Is anyone familiar with these?? I know a bloke that has one. It cut out when he came to a junction and is now making a bad rattling noise from the engine. Its sounds like the inlet cam has jumped a tooth on the chain or tappet broken.. Its runs ok but has a very slight misfire. Is there any common problems on these before i pull it apart?
Just say your to busy, I volunteered to fix a neighbours volvo (change the head gasket) took ages (52 bolts on the rocker cover alone!!), I snapped the camshaft in my Nissan sunny, might be that, sounds very similar. Very brittle cams.
I've worked on these pieces of shite.
We bought one with a shagged motor, no oil pressure and rattling, so we put a new motor in, the second motor had the same faults as yours, until it
died.
Motor no. 3 ran for 3 months and the cam chain tensioner came out and self destructed the engine !
Walk away ? Or if you can't I'd check the cam chain, tensioner and timing.
had mine 2 years brought it with 129000 sold it with 143000 never let me down or made the slightist of noises great car sorry doesn't help but thought i'de post something posotive
Iv got no intention of fixing it, looks an arse of a job. The chap asked me to check it out and see what i think. Its a nice car and he only got it
last week so im trying to help out a bit.
Thanks lads.
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and he only got it last week so im trying to help out a bit