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hi everybody this is my first post and i'm crap with the computer, so should be fun i've had my westy now for three years doing a lot to him, as in porsche steering wheel bmw cream leather front seats bmw bbs 16 wheels lowered custom exhaust i made and sourcing the correct interior as the 1 that was in it when i purchased him i think may have come from a caravan. and done the couple of bits of bodywork wich i,m going to get him resprayed soon. anyway about us the first outing we (me and the misses) had out, i dropped a socket set into my running low mileage engine, wich ripped the cambelt off and completely f****d it. so i did what anybody else would do and went from a 16d to a 1.9d wich i patted myself on the back for, having never fitted any engine b4 it ran and has been great. but i now have a new problem wich has ended up in the bogey bus sitting on my drive for the last six months . i was happily driving home moaning about it needing a bit more poke to it when i went around the roundabout pulled up at the lights and my engine decided to rev all the way to the top of his voice so i pulled the key out but he carried on shouting, now im not a violent man but i wasn't taking his abuse so i shouted a few choice words back at him and gave his dashboard a right good seeing 2, whilst being smoked out eyes watering and ears bleeding, any way he won because at that point i got out and ran to a safe distance thinking he was about to self combust, the road was covered in black smoke and he then made a small bang noise followed by oil out of exhaust and a few sparks, i left it 10 min then tried to start it again but hes stubborn, so i waited another 10 as i figured this works with the misses so why not bus, and it did i got it home about a mile and a half and it was fine untill i left it for a few hours and hes never ran since. ive tried a few times he turns over with a lot of white smoke fine but just wont kick in.anyway i hoped you liked my little story but what i would like to do now is put a mk3 golf tdi in him i'll be doing the work myself with a m8 of mine who helped me when i put the aef in, i would just like to know what gearbox is best suited i have th 1.6 and a 1.9 petrol gearbox i currently fitted in the van or do i get rid of both and put in a five speed? and what do i do about the cooling? any help would be appreciated. thanks ricky i'll post some photos of him in all his glory soon.

Man that was hard work.
Learn to use paragrahs young man!

And welcome.
Interesting story.

cheers school never was my strong point needless to say i didnt even know what you meant by paragraghs.

Sounds like too much oil - too much oil and Diesel engines run away as they start to run on the oil itself... Wow, must have been fun..

yes like being sick in your own mouth .lol yes my dipstick turned out to have been modified(bodged) at some point and didnt give a correct reading, but every cloud and all that, im assuming the sparks were build up of carbon?

Had the same problem myself when a turbo went. All you had to do was put in top gear and stall it to prevent it screaming like a rocket. Having said that, with an automatic box, your only option is to walk away and watch the smoke - until it's all been burnt. BOOM!

This doesn't help you but you'll know for next time lol.

lol i dont plan on there being a next time. although i never planned on there being a 1st time. im now just looking forward to him being back on the road again. I've got my caddy and my golf but they aint the bogie. I purchased my new roof canvas yesterday for a job in the sun, I'm also replacing the rad and screen wash bottle aswell.

hi everybody this is my first post and i'm crap with the computer, so should be fun i've had my westy now for three years doing a lot to him, as in porsche steering wheel bmw cream leather front seats bmw bbs 16 wheels lowered custom exhaust i made and sourcing the correct interior as the 1 that was in it when i purchased him i think may have come from a caravan. and done the couple of bits of bodywork wich i,m going to get him resprayed soon.

anyway about us the first outing we (me and the misses) had out, i dropped a socket set into my running low mileage engine, wich ripped the cambelt off and completely f****d it. so i did what anybody else would do and went from a 16d to a 1.9d wich i patted myself on the back for, having never fitted any engine b4 it ran and has been great. but i now have a new problem wich has ended up in the bogey bus sitting on my drive for the last six months . i was happily driving home moaning about it needing a bit more poke to it when i went around the roundabout pulled up at the lights and my engine decided to rev all the way to the top of his voice so i pulled the key out but he carried on shouting,

now im not a violent man but i wasn't taking his abuse so i shouted a few choice words back at him and gave his dashboard a right good seeing 2, whilst being smoked out eyes watering and ears bleeding, any way he won because at that point i got out and ran to a safe distance thinking he was about to self combust, the road was covered in black smoke and he then made a small bang noise followed by oil out of exhaust and a few sparks, i left it 10 min then tried to start it again but hes stubborn,
so i waited another 10 as i figured this works with the misses so why not bus, and it did i got it home about a mile and a half and it was fine untill i left it for a few hours and hes never ran since

. ive tried a few times he turns over with a lot of white smoke fine but just wont kick in.anyway i hoped you liked my little story but what i would like to do now is put a mk3 golf tdi in him i'll be doing the work myself with a m8 of mine who helped me when i put the aef in,

i would just like to know what gearbox is best suited i have th 1.6 and a 1.9 petrol gearbox i currently fitted in the van or do i get rid of both and put in a five speed? and what do i do about the cooling? any help would be appreciated. thanks ricky i'll post some photos of him in all his glory soon.

Thats readable now

kevtherev wrote:Thats readable now

Just about. I did start copy-editing it, but started to lose the will to live.

How the hell do you drop a socket _set_ into the engine?

beats me, but I guess it must be a schoolboy error

pmsl cheers, The battery died so i had billy my uncle(ssvc president) jump it, and whilst the engine lid was off and the van running again i decided to drive around the field (dubfreeze) to get some charge in the battery. I never noticed that id left the socket set open on the side. worst mistake ever.

<chuckle> You muppet. That sounds like the kind of idiocy I'd do.

kevtherev wrote:hi everybody this is my first post and i'm crap with the computer, so should be fun i've had my westy now for three years doing a lot to him, as in porsche steering wheel bmw cream leather front seats bmw bbs 16 wheels lowered custom exhaust i made and sourcing the correct interior as the 1 that was in it when i purchased him i think may have come from a caravan. and done the couple of bits of bodywork wich i,m going to get him resprayed soon.

anyway about us the first outing we (me and the misses) had out, i dropped a socket set into my running low mileage engine, wich ripped the cambelt off and completely f****d it. so i did what anybody else would do and went from a 16d to a 1.9d wich i patted myself on the back for, having never fitted any engine b4 it ran and has been great. but i now have a new problem wich has ended up in the bogey bus sitting on my drive for the last six months . i was happily driving home moaning about it needing a bit more poke to it when i went around the roundabout pulled up at the lights and my engine decided to rev all the way to the top of his voice so i pulled the key out but he carried on shouting,

now im not a violent man but i wasn't taking his abuse so i shouted a few choice words back at him and gave his dashboard a right good seeing 2, whilst being smoked out eyes watering and ears bleeding, any way he won because at that point i got out and ran to a safe distance thinking he was about to self combust, the road was covered in black smoke and he then made a small bang noise followed by oil out of exhaust and a few sparks, i left it 10 min then tried to start it again but hes stubborn,
so i waited another 10 as i figured this works with the misses so why not bus, and it did i got it home about a mile and a half and it was fine untill i left it for a few hours and hes never ran since

. ive tried a few times he turns over with a lot of white smoke fine but just wont kick in.anyway i hoped you liked my little story but what i would like to do now is put a mk3 golf tdi in him i'll be doing the work myself with a m8 of mine who helped me when i put the aef in,

i would just like to know what gearbox is best suited i have th 1.6 and a 1.9 petrol gearbox i currently fitted in the van or do i get rid of both and put in a five speed? and what do i do about the cooling? any help would be appreciated. thanks ricky i'll post some photos of him in all his glory soon.

Thats readable now

Kev you have waaaaaaay too much spare time....

i learned everything i needed to. pretty much straight away after that incident. in a way it could be seen as the best thing that could've happened.