"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
12/10/2016 at 11:30 • Filed to: None
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"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
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Met up with 4muddyfeet and helped him with his series 3 project. Front end trim and lights off, carb off ready for a clean and rebuild and valve cover off. Valve cover was coated in thick mayo so looks like head gasket is next on the list to change....
Guy Meurice
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
12/10/2016 at 13:22 |
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I just realised that’s a UK plate, whereabouts are you guys?
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Guy Meurice
12/10/2016 at 14:14 |
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Up in the North East.
Tazio, Count Fouroff
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
12/10/2016 at 14:43 |
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Are you pretty sure it’s the head gasket?
iirc simple condensation can lead to the mayonnaise issue, not necessarily water from the cooling system...
You probably already know — but *just in case* — searching “3 Series” and “mayonnaise” gets lots of hits about it
Good on yer for helping out :)
Best wishes
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Tazio, Count Fouroff
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
12/10/2016 at 14:46 |
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Duh
Apologies
“Series 3" not “3 Series”...my dumb mistake. Any possibility though that condensation instead of cooling system could do it here as well?
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Tazio, Count Fouroff
12/10/2016 at 15:20 |
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It was a very thick layer across the entire cover and was clogging the breather, so were somewhat sure. It has also been losing coolant, but the heater matrix leaks so its still inconclusive I guess.