My car...its in bits! lots of them! (project thread bandwagon make room!)

Could your hideously bent front end have caused the diff/driveshaft to be misaligned compared to how they are designed to be and the put uneccessary load on them?

I'd sell it after fixing it.
 
I think its pretty clear that with everything else this cars time on the road has surely expired. Better to give up and get rid of it? I mean the whole front is bent now this?

Also how did you manage to find a gearbox with '40k motorway miles' on a car which was at best 5 years old? Who only does motorway miles but only ends up doing under 10k a year?
 
Wicksta said:
Could your hideously bent front end have caused the diff/driveshaft to be misaligned compared to how they are designed to be and the put uneccessary load on them?
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Possibly, but its also possible it took a hit in the accident and its taken this long to show itself...but its also possible that ragging the daylights out of it did the damage, who knows :p

I'd sell it after fixing it.
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Logical thing to do, yes. But I won't get anything for it, and I'm not putting all this time and effort in just to get rid of it.

[TW]Fox;14246464 said:
Also how did you manage to find a gearbox with '40k motorway miles' on a car which was at best 5 years old? Who only does motorway miles but only ends up doing under 10k a year?
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It was barely used? Can only go by what I'm told. I didn't chain the guy to a chair, shine a light in his eye and slap him about a bit :p, just took his word for it. These gearboxes are very solid anyway so I'm not that fussed if its more.

Jez said:
I am with wicksta, fix it, then sell it. If you want another one buy another one :)
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As I said above I won't get anything for it, and I don't want to get rid of it. Nor do I have the money to buy another one.
 
InvaderGIR said:
This is exactly what I said when the drive shaft first went...wouldn't believe me mind.
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No, you said the 2nd one went due to the car being bent. My argument was the first one lasted 22k miles/a year in the cars current state so I doubt the 2nd one only lasted 2 weeks due to it.
 
I think the sensible thing to do might be to scrap the whole car - who knows what else its hiding after you crashed it (oh wait sorry your brother nicked it and crashed it, is that like the oncoming car when you crashed the Astra :p) and then had the repair bodged :p

You'll end up throwing more at it than buying another! Get rid of it :p
 
[TW]Fox;14246589 said:
I think the sensible thing to do might be to scrap the whole car - who knows what else its hiding after you crashed it (oh wait sorry your brother nicked it and crashed it, is that like the oncoming car when you crashed the Astra :p) and then had the repair bodged :pp
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*remembers a specific post where Fox said he wouldn't mention the astra anymore* :p

I actually didn't crash this one, I haven't hit anything for a while now \o/

You'll end up throwing more at it than buying another! Get rid of it :p
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Naaa....keeps things interesting :D
 
Update:

Tonight we removed the gearbox and clutch

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And started to removed the belt and covers for the cambelt on the other side

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Now I'm pretty convinced that the cambelt is simply not doable without removing the engine. It's got so much in the way in the first place, then you've gotta run the belt etc.

Either way, PITA...

We got a bit further than pictured, but my phone memory was full and we were both shattered so just came home.

Rock on tomorrow :)
 
merlin said:
I thought your family ran a breakers yard?
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It's a salvage yard. Breakers break the cars and sell them for parts, salvage sell the cars as seen. And it's been a while since anything sheddified has been in to be honest.
 
Usel said:
Have you seen this video on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fFx8SPiTSc

It should help you, I think it's the KV6 that went into the 800's but it still applies to your engine.

Also you should change the water pump as well.
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Yep, seen and watched that, thanks though :)

And yeh we realised the waterpump today so ordered it and will be here Monday, so holding off on the car until then. But we've started to do the cambelt none the less :)
 
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