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Hi, no, I don't drive it , I will recheck the valves this week and I think take the head off again this week end , clean everything well and send you guys a picture

Hi Steve, I did yesterday, over an hour , still smoking exactly the same this morning

Another thing , it smokes a lot less after warming up and when warm and pressing the accelerator all the way down does not smoke at all

Hi guys, just done a compression test , I have 350psi in cylinder 3 and 4 and 250psi in 1 and 2

yep... exactly

no didn't, forgot about that, what is the exact gap , 0.2mm isn't it ? or 0.25mm ?

I checked the pushrod, they look all good. FOR EVERYONE, I had a long convo with turboman and aparently he said that it is very likely to be a cracked block ... Could be head and gasket but it has been pressure tested and changed. I've got a bit of pressure coming out of the oil filler cap and...

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Thanks a lot for your offer but I'll be at work tomorrow morning :/

ok , will do that today then

alright great, yes, didn't know that , was just pushing stupidly for 15min for no reason haha.

ok, The story is pretty much what I just wrote: try to start one day, does for 2 sec then cut off, starting motor spinning then not, changed battery and starter motor, few loud bangs and a few tries later, it started but also started smoking and leaking

ok, yes that is exactly what I thought of doing, just checking if it is actually usefull or not, thanks for the tip

ok , will do , I thing I've got 1 really short coming out of the turbo , 1 going to under and another one or maybe 2 after that, will check later

Yes I just thought I coud check at least one of the 3

Hi Steve , What do you mean by boxes ? Yes I'll try that today , will try to go around and fill up the tank at the same time

One more thing, when I pump the lift puml manually , is there supose to have any resistance ? Because it feel really soft and nothing come out of the fuel filter bleed screw

I know but it could be a fairly quick check doable now ? I don't feel good spending the day doing nothing :D

wouldn't that be a possibility ? somehow when I change the starter motor a heard a few loud 'bangs" before it actually start ( before the smoking problem the car didn't start and I changed the starter motor and that is when all this smoke started ) BY THE WAY , talking about that , the main...

Haha , yes I might do that, yes, just by sticking the timing pin and undo that cover, here is the link , tell me what you think: Because I was talking with Dippypud and she's got a point , I ordered all the parts but don't have everything yet , so might as well wait for everything and change...

Hi everyone, I just checked online, and apparently I can check and adjust the FIP timing simply by removing the 3 bolts cover plate at the front of the cam belt cover, without having to strip everything out. Is that something that could lead to my problem ? and is it really possible ? turned out...