Donny XP
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Hey Guys
I have a 1.6 16 Valve T Reg Fiat Bravo, on the 17th of Feb only 8 months after having the cambelt changed the new one snapped. I'm a student at cov uni and have absolutly noooooo money so i took the engine out n stripped it down and rebuiklt it myself, the reason for the premature cambelt failure was that one of the cambelt bearings had seized and it caused the cambelts teeth to be ripped off!
i replaced all 16 Valves had the head remachined, replaced all the engines gaskets and put a whole new cambelt kit on aswell as new camshaft bearing and put it all back together myself! pretty happy withmyself aswell (whilst it was out i added a sachs clutch aswell) and got her back on the road at 4am Saturday 10th march!
thing is to allow the engine to re-bed itself i havent taken it above 3000rpm but the car feels exceptionally sluggish, she just doesnt seem to have any power, theres also a burning smell now and again which i'd imagine is oil on the gaskets, but the lack of power is worrying. it takes a lot to get her to move and i've stalled her about 4 times since the cambelt failure and had never stalled her once before.
any ideas? only thing i can think of is that the valves arent timed correctly but do you guys have any ideas?
Please help i'm exceptionally poor and cant be without my car! and after doing all the work i have n spent so long on it i deserve to have it working properly!
Cheers Guys
Donny
I have a 1.6 16 Valve T Reg Fiat Bravo, on the 17th of Feb only 8 months after having the cambelt changed the new one snapped. I'm a student at cov uni and have absolutly noooooo money so i took the engine out n stripped it down and rebuiklt it myself, the reason for the premature cambelt failure was that one of the cambelt bearings had seized and it caused the cambelts teeth to be ripped off!
i replaced all 16 Valves had the head remachined, replaced all the engines gaskets and put a whole new cambelt kit on aswell as new camshaft bearing and put it all back together myself! pretty happy withmyself aswell (whilst it was out i added a sachs clutch aswell) and got her back on the road at 4am Saturday 10th march!
thing is to allow the engine to re-bed itself i havent taken it above 3000rpm but the car feels exceptionally sluggish, she just doesnt seem to have any power, theres also a burning smell now and again which i'd imagine is oil on the gaskets, but the lack of power is worrying. it takes a lot to get her to move and i've stalled her about 4 times since the cambelt failure and had never stalled her once before.
any ideas? only thing i can think of is that the valves arent timed correctly but do you guys have any ideas?
Please help i'm exceptionally poor and cant be without my car! and after doing all the work i have n spent so long on it i deserve to have it working properly!
Cheers Guys
Donny