just noticed this today driving home from school when i am accelerating i can hear a rattling noise coming from the engine bay which i have never heard before it should like somethings making contact if you know what i mean,

i had taken a look at the engine and i notice a lot of oil over the engine..could this been a blown gasket at all or am i just bieng paranoid over nothing?

I'm thinking that you've maybe lost a rocker cover bolt.

update head gasket gone as i thought i reckon itd be better replacing the car than repairing it.. i only paid 400 and she got me through my test fair deal i say

If you're mechanically minded you could try giving it a go yourself. Parts don't cost much, and in addition to the usual tools you only need a 10mm hex key, a breaker bar, and torque wrench. If it was going to the scrap anyway you won't have lost much trying to fix it, and if you succeed you saved spending £400 on another.

head gaskets is easy on these if your mechanically minded plenty of room to work aswell!

doing the headgasket on the misses rover 214 today and and snapped a head bolt

even so its not really a hard job with a haynes manual

i would say a gasket is about £15- £20

oil £15

oil filter £5

engine flush if needed £5

antifreeze is imortant aswell but still like £5

and a good set of tools for a day or 2

might be worth servicing the car properly while you are at it, save yourself some money and get under the bonnet!

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doing the headgasket on the misses rover 214 today and and snapped a head bolt

even so its not really a hard job with a haynes manual

Not the 214 with the head bolts that go right down to the big end caps i hope. If so are they not stretch bolts , and need replacing any way?

sorry to hear about your car man

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doing the headgasket on the misses rover 214 today and and snapped a head bolt

even so its not really a hard job with a haynes manual

Not the 214 with the head bolts that go right down to the big end caps i hope. If so are they not stretch bolts ' date=' and need replacing any way?[/quote]

i was told they are stretch bolts, and snapped one of the new ones!

still havnt finished it, me and a mate got in trouble doing a gasket on the same car of his so i will finish mine when i know a bit more about them

If you're mechanically minded you could try giving it a go yourself. Parts don't cost much, and in addition to the usual tools you only need a 10mm hex key, a breaker bar, and torque wrench. If it was going to the scrap anyway you won't have lost much trying to fix it, and if you succeed you saved spending £400 on another.

You missed the copper gasket scraper!

i was told they are stretch bolts, and snapped one of the new ones!

Correctly, and AIUI that means that changing a head gasket on these things (uniquely for an otherwise reasonably normal 1.4l 4 cylinder FWD) is an engine out job :eek:

Correctly' date=' and AIUI that means that changing a head gasket on these things (uniquely for an otherwise reasonably normal 1.4l 4 cylinder FWD) is an engine out job :eek:[/quote']

engine out?!

can't see why :S i havnt had the engine out and the jobs done!

engine out?!

can't see why :S i havnt had the engine out and the jobs done!

I understood that you had to replace the through bolts that connect the crank bearing basket to the cylinder head?

the bolts are like a foot long, go through the head, and the block into the sump where there is an oil rail (bolted to the block) and the head bolts bolt into it. nothng falls out because that oil rail is secured in with two bolts

So British Laylow were bright enough to secure the bearing basket to the block, and make the through bolts come out the top!!!?