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right for a while now i have had a problem with my car. i was loseing water and i had no leak anywhere and my car did not tick over very well. so i had a mechanic out to look at it as i thought it was the head gasket. he done some tests and told me my cylinder head was poorus. he also found my egr valve was faulty and my fan switch come on too late. so i got a second han cylinder head and had it re-conned and i brought the other bits brand new. (was not cheap ) so after i got all the bits i had the mechanic come back out to fit the parts he started doing it and he got so far and then turned around and told me it can not be done because he can not get the inlet manifold off because he can not get to any of the bolts so he could not take the head off. he said it needs to have some sort of strut bar to go across the engine and hold it in place and take the engine mount blots off to push the engine forward so he can get to them. he told me he could not do it, i need to take it to a garge and have it on a ramp and do it. is this true or is he talking s**t and he dont know what hes on about? i looked in the manual and on the pics it shown that he took the head off with the manifold on? i'm really confused now and dont know what to do. i have spent around 800qwid now on parts and cant get them on? surely this man dont know what hes doing. any tips on this and does anyone know if its true what he is sayin?

you can take the head of in place theirs nothing stopping you, take it off yourself and do it mate, the orquadest part to a head change is only putting the belt on, make sure everything is in line first before you remove the head, and mark up with the arrows aswell as some tippex, then make sure the new head allignment marks are in the same position as the head marks on the one that you removed from your car, then put it on your car, and make sure again the markers are in right position, tighten the head down, then double check the markers again, and then tighten head up, put belt on, tighten belt and jobs'a good'un

i really dont fancy doing it myself i would rather pay someone to do it because its just the luck i have all the time and something will go wrong. i just wanted to know if he was right or not.

i dont actually know what he's on about lol you can take pretty much every head of a car with the manifold still on

PRICER wrote:i dont actually know what he's on about lol you can take pretty much every head of a car with the manifold still on

thats what i thought. i looked in the manual and it all came out in one. i just think now that he was useless and didnt know what he was on with

hes bleatherin poo mate, it can be taken off with manifold, even if he couldnt take it off with it on, you can defo take the manifold off without moving the engine, hes a poo mechanic if he cant do it, its the simplist engine ever lol

jordyp wrote:hes bleatherin poo mate, it can be taken off with manifold, even if he couldnt take it off with it on, you can defo take the manifold off without moving the engine, hes a poo mechanic if he cant do it, its the simplist engine ever lol

he was telling me they was one of the hardest engines to work on cos everything is compact and you cant get to anything

thats bull lol, me and my uncle done my brothers 1.2 8v couple year ago in the freezing cold and done it and had it runnin perfect within about 4 hours would of been done quicker but had to wait on gettin shot of torque wrench and timing was nippy lol