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Hi Guys Going on the theory that the oil preasure was too high and over preasureising the hydraulic lifters I drained the engine oil and replaced it with the lowest voscosity oil that i could buy which was W10/30 .I dont know what the old oil was but it took double the time to flow through a home ma...

Hi Deawoomofo & Trey05Woo, Regarding piston damage when the timing belt broke:- Very slight surface markes to the piston crowns ( very lucky ) no need to polish or dress same . This is where it gets interesting :- compression test starting with a cold engine 4 plugs removed Cyl 1 @ 165psi . cyl 2 @1...

Hi Daewoomofo. When the tining belt tensioner bolt snaped 9 mths ago I had the head re-faced new valves, guides,springs & cam followers (rockers) cylender head bolts Gasket ect . I am sure of the Y O M . I have been living in Perth in Western Australia for the past 25 years . I was born in Dublin Ir...

Thank you for your reply.You are correct about the year of manafacture it is 4/1999 .However all the other info is correct .I have just come back from my garage after checking the Y O M and started the engine and as orignal email it started ok but after ten seconds or so stoped firing on number one ...

Hi guys, first time to log on to this lifesaving web site. My daughter has a1996 1.6 Ltr.SOHC Lanos which broke a timing belt about 18 months ago which I repaired but about 2 weeks ago the motor started to act up. The engine starts up as normal but after about 10 seconds number one cylender stops fi...