifolds over which is easy.
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