marts66
16-04-09, 03:04 PM
Hi all,
well thought i was going to get my zed back this weekend, but it appears that i have no compression. The head gasket has been changed and the car started nicely and drove well but then stalled and has now apparently lost all comprehesion. It goes up slightly when oil is down the bores.
I'm asking for the advice as i am 160 miles away from my car with a slipped disc and no way of getting involved apart from phone calls. the HG went about five months ago and since then the car has stood in a workshop waiting to be sorted. The head is recon and had new seats cut and valves lapped in etc,
Is it possible the rings have lost their tension due to heat when the head went? the chap fixing it has suggested this as a possible cause, someone else has suggested the lifters could have stuck/seized. the engine is being stripped down again next week, bloody hell, but i thought i'd pick the brains of others for suggestions/ideas/causes. it just seems strange that after repair, it started first time and reportedly drove well, pulling hard for the first half mile and then didn't!!
any advice or suggestion really really welcome as at wits end :(
well thought i was going to get my zed back this weekend, but it appears that i have no compression. The head gasket has been changed and the car started nicely and drove well but then stalled and has now apparently lost all comprehesion. It goes up slightly when oil is down the bores.
I'm asking for the advice as i am 160 miles away from my car with a slipped disc and no way of getting involved apart from phone calls. the HG went about five months ago and since then the car has stood in a workshop waiting to be sorted. The head is recon and had new seats cut and valves lapped in etc,
Is it possible the rings have lost their tension due to heat when the head went? the chap fixing it has suggested this as a possible cause, someone else has suggested the lifters could have stuck/seized. the engine is being stripped down again next week, bloody hell, but i thought i'd pick the brains of others for suggestions/ideas/causes. it just seems strange that after repair, it started first time and reportedly drove well, pulling hard for the first half mile and then didn't!!
any advice or suggestion really really welcome as at wits end :(