Ray Pearce

When we got back to the car park after walking the dog on Saturday we found a dark blue car with clams N7 FUN parked up next to the ice cream van.

... plus scraping the gloop off the cam carrier and applying fresh gloop. Oh - and fitting cam oil seals.

There was the green R400 on Wight Blat here

Is there any news of the Green/Yellow stickers yet?

Something like this?

Cam carrier gasket or cam cover gasket? The cam carrier uses a sealant rather than a gasket and if this needs re-doing then you will need new camshaft oil seals too. If you are doing this then you will need a cam locking tool and it might be worth considering changing the cam belt. On the other hand, if it is the cam cover gasket then this is easy-peasy. It's a coated steel gasket which is normally re-usabe but check that the coating is intact as this was the cause of a very similar sounding leak on my engine.

After you have plugged the converter in (and any device drivers required have installed) you can go to Device Manager (Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware tab/Device manager) and open the Ports icon. You should be asily able to identify the converter. On mine it says "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port(COM11)" If you want to map it to different port number then right click it, select properties and go to the Port Settings tab. Click the Advanced button and you will be able to select any port number that is not already in use.

RoadSport06, Do you happen to have a list of the parts that you used and the price if possible? Does the braided hose connect directly to the capilliary tube?

Can I bring my car up for a respray?

It would be even better if it was in the 7FAQ wiki. See the last post in this thread for details.

@finnie Is Chris Wyles still around? His CatStart does what you are asking - press for ignition, press and hold for starter, press to stop. I bought one a while back. See here

No oil visible under cambelt covers Hard to tell if sump or sender is leaking as there is oil all over. But would either of these manage to send oil up to the level of the head gasket?

Linky no workee. Try here

SM25T - S3 DJ - I don't see much oil above the head gasket line. Could it really come all the way from a rear cam seal to the front before revealing itself?

No apollo tank yet. I have one waiting to be fitted but didn't want to introduce another variable until I had sorted the leak out.

I have had a slight oil leak on my 1.6K for over a year now and I am despairing of ever finding out exactly where it is from. I see oil on the exhaust side of the engine appearing to start at the front edge of the head gasket join, spreading down and back to coat everything in sight. Since the start of my problems my head gasket has been changed twice and a suspect cam seal has been replaced - all to no avail. I have currently got my head off again and have been examining the gasket carefully. It show no signs of an obvious breach in the relevant area but there were traces of oil on the underside outer edge leading from the head dowel area. Looking at the head I can see some very light markings where the steel dowel has made contact with the head but I can't feel any ridges with a fingernail. After I removed the alternator to get a better look, I found an awful mess with oil everywhere. Could this indicate a leak from the oil filter area? Possibly spraying up far enought to reach the head gasket join? Or is it simply where the oil has run down and I have never been able to reach to clean before? What to do? Should I just clean it all thoroughly, reassemble, take for a test run and then pull apart again to find the source?

Whatever you do - DONT use cat litter. Real cat litter is designed to absorb liquids and will turn into clumps which will be almost impossible to flush out. The stuff on track run-off areas isn't real cat litter and isn't suitable for kitty's tray.

Was it this one here?

The problem with putting in the rear suspension is going to be the propshaft. This needs to be slipped into the tunnel before the diff is mounted and it looks like you might have trouble slipping it over the g/box output shaft at that angle. You could try putting the shaft in and leaving it disconnected at both ends. It might be OK as long as you are careful when moving the car.

The mising link is http://members.aol.com/DVAndrews/kgasket.jpg

Probably the same reason as why one half shaft is longer than the other.

😔You b'ain't bringing that into moi car park 'til its fixed proper loike

Is your exhaust the standard with a single pipe exiting the bodywork? If it is then it should have a built in cat. Look at the front of the silencer body, if it is cone shaped and there is a weld line visible about 9 inches back (under the heat shield) then you have the integral cat.

Did you wash it before you put it away? Could water have gotten down into a sparkplug hole?

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