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[Kevin Wood]

I'd have a look at the oil pressure relief valve before stripping it, although if it's knocking it needs stripping anyway, TBH.

Shame about the bumper.

Kevin

[tunnie]

Currently these are fetching £2.5k on autotrader, and that's not including a gas kit

So far to buy it £520
We may have sourced a low mileage 2.6 engine for £500
LPG kit £1200
bumper, blind & fog light £200

So thats £2.4k and it's gassed up as well.

It's got 96,000 miles and i would imagine it has had a hard life, hence the engine fail, tomorrow it goes on the ramps and will be looked over to see what else needs doing, if there is nothing else them it's going to repair and put back on the road, if there is anything else major then it will be broken.

The interior is black/grey

They maybe that price on autotrader, but are they selling?

You got a bargin there, so there is loads of money to be made there. Don't mess about trying to fix the current one, source a known good one.

[Entwood]

Currently these are fetching £2.5k on autotrader, and that's not including a gas kit

So far to buy it £520
We may have sourced a low mileage 2.6 engine for £500
LPG kit £1200
bumper, blind & fog light £200

So thats £2.4k and it's gassed up as well.

It's got 96,000 miles and i would imagine it has had a hard life, hence the engine fail, tomorrow it goes on the ramps and will be looked over to see what else needs doing, if there is nothing else them it's going to repair and put back on the road, if there is anything else major then it will be broken.

The interior is black/grey

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Where are you LPG-ing for £1200 ?? DIY or a contact ??

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[tunnie]

Currently these are fetching £2.5k on autotrader, and that's not including a gas kit

So far to buy it £520
We may have sourced a low mileage 2.6 engine for £500
LPG kit £1200
bumper, blind & fog light £200

So thats £2.4k and it's gassed up as well.

It's got 96,000 miles and i would imagine it has had a hard life, hence the engine fail, tomorrow it goes on the ramps and will be looked over to see what else needs doing, if there is nothing else them it's going to repair and put back on the road, if there is anything else major then it will be broken.

The interior is black/grey

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Where are you LPG-ing for £1200 ?? DIY or a contact ??

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I suspect DIY eBay kit he fitted to his 2.5 Elite, same kit JamesV6 used

[Jay w]

people could think of me a slightly mad but let me explain......

I spend a lot of time in my cars, because of this, or possibly because of my general interest in cars but i don't buy cars to make money, however i do like to spend time fixing them as well was driving them.

I have been watching a few cars on both autotrader and Ebay, good ones are fetching 2250-2500 now the plan was to take this, fix the engine. get the rest of it straight and then use it in the same way that i did the Elite, ie up to about 150,000-160,000 and then start again, bearing in mind that will be 2 years worth of motoring for me.

Now in that time i will spend a lot more that the car is worth, i spent over 8K in 2 years on the Elite   however that does include petrol and gas as well as servicing costs, so i have budgeted for that as well.

In answer to the 'why not buy a car that is newer? Simple, in 2 years time with 150,000 miles on it, i will still be able to get 1-1.5K for it my loss will be nominal, where as to buy a secondhand car with 30K on it (10K) and then put 50k on it in 2 years will devalue it sooo much i would lose much more on face value.

I could get to the garage tomorrow and find that the diff is on ots way out of it needs discs and pads all round, something as simple as that could be the end of the road for it, or it could run again for another 100K if we rebuild it.....

who knows

[Jay w]

Currently these are fetching £2.5k on autotrader, and that's not including a gas kit

So far to buy it £520
We may have sourced a low mileage 2.6 engine for £500
LPG kit £1200
bumper, blind & fog light £200

So thats £2.4k and it's gassed up as well.

It's got 96,000 miles and i would imagine it has had a hard life, hence the engine fail, tomorrow it goes on the ramps and will be looked over to see what else needs doing, if there is nothing else them it's going to repair and put back on the road, if there is anything else major then it will be broken.

The interior is black/grey

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Where are you LPG-ing for £1200 ?? DIY or a contact ??

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Professionally fitted 80l tank, will take 4 days, a company in plymouth will do it for me.

I don't have the time to do a DIY job again, however i would love to save £400 in doing so

[Entwood]

Would you mind PM'ing me details/phone number  

Be appreciated

[Markie]

people could think of me a slightly mad but let me explain......

I spend a lot of time in my cars, because of this, or possibly because of my general interest in cars but i don't buy cars to make money, however i do like to spend time fixing them as well was driving them.

I have been watching a few cars on both autotrader and Ebay, good ones are fetching 2250-2500 now the plan was to take this, fix the engine. get the rest of it straight and then use it in the same way that i did the Elite, ie up to about 150,000-160,000 and then start again, bearing in mind that will be 2 years worth of motoring for me.

Now in that time i will spend a lot more that the car is worth, i spent over 8K in 2 years on the Elite   however that does include petrol and gas as well as servicing costs, so i have budgeted for that as well.

In answer to the 'why not buy a car that is newer? Simple, in 2 years time with 150,000 miles on it, i will still be able to get 1-1.5K for it my loss will be nominal, where as to buy a secondhand car with 30K on it (10K) and then put 50k on it in 2 years will devalue it sooo much i would lose much more on face value.

I could get to the garage tomorrow and find that the diff is on ots way out of it needs discs and pads all round, something as simple as that could be the end of the road for it, or it could run again for another 100K if we rebuild it.....

who knows

Sounds like a well thought out plan   lets cross fingers for tomorrows health check  

[Jay w]

Well we have been over it today.....

On the whole this has been looked after, it has full dealer service history up to 86,000, and a stack of receipts to back up its mileage.

The engine is goosed on many levels though, it runs on 4, backfires like mad and sounds like a skeleton is playing with himself in a metal oil drum!!!

we tried checking the oil level and condition but the dipstick has welded itself to the tube!!!!

had a quote for repairing the bumper, again we have saved some money there and will still have it looking good.

Progress will be slow with this due to the fact that my friends garage is fully booked for the next 2 weeks and i will be doing some of the labour, i will however be posting pics up as we progress.

So it's been saved, now the challenge is to bring it in within budget  

[serek]

how math for fit kits lpg I can hawe kits but Im not really now about lpg

[Kevin Wood]

I wonder what happened to it if it has FSH? Then again, with 20k oil changes it's neglected in my book even with FSH.

Sounds like a 2nd hand 2.6 lump would be the best plan unless you fancy a real challenge. Depends if the bores are OK to be honest, and that's starting to sound unlikely. Crank grind / polish and new bearings plus a hone and new piston rings won't be too much but if you start thinking about a re-bore and new pistons it will get prohibitively expensive. Then the cam journals may well have damaged the heads... :-/

How has the dipstick welded itself? Plastic bit at the top melted?

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

I wonder what happened to it if it has FSH? Then again, with 20k oil changes it's neglected in my book even with FSH.

Sounds like a 2nd hand 2.6 lump would be the best plan unless you fancy a real challenge. Depends if the bores are OK to be honest, and that's starting to sound unlikely. Crank grind / polish and new bearings plus a hone and new piston rings won't be too much but if you start thinking about a re-bore and new pistons it will get prohibitively expensive. Then the cam journals may well have damaged the heads... :-/

How has the dipstick welded itself? Plastic bit at the top melted?

Kevin

Over bore to 87.5 and drop a new crank in - instant 3.2

[Martin_1962]

I wonder what happened to it if it has FSH? Then again, with 20k oil changes it's neglected in my book even with FSH.

Sounds like a 2nd hand 2.6 lump would be the best plan unless you fancy a real challenge. Depends if the bores are OK to be honest, and that's starting to sound unlikely. Crank grind / polish and new bearings plus a hone and new piston rings won't be too much but if you start thinking about a re-bore and new pistons it will get prohibitively expensive. Then the cam journals may well have damaged the heads... :-/

How has the dipstick welded itself? Plastic bit at the top melted?

Kevin

Oil changes, I misread the manual on my Sunbeam and it had 10,000 mile changes - rather than 5,000 - and it was still fine at silly mileage - I used Esso in it

[TheBoy]

I wonder what happened to it if it has FSH? Then again, with 20k oil changes it's neglected in my book even with FSH.

A mate just bought 3.2 veccy-c with fsh, inc the stupid 20k servicing.  Unsurprisingly, the oil cooler is fubar.....

[Debs.]

I think cruise and Xenons are the only two I'd really miss, and they're not too bad to retro-fit. Does CD have a sunroof? (not something I'd miss personally).

Mamory on the seats

I'm interested in that option, though. Doesn't appear to be fitted to my MV6

 

Kevin

`Good to keep abreast of things!