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Post by robcool on May 23, 2018 12:56:28 GMT 1
Hi everyone,
I have an N13 Sunny saloon 1.6 GA16S.
The head gasket went on Sunday on my way back home from a fairly long drive, stupidly I carried on as long as I could before it finally stopped (still turns over and I drove about 30 miles stopping a few times to cool it down). Still, I've driven 33k miles in a year and a half, not bad going! Its currently on 92K miles.
Luckily oil hasn't mixed with coolant but it did start to burn oil just before I stopped the car.
When I try and turn it over now it splutters and tries to start but sounds like air being pushed out which I guess is the warped head.
I'm going to take the head off during the week and check for damage, hopefully I haven't fried the piston rings so I only need to change the gasket and get the head skimmed. If the engine is a write off what are my best options?
Find another GA16S engine which I have found but don't know a price yet?
SR20DE swap, what work needs doing and how complex is it? if its easy and going to cost not much more I might as well do that.
Any engines that'll fit that you guys know of or have laying around. I've been having a look, would a GA16DE fit straight to my gearbox? I've read that it shares the same block and crank as the other GA16's and I've found a few 1.6 Primera's and Almera's I could use to strip the necessary wiring so would be a fairly easy swap? I've also seen 100NX's share the same engine (GA16DE) if it fits to my gearbox it should be an easy swap just sorting out the looms which shouldn't be too difficult!
Any help would be great, I want to fix it I don't want to get rid of this car its been too good! I don't have however a massive budget, being an apprentice and renting a house money is a bit tight !! |
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