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toycelica77 Regular Location: bris Registered: February 2003	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice?? Wed, 28 May 2003 07:09 blaze - an old trick (works on the other single cam 18R's) to test the condition of the rings when you have low compression is to take out a spark plug and squirt a couple of drops of oil in.. then do your compression test again, if the compression pressure rises your rings are rooted, but if you compresssion pressure doesnt rise or fall by any (significant) amount your head gasket or head itself are to blame in my experience with 18R-G the bottom end doesnt really need all that much attention unless you've mised a few oil changes or not followed a proper oil schedule i.e higher viscosity oil for the older the engine gets... the heads (i'm told) do tend to get tired after lots of spirited driving i'd suggest you go out and buy some stuff called called 'lucas engine reviver'(you can find it at any supercrap or autobarn) the non-teflon based stuff, shove a litre of that in and it should raise the compression a litte and stop the oil comsumption... this stuff is good as it doesnt coat the internals in teflon and make it a shitter to do a rebuild later on - the lucas stuff is great, i once put it in a dirty old 202 that was running roughly 80psi compression and it ended up giving me 3 years of loyal service, i took it apart for a rebuild and discoverd that it had been running all those years with only 2 commpression rings still intact i can suggest a place caled k&m auto spares on Orange Grove Rd for all the parts needed fot the re-buld... i went there when i was rebulding a mates 18R-U and he had all the parts ready in about 3 hours... awesome prices too hope that helped cheers [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Tue, 27 May 2003 05:01
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	THE WITZL	Tue, 27 May 2003 09:05
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	celicaboy	Tue, 27 May 2003 09:48
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	people100	Tue, 27 May 2003 09:52
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	celicaboy	Tue, 27 May 2003 09:56
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	BansheeBuzz	Tue, 27 May 2003 20:25
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	juzzo84	Tue, 27 May 2003 21:07
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Tue, 27 May 2003 22:50
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Jason	Tue, 27 May 2003 23:48
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Wed, 28 May 2003 00:36
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Jason	Wed, 28 May 2003 01:18
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	ra23celicachick	Wed, 28 May 2003 03:12
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	toycelica77	Wed, 28 May 2003 07:09
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Wed, 28 May 2003 07:26
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Mr DOHC	Wed, 28 May 2003 11:13
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Jason	Thu, 29 May 2003 00:21
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	celicaboy	Thu, 29 May 2003 07:08
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Thu, 29 May 2003 01:10
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	munki	Thu, 29 May 2003 08:03
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Mr DOHC	Thu, 29 May 2003 08:22
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	celicaboy	Thu, 29 May 2003 10:02
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Fri, 30 May 2003 03:13
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Jason	Fri, 30 May 2003 05:31
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Sat, 31 May 2003 03:27
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Mon, 02 June 2003 04:11
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	munki	Mon, 02 June 2003 09:41
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	Blaze	Mon, 02 June 2003 09:57
	Re: 18RGU Rebuild..what's your advice??	THE WITZL	Mon, 02 June 2003 12:11

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