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Started on my Camper water tank as well as a bit more wiring yesterday & today......
(Pic was taken last night - it's a bit further on now & has a retaining frame that also reinforces the bed above, plus the pressure pump & expansion tank fitted, wired & tested, & the water level sender & gauge fitted & wired).
Test fill revealed some niggling leaks on the low pressure (tank, stop valve & filter side) that were a right faff to solve - but so far tonight it's dry with a full water tank & the first part of the pressurised (30psi) side er... pressurised.
(Pic was taken last night - it's a bit further on now & has a retaining frame that also reinforces the bed above, plus the pressure pump & expansion tank fitted, wired & tested, & the water level sender & gauge fitted & wired).
Test fill revealed some niggling leaks on the low pressure (tank, stop valve & filter side) that were a right faff to solve - but so far tonight it's dry with a full water tank & the first part of the pressurised (30psi) side er... pressurised.
That's where I got the idea, very good guy!
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Yesterday I've reassembled again my car, started but the problem is still there.
Today I'm going to check again the timing cause it's first time someone told me about the pulleys on my engine have small keys and not a nice notch to keep them in position.
Plus they seem to snap often on those engines.
I'll replace the injectors anyways whenever they arrive.
But this 5 minutes check can make me discover I've spent a lot of time and money for a simple snapped key.
If so , I'll not get upset despite the frustration of having not accomplished the repair after months of attempts because I'm now able to tear down completely my car in very little time.
Plus gained skills and learnt something new.
I'll probably get the most reliable Fiat punto 188 in the world After finished it.
Today I'm going to check again the timing cause it's first time someone told me about the pulleys on my engine have small keys and not a nice notch to keep them in position.
Plus they seem to snap often on those engines.
I'll replace the injectors anyways whenever they arrive.
But this 5 minutes check can make me discover I've spent a lot of time and money for a simple snapped key.
If so , I'll not get upset despite the frustration of having not accomplished the repair after months of attempts because I'm now able to tear down completely my car in very little time.
Plus gained skills and learnt something new.
I'll probably get the most reliable Fiat punto 188 in the world After finished it.
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Good luck!
Now I've had to repair my son's Fiat 500 a 'few' times I'm not sure the words Fiat and reliable should ever be used in the same sentence
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I had a 188 punto sporting, I put a MS2 ECU and a turbo on it, made 160hp with original engine bottom end. It was the timing key that snapped on the crank, it still ran but was way down on compression. It just slipped a little bit.
I rebuilt that engine with a 1.4 bottom end and forged pistons, made 190hp. Then one of the conrods snapped and it set the car on fire, lol
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They're pretty rough engines,easy to work on especially the older ones.Good luck!
Now I've had to repair my son's Fiat 500 a 'few' times I'm not sure the words Fiat and reliable should ever be used in the same sentence
Is your son's 500 twin or four cylinder?
Twinairs are nightmares, produced for a small amount of time ,no available parts for since as been discontinued quickly, they are oil pumps .
Fire engine family is very easy and reliable engines its surroundings are little made with the feet
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That's a shame.
I've read an article while researching about FIRE engines modified to forced induction.
And stock are capable of 120ish BHP with low boost, they unfortunately have not combustion chamber designed to manage higher boost levels than 0.4 bar .
They knock if you don't work on compression ratios.
The 16V has a great potential for boost applications since you can even completely modify the valve timing by varying the overlaps and has s stronger engine block.
The main problem with the 8 valves is in the SPI system which makes cylinder 1 and 4 run lean, MPI surely better and ours have this system
I was searching at this for the 126p.
Anyways I've checked my car distribution and found it's way off sometimes it's spot on many other timing is way off .
So I think it's the crank pulley,It shouldn't be so difficult to remove it as it's bolted on with just an 8mm fastener .
I'm thinking to modify it to fit a steel key because I know it's a single cast aluminium piece
I fully agree, I believe they are assembled by robots in Poland?
I don't understand the last part of your sentence?
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I did a turbo conversion on an 8v as well for someone, i used an extra injector controller with 4 MPI injectors in a modified inlet manifold to provide the fuel, and a decompression plate under the head gasket. It made around 120hp with 0.5bar boost IIRC, it was a long time ago now.
I thought they were MPI? The mk1 punto 60 and cinquecentos etc had SPI. Or maybe I'm remembering wrong.
I thought the timing key was cast iron as all part of the bottom pulley.
Great engines the FIRE engines. Fiat has always been good at little engines.
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It's a way to say instead of working with hands they use their feets
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MK1 Punto 179 ,uno ,panda 141, tipo, 600 , cinquecento had either SPI or carburettor .
MK2 Punto 188 had MPI.
Great engine
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1.2 four cylinder.
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My same engine, probably same code too1.2 four cylinder.
188A4000 ,it should have a variable timing camshafts,those things make the engine much less reliable,it should work by an actuator on the valves cover which operates a valve on the oil line to the camshaft.
This pressurise the cam pulley advancing the opening of the valves to increase high rpm performance (useless on a city car on the Panda 169 chassis) .
How I know it does that because it's what's happening on my car and in fact it's perfect from 4k to 6000 RPMs but mine is because of the broken timing pulley on the crankshaft.
Practically does what we do on two strokes when we lift the exhaust port ,it opens before, higher exhaust pressure and way less torque.
At least I believe it's so .
I'm now curious and I'm going to check.
But I'm sure it's not a variable lift system because we work on lots of those heads at work
Sounds like a redneck Jesus, turning wood into beer
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My boys car is the single cam engine without variable valves. Nice and simple.
