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Bought:

2 new fog light bulbs.
Citroen Mist water jets (need modded and painted)
2 red braided brake hose
Tap & Die set to mod the citroen jets

just need some red caliper paint and Arden blue paint

Think i blew a crank oil seal today

Boss gave me a lend of a hyundai getz 1.0 Liter while my corsa is getting fixed. i hope to have a good update today or by the end of the week.

Car getting worked on today, fingers crossed its a cheap bill. news update soon on what the issue was.

Why do you think the oil seal is gone? You rebuilt the engine not long ago so I can't see any reason it would have gave in already

unless we didnt fit it right ?

i was driving for 30mins at about 70/80. got to a roundabout and was hard on the breaks.
car gave out on me. i thought everything just shifted forward and caused it to stall. but it wouldn't re-start. had to push it off the road.
had a check under the bonnet and didn't see anything out of place. checked under oil cap and checked the dip stick and all seemed fine.
it managed to restart, so i drove it for another 5mins and it gave out again this time engine light had flicked on 1st i think so i thought best not to risk it.
this time expecting the worst i check under the car and there was quite a lot of oil sprayed all over the bottom. i cleaned some of it to try and figure out the location it might have been coming from.

got it towed to a my mechanic that was having a look at it today but no word back from him yet.

i thought it was either the timing chain gasket the one under the water pump runs down the side of the engine or the crank oil seal. i cant think what else it might be off the top of my head.

Going to pick the car back up on Saturday. Il also find out more info when i collect.

but im told over the phone its bad oil pressure in the car.

anyone any ideas what that could mean ? my only two options i feel is to hold onto the car as long as i can and either drop a new engine into it or buy a new car

picked up car on Saturday, started to drive it home got about 10mins down the road at 60mph and same thing car cut out so had to pull over.

seems to be plenty of oil in engine so had to limp drive it back to the mechanic, during this it broke down a further 6+ times. sometimes car started 1st time. other times it would not unless i let it sit off for a few minutes, maybe untill it cooled down a bit ?

it just sounds like a sensor is faulty or over heating, bad battery / loss of power.

something kinda of similar happened a few years ago and i had to replace the crankshaft sensor.

Its a fairly odd problem tbh, what did the mechanic say when you collected it

he said he replaced the Cam shaft sensor, took it for a spin around the block and he thought it was driving fine, but that there's poor oil pressure in the car. due to its old age i guess.

it also needs a handbrake adjuster but i cant find one. is that the one at the back axel ? or is it located at the handbrake leaver or inside rear brake drums ? if i knew the location i can go ask a scrapyard without looking clueless.

ive a feeling its the crankshaft sensor has gone again causing the car to cut out. i replaced it on this forum before a few pages back around December a few years ago.

if its not that, i dont have a clue. faulty Coil pack perhaps or something ?

Could be crankshaft sensor, I can't really think on what else it would be tbh

There's 2(3 technicly) one adjusters where the one cable becomes 2 at the back axle and then there's adjusters in each drum, neither are prone to failure so I would guess it's one of the drums

even tho i dont have my car back yet, i bought some red caliper paint to paint the 2.0 liter brakes i have in the shed before i get them fitted. il post some before and after pics soob

JamieTee_ wrote:I had these in my corsa and this was wound about 3/4 of the way down tbf



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Crazy.. How yours looks.. Then i look at my b.. If i was to do the centres of my wheel black.. And kept the chrome lip..

Got the brakes painted today.

used a dremel drill with one of the stone grinder attachments to chip back all the paint.

who ever owned them before was trying to paint a British Flag on them so that clearly had to go, it was all flaky and really badly done.

sanded it back as best i could and i slapped some red caliper paint onto them about 2 coats. it dries with a plastic coat feeling.

got word back from mechanic today, he said theres no fault codes so doesnt know whats wrong with the car, he thought it might be faulty wire.
i researched it more and told him to replace the crankshaft sensor as if i look back on this project, i replaced it a few years ago when gf was having similar trouble in the car.

bit surprised cause im near certain i asked him to try changing it out weeks ago.

should hopefully know more 2mora.