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Just for the record, all now sorted. Thoroughly cleaned all remnants of the old gaskets off each manifold before re-assembling which obviously made a better seal as it's now running on all 4 cylinders & no more engine wobble at idle. Thanks!

I've checked the HT leads to make sure they're going to the correct plugs and when cranking I'm getting a visible spark on all cold cylinders. The only other thing I can think of is to re-seat the new gaskets, as a small amount of petrol leaked out of the new gasket on 3&4 last night when trying...

Told you I was a novice - will check tomorrow and post back. Thanks!

Hi,

I sprayed WD40 where the manifold joins the head (i.e.on the old manifold gasket) & no, I haven't changed any of the ignition components.

Bit of a novice mechanic and would welcome some advice regarding the following problem with a 1.9L replacement DG engine fitted to my 'early' van (Pierburg 2e3 carb). I've recently had a stainless exhaust fitted and discovered that no.2 cylinder pipe was no where near as hot as the others. After a b...

My first post and probably a good place to start is to try and find out what replacement engine is in my 1985 Autosleeper 1.9 petrol. Where the engine code would normally be is stamped VW (in a small circle) followed by .455 It was fitted by a garage under the previous owner in 1996 and any info abo...