Soldato
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As most of you know, at 120k the ZS needed a bit of work, namely a cracked head caused by insufficient antifreeze in last year's big freeze.
While I'm in there, it's also getting a few other bits and pieces - at 120k the cambelt tensioner and idler are rumbling a little, and also the water pump is due for a change.
I may get a hybrid turbo built for the car, this will depend on funds once the other work is done and it's ready to put back together.
The car is a 2003 MG ZS TD, was previously running at about 150bhp before it was taken off the road.
I've already been called stupid for owning the car, keeping the car etc, at the end of the day I do like the car a lot, although ideally I'd of course have a V6 variant. Nevertheless, with an Integra chassis and Lotus engineered suspension, it's quite fun for a daily diesel hack.
Right, time to finally get started. I've been putting it off for long enough. :lol:
I had a head which was taken from my mates knackered 620SLDi, but predictably the valve seats have been destroyed by bits of piston flying round when he melted 2 of them.
Cleaning up the head, to test:
Turns out it doesn't hold liquid when tested, and promptly dumped lovely black sooty water all over my clean floor! :broon:
Anyway...
...Scrapyard trip ahoy!
Went to a great breaker's yard yesterday, armed with 2 toolboxes, a pry bar and a breaker bar. :lol:
Found a nice 420SDi to attack, so removal starts...
A few hours later, I got it off! Helluva job :lol:
Tonight I'll be cleaning it up, and then work will start removing the head on the ZS, ready to swap.
While I'm in there, it's also getting a few other bits and pieces - at 120k the cambelt tensioner and idler are rumbling a little, and also the water pump is due for a change.
I may get a hybrid turbo built for the car, this will depend on funds once the other work is done and it's ready to put back together.
The car is a 2003 MG ZS TD, was previously running at about 150bhp before it was taken off the road.
I've already been called stupid for owning the car, keeping the car etc, at the end of the day I do like the car a lot, although ideally I'd of course have a V6 variant. Nevertheless, with an Integra chassis and Lotus engineered suspension, it's quite fun for a daily diesel hack.
Right, time to finally get started. I've been putting it off for long enough. :lol:
I had a head which was taken from my mates knackered 620SLDi, but predictably the valve seats have been destroyed by bits of piston flying round when he melted 2 of them.
Cleaning up the head, to test:
Turns out it doesn't hold liquid when tested, and promptly dumped lovely black sooty water all over my clean floor! :broon:
Anyway...
...Scrapyard trip ahoy!
Went to a great breaker's yard yesterday, armed with 2 toolboxes, a pry bar and a breaker bar. :lol:
Found a nice 420SDi to attack, so removal starts...
A few hours later, I got it off! Helluva job :lol:
Tonight I'll be cleaning it up, and then work will start removing the head on the ZS, ready to swap.
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. Back when a time when BMW eventually took over Rover then later ditched it, when the stupid "buy British" Rover admirers hated and blamed BMW when in fact they should have been looking closer to home at the idiots who got Rover into the situation they found themselves in (ie, ROver management and it's other employees).
