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[JamesV6CDX]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270129567738

Not new, but MOT and TAX, looks tidy, and is a cheap and easy peasy fix...

Might send him a silly-low offer and see if he takes it

[Markie]

£150 MAX - Can turn that around and have it resold in ten days  

[JamesV6CDX]

£150 MAX - Can turn that around and have it resold in ten days  

I'm not paying more than £100 for that car

[Kevin Wood]

Got to be worth a try. It's about the right mileage for a fubared head gasket.

Head gasket has a little hole in it

That concerns me a little. How does he know how big the hole is? Has it been taken to bits?

Kevin

[JamesV6CDX]

+ £30 for this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ROVER-400-414-416-95-on-16V-K-SERIES-HEAD-GASKET-SET_W0QQitemZ110137291264QQihZ001QQcategoryZ10414QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

And another £20 for fluids.

And maybe a few pennies on paint to sort out that rear wing.

£150 to fix... Stick it up for sale at £600 on autotrader - £450 profit...

[JamesV6CDX]

HG is probably just Fubar'd Kevin, and he's saying "little hole" to try and make out the HG damage is minimal.

A blown HG is a blown HG, though!!

[JamesV6CDX]

Ok, to maximise profit - maybe I'd spend another tenner on a new cambelt, just to be nice to the new owners

[Markie]

£150 MAX - Can turn that around and have it resold in ten days  

I'm not paying more than £100 for that car

jeez and they call us Scots shrewd  

[JamesV6CDX]

£150 MAX - Can turn that around and have it resold in ten days  

I'm not paying more than £100 for that car

jeez and they call us Scots shrewd  

I still reckon I may get it for about £80....

[JamesV6CDX]

I don't fancy towing this home, and to pay for recovery costs is not viable on this type of car.

I reckon I could do a simple HG change on one of these VERY quickly now, I've done a lot..

I'd probably take my mate Markie down there with me in the Elite... change the HG on the side of the road opposite the guys house to take the P*ss, and then drive it away

[Kevin Wood]

HG is probably just Fubar'd Kevin, and he's saying "little hole" to try and make out the HG damage is minimal.
 
A blown HG is a blown HG, though!!

You're right. I was just being cynical  

I'd budget for a new set of long bolts for the head too. I doubt very much that they are officially re-useable. Whether you can get away with it on a project car is another matter, of course!

Kevin

[Kevin Wood]

Now, who's got a driveway near Northampton on which you could dump a project car?  

Kevin

[Markie]

HG is probably just Fubar'd Kevin, and he's saying "little hole" to try and make out the HG damage is minimal.
 
A blown HG is a blown HG, though!!

You're right. I was just being cynical  

I'd budget for a new set of long bolts for the head too. I doubt very much that they are officially re-useable. Whether you can get away with it on a project car is another matter, of course!

Kevin

there not but its amazing the amount of people that do re use them

[JamesV6CDX]

HG is probably just Fubar'd Kevin, and he's saying "little hole" to try and make out the HG damage is minimal.
 
A blown HG is a blown HG, though!!

You're right. I was just being cynical  

I'd budget for a new set of long bolts for the head too. I doubt very much that they are officially re-useable. Whether you can get away with it on a project car is another matter, of course!

Kevin

 

there not but its amazing the amount of people that do re use them

Haynes says you can re-use them if within a certain length.

Personally I think it's a no-no in terms of best practice, but for a cheap cheap project car...    

[JamesV6CDX]

Well.. if I could get a CHEAP CHEAP set of bolts, I'd do it, to be nice.

But, on my old "H" reg rustheap 214 SLi - I re-sed the head bolts, got well over 10,000 miles out of them before I scrapped the car