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Bad news... engines giving out 15 psi at most so it looks like its stripping time again, time to spend even more money on it.

Aidan is sending me the pressure tester tomorrow, very good of him :D If the engine needs stripping i need to get the van back to my house, about 5 miles away. Am I likely to make the damage already done worse, even if I keep the revs up enough for the oil light to stay off? I really need to get it ...

Cheers Aidan thats good of you I may take you up on that, will let you know later on as I will phone round and hope someone local has something so I can fnd out today. Was hoping to find out this morning so I can get another van sorted as a run around, by the sounds of it I will be lucky to find one...

Thanks for the info, So what sort of pressure should I be getting from the low and buzzer of doom switches? I know what they go off at, but not sure how much higher pressure should be at. So the testing pressure should be at fast idle ish then? I agree the only way to tell damage is to strip it, whi...

Fair enough, but are we liikely to be talking all the bearings, crank, big end, camshaft? I will take the van to a local garage in the morning and see if I can borrow their tester and do it outside the garage. I take it will a standard compression tester do the job aslong as it screws in and can rea...

Lol basically hope for the and wait to see what a pressure test says!

I will update tomorrow, thanks for the help

The different piston is definately making the oil light act abit different, though i do understand what you are saying about the pressure. It would be good to know if the problem is from 100 miles driving with low oil pressure because of the valve, or the low oil. Im assuming that could/would make a...

I replaced the piston with the one from my old engine this morning. Went for a drive and to start with the light went out, then it started to flicker abit and came back on. Now it seems to come on always at idle and seems to be harder to go off but flashes differently than before, not as regular les...

Thanks for the reply Mike, My fingers were clean! So should the valve piston pretty much drop out if the spring isn't behind it? I think it pushed all the way up and I could spin it round with my finger but it wouldn't come back out. I think im going to get the valve out tomorrow and put in the one ...

Just spoken with a mate and he said is the relief valve working ok. I remember when i put the valve in and pushed it up into the hole it went in ok, but stayed where it was when i tried to get it back out with my finger. He said that could trigger a sensor to say there was low oil pressure.

Didnt make it to the nursery ended up setting off once we got up Friday morning, it was chucking it down and we just wanted to get home! Well the van story continues, and gets worse.... It turns out some wires at the front of the van had been grinded through when i cut out abit of the front panel. G...

90amp alternator is broken doesnt work at all, but the excitation wire was also broken.

Fixed the wire and have put the 45amp alternator back on.

I think that earth by the coil is connected, though it looks very small and abit pathetic. I hope its not the alternator, I tried to put the old 45amp back on but can't find the pulley nut and its not a standard thread size as I tried to get another. The new alternator looks pretty much the same as ...

Yep all the mod cons in the tent, internet phone works well apart from for some reason it won't send private messages on here just previews them instead of sending which is weird. Even got tv and dvd player for on an evening, but I underestimated the power they use and my jump starter box lasted onl...

That's true Mike, but the same could happen in many situations for example the head gaskets, just got to be sensible when applying sealant