Getting a Seicento with engine problem

Firstly find the missing plug, then LED washer jets and big bore exhaust tail pipe.

If you find out what colour or condition the spark plug is in first it will give you an idea where to start.

Don't bother, save the money towards your next car.

If you can't see the LED washer jets without having to hunt, then they don't work. Or another of Ken's little fantasies has been debunked yet again, and he doesn't know any better.

How about a Hayabusa engine and box? That would be kind of extreme, but very, very exciting.

Losing it? As in when you open the bonnet it's not there? ;) It's hard to pin down without more information but start with the normal things like checking that it has had HT leads and the distributor is actually the correct one.

Hayabusa engine probably not, but I know where there's a Fireblade engine and box spare.

I'm just not sure I'd want to be piloting a tiny Fiat rocketship.

I know - that's what I've been told. My guess is that a) it's failing or b) it's loose. Probably a.

I'm picking the car up on Tuesday evening and will find out then.

David

Yes, OH yes you do.

Thanks for this - I'll have a look later this week.

You never know - it might not be that bad.

I went past the house this evening where I'm collecting it - it's navy blue. However, it's been stored facing down a slope which'll make freeing the handbrake fun, particularly as I've got to push it up the drive to get it out!

David

Push? Get a tow rope!!

SNIP

Nope - got a simpler solution. Someone's coming with me to get it. He can push.

I've re-read the notes I took when speaking with her. Apparently the spark plug "pops out", which tells me the thread might be gone.

That means re-threading the head?

David

Good man!

Chemical metal, then sell it on before they need changing :)

Is it screwed in properly ?

My dad says it is pinking...

Dammit, I'd got to all but the last post, thinking "I'll be the first to say this", and you go and bloody beat me to it. Damn you, Payne.

Thanks - it's free (from Freecycle) so I've got some spare cash to spend on it.

David

Do I sense a mild "woosh"? Apologies if this is the case, but here's a little story:

There is a chap called Peter who hangs around in some uk.rec.cars newsgroups. He allegedly had some sort of little Fiat with some sort of problem. I never worked out whether he was a very skilled troll or genuinely a bit pathetic, but he managed to create enormous threads where people questioned his and his entire extended family's heritage because he insisted that his car was pinking under certain conditions.

I feel that it is my civic duty, wherever and whenever thread on people called Peter and/or small Fiats are called into existence on usenet that I must make at least some reference to the whole pinking saga.

Actually, Chemical metal with grease on the plug threads, but throughly degreasing the area of the head.

Very bodged but as long as the head was clean enough, it might just work quite well. The plug would unscrew, but the bodge would stay inplace.

You just couldn't torque down the plug if you should.

Thanks - and no, I'm not Peter.

Don't know if it pinks as I've not got it yet.

But since the owner is saying that the plug keeps coming out - I'll look closer later this week when I've got it.

David

I thought it. I really did, but I thought, nah, he doesn't read this group, so there is no need.