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Panda (Classic) My Sisley, Panda 4x4 - division north

Introduction

As mentioned before, I'm starting new thread for my recent purchease.
Bought it from forum user, deposit was place without seeing the car first, went all the way down south with rest of the cash and A-frame in boot.

First summary of the car is ( 1 is very poor, 10 is perfect):

  • Originality - 6,
  • Bodywork - 7,
  • Engine - 6,
  • Gearbox - 5,
  • Interior - 5,
  • Structural rust - 8,
  • Visible rust - 8,
  • Previous owners maintain - 7
Plan for the car is to keep it road worthy and in good mechanical nick, join Panda 4x4 UK club and have some play with other Northern forum members.

As it is now, I'm not willing to make any statement what needs to be done as I had only spend about 2h last week by checking and looking at the car in more details way.

That is my bigger worry for now - bloody milky coolant and a bit of mayo under the oil cap.

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How can I confirm my head gasket theory not having coolant presure test kit???
@CLS - your not the only one - aparently it is bloody hard to buy cheepo 4x4 without blown thru head gasket.

The rest of the engine bay seems to be fine,
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Did somebody in here mentioned a black silicone gunk as a fast repair?
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Interior as you can expect from car been used on a farm
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Not the geniune steering wheel and speedo, which does not make much difference to me at all. Roofrack presence evidence
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I dont want to know how this happened.
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Filler pipe still untouched, what sort of DIY protections do you recon?
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And time for the bad boy
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Is that gap between the propshaft and diff is normall?
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Dear FFCP section members, any comments, suggestions and observation are more than welcome, especcialy regards the 4x4 drive train i.e. leaks etc.
Have you done a compression check , that could be s good indicator Especially if a low is found.
The old listening stick is uworth a try too Bent con rod also could diagnosed. By piston travel is there any vibration through the low revs range ? External tachometer may show up the problem altering the dis may change revs as you know.
 
Have you done a compression check , - yes, all within 11 +/- 0.5psi,

The old listening stick is uworth a try too - done lots of stetoscope listening to many background noises, will use the SP digital scope over weekend and recording will be made.
Bent con rod also could diagnosed by piston travel - will do.
is there any vibration through the low revs range ? yes, bigger amplitude at idle

I've stuck one neodyme magnet on the oil dip stick, did not catch any swirls.
Rocker cover off this weekend as well.
 
Might be the push you need for the 1.4 16v twin choke growler
 
Might be the push you need for the 1.4 16v twin choke growler

i must admit i much prefer the 1.2 16v mk1 punto engine.

Just want to make it go till end of this year. Meanwhile 866 cam still need to be tested in, 16v is my candidate as well although I might get 8v with twin webber as interim.
 
After numerous laps at my favourite race track test circuit know as Oliver's Mount I can say that bottom end is fine and source of noise was elsewhere. Was hoping to get some noise records but it looks like iPhone can record only via built in mic, not from external source. Going to Hull tomorrow so should be able to give some feedback on my return.
 
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Just came back, 94 miles round trip. 'The noise ' was noticed/ present only ones for approx 300 yards nearer to top of long incline at the steepest section when I was already flat out in 5th gear doing 55mph and slowing down due to incline and front wind. Much more gentle and not that obvious - had to turn the heater fan and open fresh air vent to hear it. Clearly ignition/ timing related, with some fiddle should be sorted soon.
During yesterday's check fee sources were identified, fuel pump -diesel type sound, dizzy body/ mechanical advance unit- loud rattle at low rev, even worse at higher revs. Oil pump- really clacky through full range.
Can't do much with oil pump apart from switching to full synthetic oil as semi-synthetic from Halfords and other Comma, Mobil etc. are wearing out too fast.
Fuel pump was replaced with NOS spare unit. Full dizzy was replaced with one unit from the panda parts hoard - much more civilised operating sounds.
Summary- worn mechanical advance unit / springs were the main culprit. With the old dizzy, vac line plugged in timing was far from g/box dial where iirc should be 14*btdc on idle. With no vaccum was fluctuating more the normally, so I'm sticking to theory that ingnition advance wasn't operating correctly through out the mid-hi rev range 2.0k to 3.3k causing tremendous pinging during full engine load conditions.
Hope it does make sense.
 
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ah st.olivers mount - another thing i miss about living in yorkshire... there isn't many public roads out there with red-white-red-white kerbs lol..

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My old GT and a mates CRX cooling down at top of Ollys Mount after a little bit of Italy vs. Japan action ;)
 
Done the same hill this morning, there were four wagons and 6 car piled up in front of me so the up the hill crawler section was ideal to pass the lorries. Flat out as soon as on double lane, reached last lorry as the steepest section - all well - not a single pinging sound!


Yep, Oliver's Mount is mint for trials like accelerating, hard breaking, brake pad bedding in, ecu learning, handling and full breakfast at the café - all less than a mile from my place.


Chriss, feel free to re-visit Scarb'ro any time.


How about Scarborough cruise 2017?
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All good then great news
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Not much to update on the car i'm afraid.
Hardly any time to work on as workshop is taking the priority, meanwhile siley spare dizzy had faulty ign module, and as part of Wales preparation rear UJ had some attention as ratling noise developed accros winter and when in 4x4 some 'hesitation' been noticed on start-up

On closer look one axis had barely any movements. New UJ have grease nipple so one more maintance operation.
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