Jaddi01 Posted June 28, 2010 Report Posted June 28, 2010 This is a plea for help form anyone in the North East area. I could really do with some advice on a decent mechanic who knows his/her way around a PD engine. Here's a short run down of the problem I have. Bought the Galaxy (1.9TDI PD '00) about 8 months back. Needed work, such as arms, aux heater plug and recon., secondary water pump, wheel carrier, etc etc. All of which I did bit by bit when I had the time. So, all well, I thought lets take the wife and kids to Germany to visit some old friends. Drove to Dover from Durham at a steady 60mph... all good. Got into train all good. Got off train and sped up to around 80mph..all NOT good. Temp shot up to 130C. Needless to say the next 10+ hours getting to Berlin was S L O W. Had it looked at in Berlin at a cost of around Quote
Jaddi01 Posted June 30, 2010 Author Report Posted June 30, 2010 Nobody out there with any suggestions? Anyone had this done before, if so how much did it cost? Quote
chrispb123456 Posted June 30, 2010 Report Posted June 30, 2010 Hi thereSorry to hear of your bad luck, just wondered if your tensioner breaking was actually caused by a dropped valve not the other way round :( Quote
Jaddi01 Posted July 1, 2010 Author Report Posted July 1, 2010 Possible, but I think it's more probable that the guy who did the timing after the gasket change didn't fit the retaining nut correctly. From day 1 after the repair power transfer was intermittent so it was probably losening even then. I'm yet to confront this guy about the entire situation, but don't expect to get anywhere. Quote
Jaddi01 Posted July 5, 2010 Author Report Posted July 5, 2010 Well, it's going in today to inspect the damage. So fingers crossed! Quote
roy202 Posted July 5, 2010 Report Posted July 5, 2010 id take it back to the nice chap that did the head gasket, i always fit new belts and tensioners plus waterpump when im in there, it shouldnt have snapped at the end of the day. did he warrant the work done? you should be able to tell if it was a case of dropped valve or not when the head comes off!good luck Quote
Jaddi01 Posted July 12, 2010 Author Report Posted July 12, 2010 (edited) OK, nice to see the forum back up again! :) Repairs are underway this week with some less than confident but competant mechanics. 5 valves (1 inlet, and 4 exhaust), 4 lifters, 1 Hydraulic tensioner, 1 stage 3 head gasket, 1 timing belt kit, 1 water pump. Total cost on parts so far, £320 ish inc. a tow to garage of £30. Labour yet to be added. So far we also noticed hat the turbo fan has horizontal and vertical play.... We'll try to ignore that for now :angry: but a puzzeling fact is that the exposed pistons turn slightly clockwise ?!?!? Never noticed this before on any motor. They turn a few mm, anyone know why? That makes the job that little bit iffy as we can't fathom why this is the case. Nonetheless we are going for it and we'll see if it starts and runs without smoking sometime this week. If not, new engine £800 ish or cut my losses and sell for parts. Either way I'm a few grand out of pocket. :( ROY202. Not warranty, back street job, freind of a freind... plus I cant go finger pointing as his missus is our childminder...so lip biting extreme!! Edited July 12, 2010 by Jaddi01 Quote
gregers Posted July 12, 2010 Report Posted July 12, 2010 i can understand the lip biting,to a point.perhaps a guilt trip may suffice?i:e money is now tight WE may have to give up the child minder?obviously depending on other factors. must be a bitter pill to swallow spending that amount of cash and its not workinghttp://www.fordgalaxy.org.uk/ford/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif Quote
Jaddi01 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Report Posted July 25, 2010 Well, that was fun... Finally got her back. Honestly, what a problem case this was. Ended up being Quote
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