If you've already ruled out all other water areas the head gasket is where the leak must be coming from. But like you say, I'd be removing stuff to check (stuff that would have to be removed to change hg anyway). HG has one function but that function breaks down to 3 functions - seal cylinders (metal rings), seal waterways, seal oil-ways. The worst way a hg can fail is on metal cylinder rings but if a hg fails in any other way it's still got to be changed.
Are the rocker cover bolts imperial? Been a long time since I dug at all deeply into a P38's RV8 but seem to remember this.
Could make up an M10/M8 stepped stud with a bit of welding and grinding. Always a concern drilling into heads (of any type lol) but got to do it to fit helicoils anyway. I'd go with the stepped stud idea rather than helicoil and have done that on Chrysler 3.3 V6 alloy heads.
My cousin's ex-girlfriend's brother was a tree surgeon... chainsaw slipped, artery cut (more Texas style that just a nick to the wrist), dead. Got to wonder if it was a one in a million accident that couldn't have been anticipated (given that he used a chainsaw every day at work) or if he was particularly reckless that day. Mate's got a glass eye, he probably won't be getting down close to a lathe again so see what's going on closeup with his other eye lol. Other mate calls in to watch me work every Thursday, as a back seat passenger he was involved in a bad car accident around 1990, car with 5 people on board but he was the only person with more than a few cuts and bruises... due to his head going through the side window and hitting a wall. Very similar in character to how he used to be but now with an unusual mix of both paranoia and extreme optimism. I understand the paranoia when I have to test/calibrate a car and ask him if he's coming for the ride.. I have to promise I won't be driving fast.
Wouldn't worry me to cut it while laid under the car but probably not with the grinder just above my head...
Guards and handles get in the way for tight spots, most of the grinders I've bought (smaller than 9") have never had handles or guards fitted.
Best to grind/cut with the tool pulling away from you, if it's pushing toward you it'll bite/jar which is dangerous in itself but is also another cause of broken discs... but pulling away from you means sparks fly back toward you if you're behind and in line with the disc... better if you can get to one side. Sometimes the only way you'll get access is with the disc pushing toward you.. two handed job while applying only light pressure while wishing it spun in the opposite direction. Can often direct the sparks by adjusting point of contact with the disk circumference but it gets progressively more dodgy as it shifts away from pulling away from you. If you can't avoid sparks don't forget ears.. sparks in ears don't seem to cool as fast as they do when hitting skin etc, if a spark goes in at just the right wrong angle it can feel like there's red hot metal slowly burning inner ear (because it is) and it takes a bit of will not to start rolling around while still holding the grinder, then expect earache the rest of the day. Not as bad as welding sparks though.. I wrap a wet towel round head to prevent that when overhead welding. My 9 incher is much scarier than a little 'un, always a tight grip on that ;-) but now I've got to say I only used the 9 incher on one 'project' this year lol. Can't remember the last time I used a saw, grinder is good for all sorts of stuff besides the obvious, such as trimming boot floor carpet that's glued to a thin wooden board (when fitting a cylinder tank to the front of boot space). No worries cutting a 6mm bolt / 10 mm nut even if only way of access means it pushes. Next lesson is on sucking eggs (as opposed to 9 inches).
Will it be a winter camp lol?
Thanks RutlandRover...
Just noticed it's David's P38 lol
I like the 1mm disks for cutting bolts and thin bar, need to buy more as local suppliers have been out of stock for a while. Much more likely to break up if any sideways force is applied than thicker ones but wouldn't want to see them banned.
Awww... doesn't work if you click on the link (does for me)? Bugger, that's taken the spontaneity out of it even if I get it working then!
10mm headed nuts usually have 6mm thread with 1mm pitch (standard M6) but vehicle bolts aren't always standard... Gilbert would be far more likely to know what nut you need. If you have a bit of the old bolt left (which you cut) you could try cleaning up the end of it's threads and if you have any generic 10mm nuts around (which would be very likely to be standard M6) and they screw onto your bolt you'll know you just need an M6 nut with a similar flange.
I sometimes do a bit of mild grinding but don't often dance and definitely don't go on grindr...
Daring types use angle grinders without the guard attached to allow getting into tighter spaces but some of us have scars on arms, indentations in thumbs and bits of metal burned into scalps that didn't used to be there before using an angle grinder.
The 1mm cutting disks are great for cutting but while you can use a 2/3 mm disk for a bit of very mild grinding (and I know it shouldn't really be done with a 2 or 3mm disk), don't try even mild grinding with a 1mm disk lol.
I now look at it like this... It was a bad call by the RAC man to have me continue trying to pull the caravan up Bodmin Moor (grr!) but I can kind of see his predicament and it was also a bad call from me to agree to do it. He'd probably had umpteen self proclaimed mechanics self diagnosing none-issues over the preceding weeks and sent many on their merry way after their engine had cooled down etc. The first guy the AA sent to me was a great old bloke, said he was semi retired but the AA was paying his fees for him to stop in his own caravan in mid-Cornwall so they could send him to peak season call-outs such as mine. This bloke turned up, asked me for the story in which I explained the cat problem and told him the engine had seized, he took in what I'd said, looked me up and down and didn't even bother opening the bonnet before apologising that AA had sent him in a van and he'd have to call for re-reinforcements to get my car home. I said I didn't mind as I'd be enjoying breakfast in the pub on the beach over the road ;-) He told me about in his early days as an AA mechanic (which must have been 40 years ago) he had a Viva which were known to have a common problem of dizzy drive gears breaking up, he self diagnosed his problem and told AA staff but they still sent a little van to try and fix the problem on his drive..... at a time when his wife had begun labour with his first child and he intended to drive her to hospital. A good chat and I asked him if he fancied breakfast but he had stuff to do on works time.
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I keep getting calls from claims companies who'd have me claim the fees I've paid Barclays for this 'enhanced' or whatever account. I've never used their travel insurance or mobile phone insurance but I have used the RAC a few times. I haven't taken any claims firms up on it because I went into the agreement with eyes open, I;m not a 'claims culture' type person anyway, and I did wonder if Barclays might close my account (which I use a lot for business) if I claimed which would be quite a hassle... But if I find there was small print which said the RAC cover was limited I might take them up on it. The first RAC guy was OK, we didn't fall out or anything but I got the full impression he didn't really believe the problems with the car and would in any case rather fob me off so he could get onto another job. He also told me we were on the top of Bodmin Moor so it was all downhill to Newquay when actually there were still the steepest hills to go up. If we'd gone with my suggestion in the first place or if it really was all downhill from there to Newquay my engine probably wouldn't be shafted now... but I know there are different ways of looking at it.
That's interesting Bri, I'll look into this thanks but I suspect you're right again on it being due to being covered through the bank.
Very easy access now, it's only when it gets overgrown that access gets bad but I generally cut it back every year using a petrol brush cutter. This year just after I'd cut it back a council hedge-trimmer tractor came past cutting hedges along Mill Lane, I flagged him down and asked if he'd come down the drive and cut the spruce way back if I paid him, he cut the trees, spruce and everything really way back. Every year I have around half a dozen large American RV's, half a dozen vehicle transporters and a few limos come down and this year it's been particularly easy for them. Just done a Hummer limo that had more ground clearance than most limo's but 'normal' limos don't have a problem either.
Yeh was more fun than that Bri.
It arrived 11pm last night.
A very easy way to get perfect atomisation, new injectors better emissions, lower running costs and easy fuel mapping is to convert to LPG ;-)
If you really want more power, realistically you're looking at changing engine hardware parts and have to bear in mind that engine power mods usually involve compromises i.e. more power at the top end at the expense of torque at the bottom end.
Been back down Cornwall and the Elgrand got loaded on an AA recovery truck yesterday. It can take 48 hours for an unaccompanied vehicle to get home, I'm back home but the Elgrand isn't here yet. No rush, I still don't have an engine to put in it.
As Gilbertd implied, if your ECU is old enough to be not fully sequential then switching one channel (would expect cyl 1 or cyl 5 in LPG software) back to petrol has the potential to switch the whole bank back to petrol... It shouldn't happen but can happen and is more likely to happen when a recent version of software is used with an older ECU, the ECU may not properly support all the features the software seems to offer. For similar reasons it can happen if 'anticipate the injection sequence' is ticked in software Could also potentially happen if the engine is already struggling to idle properly on one bank and you switch a cylinder back to petrol on the other bank if on the other bank the injection sequence has incorrect routing (i.e. LPG injector channel numbers don't match petrol injector channel numbers) such as when an installer has hard wired an injection sequence advance.
