Hello All
The Head Gasket went on my Campus recently..it's only done 50000k and I just like the car..I've had it 2 years and it's great... so I managed to get it to my Dad's mate who owns a garage and took the head off for him to have a look at (he was working on a crowd of other jobs so I got stuck in. Then I eft it with him to say yes or no...Next thing he'd fixed it, put a new MOT on it and was calling me up to go collect it...Yeah, another yeah for Minty.
I got there and he then said..he could not skim the head because the groove from the blow was too great to take out..so he'd used epoxy and quickly whacked the head back on....I drove it back the 10 miles thinking "epoxy..why did he do that?..will that work???"
Any thoughts on the matter folks??
Also, forward thinking.
Which Renaults other than my 1992 1.4 litre Renault 5 campus use the same engine...(is it a C1J or a C2J ? and does this matter?
My thoughts are that if I source another serviceable cylinder head, I can get it skimmed and replace it if/when the epoxy blows....so to widen the chance of getting a serviceable head are there any other Renault models that share the Head?
Hopefully this'll mean I can keep Minty chugging.
(As an aside I had a R4 van way back, the head went and an acquaintance just took a file to it..physically hand filed it..I was gob smacked..he put it back on and no problem..further gobsmacked.
Then it got nicked).
Thanks in advance All.
Neill
The Head Gasket went on my Campus recently..it's only done 50000k and I just like the car..I've had it 2 years and it's great... so I managed to get it to my Dad's mate who owns a garage and took the head off for him to have a look at (he was working on a crowd of other jobs so I got stuck in. Then I eft it with him to say yes or no...Next thing he'd fixed it, put a new MOT on it and was calling me up to go collect it...Yeah, another yeah for Minty.
I got there and he then said..he could not skim the head because the groove from the blow was too great to take out..so he'd used epoxy and quickly whacked the head back on....I drove it back the 10 miles thinking "epoxy..why did he do that?..will that work???"
Any thoughts on the matter folks??
Also, forward thinking.
Which Renaults other than my 1992 1.4 litre Renault 5 campus use the same engine...(is it a C1J or a C2J ? and does this matter?
My thoughts are that if I source another serviceable cylinder head, I can get it skimmed and replace it if/when the epoxy blows....so to widen the chance of getting a serviceable head are there any other Renault models that share the Head?
Hopefully this'll mean I can keep Minty chugging.
(As an aside I had a R4 van way back, the head went and an acquaintance just took a file to it..physically hand filed it..I was gob smacked..he put it back on and no problem..further gobsmacked.
Then it got nicked).
Thanks in advance All.
Neill