Alan Clogwyn

Depends what's wrong with it, only takes half an hour to take the old one apart and reassemble, and is a lot cheaper than buying a recon one.

My last lot was definitely over £30, and it's still down the shed unused!

On a G7 it's awkwardly located, but being fairly recent it shouldn't be difficult to actually get the old one undone.

Stainless manifolds have a habit of cracking at the welds, at that price though may as well just get 2!

Must be something about Aberconwy women, Lexie kicked my drivers door in on the Civic once.

Do they actually stop the car? You can tell when theres air in a brake system very very quickly! The rears can be a bitch to do if you have ABS because of the proportioning valve, it usually traps a lot of air, so even when you think theres no more, about 20 bleed attempts later anothe rspurt of air comes out and its cured!

Swiftcover have provided me with the cheapest quotes for the last 4 years (and by a very good margin), but having lowered my cars I can't actually use them!

Perhaps not the best thread to out yourself on?

Anyone who takes the time to look after and tastefully modify a car gets respect from me, whatvever the car is. People who just buy posh cars get none. They are the people who don't actually have a clue and are just buying it to show they have money and a small dick. Likewise people who buy large fibreglass aeronautical parts and araldite them onto a suitably low powered rustbox, no repsect for that. Most respect to people who build kit cars, hot rods or restore proper old school cars.

Should move up here, My car is never locked at home. Worst thing to ever happen overnight was in Porthmadog where it was on the High Street overnight and someone attempted to steal a dide repeater. It was an orange standard one too! I won't park my car round the front at work though as Tourists can't drive. It was out front for a mere 4 hours (in the entire time I've owned it!) and someone dented my door.

I bought my Celica over myCivic beacuse of looks, performance and it wa shalf the price to insure. I've now bought a Civic over the Celica because of Reliabilty and handling (I'll admit it doesn't look as good as a Celica though)

It'd be alright if they'd made the foort and got the wing to at least look like it wasnt sat ontop of the old one!

Heatshield

Is it a Celica?

It's just a gasket like any other, a squidgy thing to fill the gaps between two components to make a perfectly tight seal. There are holes in it for the cylinders and passageways for oil and water to reach the head from the block. Some engines don't have seperate cylinder heads and therefore have no head gasket, which is pretty cool. Why do they fail? Pressure and heat. Both surfaces of modern HGs are coated in a glue which bonds them to the head and block. Get the engine hot and this glue melts, lets gas through and pop that's your headgasket gone. This is a minor failure, wouldn't kill you car on the spot dead but would make it pretty unhappy. The other way is as above, a Major overheat warping the head so that theres no hope of a gasket sealing the gap. Symptoms? Depends on engine design and the exact nature of the fault in the headgasket. On both my Celicas the leak in the gasket went only as far as the cooling jackets. The grey one was severe enough to cause a loss of compression that eventually killed it. On the brown one the leak was much much smaller, and all that managed to do was pressurise the cooling system, causing it to blow out all the coolant and eventually overheat. A really severe headgasket problem could potentially allow coolant and oil to mix or enter the combustion chanber. This is characterised by emulsified gunk in the coolant or oil or both (mayo). This is rarer than people think. What might indicate a problem with the head gasket/how to diagnose it? Well unexplained overheating is usually a warning. with the rad cap off and the engine running, if the water's bubbling away then the HG is kaput. a bubble every now and then is not a problem as moving water does make a few bubbles, but if it looks like someone blowing down a straw into their coke wit hice then it's bye bye HG. Low compression is another indicator but its' not a foolproof test. You can get a Headsaket tester which is basically a liquid that changes colour in the presence of combustion gasses, you use it over the open rad cap and i ttells you if theres a leak through. The Brown Cdelic proved very difficult to diagnose as when it was cold it showed no symptoms, only when it got warm did the leak show itself in the cooling system.

Don't get it on you unless you want to experience life with the world's worts tattoo. It takes ages to get off! As for contains products know to cause cancer, yes they probbaly will give you cancer if you drink a gallon of the stuff a day for a year...

I signed for nothing so they must do it a lot!

Err, just plain no I'm afraid! I've never ever come across an engine that has suffered this, thankfully, and I've worked on some dogs.

Sludge formation is due to the breakdown of oil and entrapment of carbon. Since Toyota has a tendency to make engines with crap piston rings it's no suprise really, but to be fair using cheap oil and not changing it regularly enough will be the primary cause. Use proper synthetic stuff and change it before it looks like treacle on your dipstick(You are checking your oil regularly aren't you?)

It did, and I told the company it's here waiting to be collected to be sent to the guy, I even emailed him and said if yoy're waiting for your stuff it's here. I left it 2 weeks al lwrapped back up and ready to be collected but no one showed, and no one emailed me back. To be fair it wasn't very high quality stuff, I'd have been very peaved if I'd paid the £700 for it. Obviously they don't have very good dispatch staff or customer service team either!

I received £700's worth of TVR parts from ebay I never ordered. emailed the seller, and they never replied to me. Even had the invoice in there to some guy in Yorkshire. I sold them on ebay.

Different. Gen 6 is the same as Gen 7 and RAV4 though. Gen 5 is the odd one out, only the Hilux shares the same ones.

Only stickers on my car are as JDM as they get, installed at the factory in Japan! I don't get it?

Gen 5 Celica, Vauxhall Nova mk2. Still I think HIDS should be banned, the yare the most dangerous thing I come up against on other people's cars.

We used to use big versions of these for air pipes on air cooled Lister diesels, they didnt last long.