Ok long time no update!
I went away again to try some ozzy farming
Anyway skip a load of swearing boring info about carp you won't be interested in and we are here!
Long story short, after the paint was all finished I built the car back to how it was before the pre paint strip down.
All was good in the land of Harry and everything was slowly but surely coming together. Got the old girl running (music to my ears) but heavens forbid the engine was smoking like a choked up old diesel... Got it to the mot station and matey said and I quote "not a f****** chance mate" splendid.
We tried everything we could to avoid rebuilding the engine but yep it was needing it, it seemed.
So out the lump came (again) and we set to finding the oil burning issue which turned out to be the oil control rings on the inner sides of the rotors. Apparently this is a common issue.
After pulling it all apart it was obvious what was wrong with the rings. Non of them were any good so out they came and the rotors went for a nice relaxing dip in the parts cleaner
Oh well, after about 2 months of waiting I got a new set of rings and rotor housing seals from a company up near Manchester called Hurleys Rotary. Would recommend these guys to anyone with rotary issues, he knew his stuff and was dead straight with what he knew we needed and didn't need.
One thing I'm never ever ever ever doing in any time soon is rebuild in one of these sodding engines.
Pictures will show but if you're not sure you place your front engine iron down and build the engine back to the flywheel. First job though was to fit the new oil rings and the springs that sit lower side of the rings to keep them pushed out on the side walls of the irons to actually stop the oil leaking out past and burning.
And then the side seals (to hold compression), side seal springs, the little round lugs to keep the apex seals square and the springs that keep them flush the same as the side seals.
Then simply pop that On the front housing, line it up the right way round and slap the apex seals in (these follow around the inside of the rotor housing to make the compression). Little trick I thought of to stop them falling out was to hold them in with a rubber band until the rotor housing was placed over the top to hold them. Then make sure the top side of the rotor has all its seals,put the crank shaft in.
Then you can pop your first rotor housing on with its compression and water seals in.
Then the middle iron and next rotor
Remember to take out the rubber band I nearly forgot!
Top iron on bolts in and torqued up ready to go
New gaskets on the front and new oil drive and chain
And back in!
Painted the bulk head cover too
After a while faffing about with it got it running right and tuned up. Goes well and no smoke!
Mot man passed it with an advisory of no more oil sprayed underneath (think he got dirty although I did spray about half a gallon under there the night before!)
No just working on upping the brakes a little bit
Renault 21 vented disc conversion
Just working on getting some calipers in there somehow.
Got an issue though if anyone can help. I'm after some hub centric pcd adapters to change my rear wheel pcd from 4x101.6 to 4x108 ford fitment. They make the same wheels that I have, in 15x8 but only in ford fitment. As the viv is the same fitment as mini it's hard to find 15s in that pcd and my top end speed is pretty sh ite so an idea I had was run 15s on the back with a low profile and 13s on the front with a 65/70 profile tyre to give the same outside diameter without looking to drag car silly. So yeah if anyone can help me there that would be
by haza1024 » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:24 pm 
