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right thanks guys. thinking about what use have said the car did start after we did the headgasket and there seemed to be alot of white smoke! why is that? cheers

hmm thanks frank. i think the best thing to do is buy a 3sge engine. but thanks m8

Hi well recently my friend and my brother took apart my dads toyota carina e gti as some people already know. But today after taking everything of the engine we realised that one of the piston rings had been melted to the piston! can someone please tell me what may off caused this and what are...

because we have took my dadz old engine out of his carina e gti and need a lower mileage one. His had done 180k and then the headgasket went and then we replaced that and then it went all wrong! :( so now need a Toyota Celica or a MR2 2.0 GTI Engine as there the same as the one that the Carina...

WANTED!!!!! TOYOTA CELICA/MR2/CARINA-GTi WITH THE 3SGE 2.0 ENGINE IN GOOD WORKING ORDER. CHEAP SPARES OR REPAIRS. Please if someone knows if anyone is selling a 3SGE Engine for cheap?! Cheers

right thanks everyone. i did get it sorted in the end. the humming noise has gone but the pedal is still slightly spongey but it works! but thanks alot guys!

frank thats what we did... took everything off again. took the complete head off and realised that the headgasket has a leak and the colour is orangey. but b4 we took it everything off we started the car and it the tempreture was normal ( half way the needle went) so it didnt over heat! What do...

Frank just today we realised that all the pistons are really oily upset piston 3. and there seemed to be a leak in the headgasket! what can be the problem?

right thanks alot frank. seriously first thing tomorrow im going to definetly check the timing belt and get my friends dad to do it he's an Mechanic and this time make sure its PERFECT! :) frank i was depressed until you just told me that!!! :) cheers

frank i've been told that, the car won't start if the timing ain't right? but then again i do have doubts because alot of people have said the timing ain't right so im abit confused! :S But why is there white smoke frank?

Hi well anyway I had alot of help on my dads Toyota Carina E GTi on lpg and i had alot of help from frank (thanks alot mate). anyway now there's a new problem. ENGINE MISFIRES just recently i replaced the head gasket with a friend. i lost one of the leads not to long ago so couldnt really...

hmm well thanks alot guys. Hopefully by tomorrow it will be sorted! fingers crossed..

well thanks alot guys. I am gonna get it checked properly by my orginal mechanic. He knows alot and i hope this thing is not too much to do! fingers crossed!

Coog thanks alot. What should you use to clean the surface mate? Also this guy didn't clean it and there was quite abit of grease on it.

thanks sed5000. I'm just waiting for micra gt to reply to my question. please do. Question is "why does the humming noise only appear when apply the brake?" is it really the wheel bearing?

micra gt thanks for that. but the thing is, there was no humming noise before and you only hear the humming noise when braking. I best get them bleeded first thing so thanks alot micra gt.

right i know this is not a micra but still i needed some help for my dads VW BORA 1.9TDi. (i have been on the VW forum but no one seems to reply on that forum) Well anyway the discs and pads needed to be replaced on the BORA and we took it to a garage and got them fitted but then when we were...

Frank i do but only 1 appears!

this is just ridiculous! i completely hate what they've done! hope they do change it back to way it used to be!! and when you click on blogs only one appears!! where are the rest? this forum just looks like any other forum which is gay! lol i'm just ####ed off for what they've done!!!

mikey u are so correct! the old one was way better! but oh well i guess they don't like us brothers lol