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What have you done to your Elgrand today?

Mincerpies said:
Today after checking spark plugs after a misfire, cylinder 3 was full of oil. My problem is do I scrap or invest in fixing. Not good timing with family stuff going on. Think might be saying goodbye to Elli.
Don't think its ever been de cored, too much for me to think about.
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Sounds like it could have a leaking rocker cover gasket, If that is the problem it is fixable. Just got to find a mechanic up for the job.
 
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Mincerpies said:
does that mean its not scrap?
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A bit of oil in the spark plug tunnel is no reason to scrap. The oil wont really affect much apart from softening the rubber bits on the coil pack. If it has a misfire probably just needs a new coil as they are prone to failure oil or no oil.
 
Mincerpies said:
does that mean its not scrap?
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Big difference between oil in the cylinder and oil in the spark plug hole.

You described oil in the spark plug hole, we would expect a new cam cover and gasket to fix that.

If there was/is a misfire on the same cylinder as the cylinder that has its spark plug hole full of oil it is possible that the oil has effected the coil working properly. The coil might need replacing or just cleaning it up might fix it.

I've replaced gaskets / changed cam covers on plenty Elgrands and will be changing cam cover gaskets on another Elgrand in a couple of days.
 
Happy New Year hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable one. Hey all not asking a technical advice just to locate if it has been asked before, but my tailgate intermittently works. It stops working I pull the fuse put it back in and works fine for a little bit I have replaced the IPDM but still the same thing has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction. P.S: I have searched but with no luck.
 
Boorny said:
Happy New Year hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable one. Hey all not asking a technical advice just to locate if it has been asked before, but my tailgate intermittently works. It stops working I pull the fuse put it back in and works fine for a little bit I have replaced the IPDM but still the same thing has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction. P.S: I have searched but with no luck.
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Lpgc said:
Big difference between oil in the cylinder and oil in the spark plug hole.

You described oil in the spark plug hole, we would expect a new cam cover and gasket to fix that.

If there was/is a misfire on the same cylinder as the cylinder that has its spark plug hole full of oil it is possible that the oil has effected the coil working properly. The coil might need replacing or just cleaning it up might fix it.

I've replaced gaskets / changed cam covers on plenty Elgrands and will be changing cam cover gaskets on another Elgrand in a couple of days.
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Is it an expensive job the covers? ill order a new coil now to see if it works. thanks for the input.
 
Mincerpies said:
Is it an expensive job the covers? ill order a new coil now to see if it works. thanks for the input.
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Not the cheapest job because there's a fair bit of dismantling to do before you can change the gaskets (and covers if they're being replaced). The wiper mechanism, throttle body, upper and lower inlet plenum and VVT solenoids need to be removed for access, a few other bits need to be unbolted / unclipped / etc, a bit of cleaning up to do (grime and bits of old rtv from where the gaskets go over the front cam bearing's), then it all obviously has to be refitted after changing the gaskets.. So that's what's involved for the labour, then there's the cost of the parts themselves. The gaskets are only about £40 for both sides but the covers are around £120 for each side.

If your spark plug hole was full of oil and you're removing the spark plug the oil from the plug hole will flow into the cylinder, if enough oil were to enter the cylinder it could cause the cylinder to suffer hydraulic lock. To help prevent hydraulic lock, before you refit a spark plug (no spark plug or coil pack fitted) disable the engine so it can't start (a good way to do this is disconnect the fuel injectors and ignition coils engine wiring harness connector plugs at the front passenger side of the engine) then crank the engine so it does at least 8 full rotations, some oil will shoot out of the spark plug hole and some will go out via the engine valves, then when you refit the spark plug and coil pack and reconnect the wiring harnesses, next time when you start the engine it won't be ruined by hydraulic lock.
 
You might want to try just changing the o ring on the oil filler neck first. When I changed my cam cover gaskets recently I had some oil in the rearmost passenger side spark plug tunnel and I could see from the oil traces on the cam cover that it had been slowly weeping from the filler neck and trickling down to the rear spark plug tunnel.
 
Got cold but done the rear diff fluid change today, regret not waiting until it was a warmer month. Wind randomly picked up so suddenly had oil flinging around which was "fun".
 
Changed a front wheel bearing on my Black Elgrand.

The hubnut was ridiculously tight, had a metre long breaker bar with scaff pole on the end of that but it still didn't want to come off even with my full weight (heavy lol) on it, had to use some heat and the breaker bar with scaff pole. Then the bearing took an unusual amount of effort to come off.

Changed the drive-shaft while I was at it because I already had a good driveshaft on the scrap Elgrand I bought for it's engine which has good gators, gators had a hole on my black one. But I'll probably end up putting new gators on the one I removed from the black one and swap them back, just a bit short of time today.
 
Lpgc said:
Changed a front wheel bearing on my Black Elgrand.

The hubnut was ridiculously tight, had a metre long breaker bar with scaff pole on the end of that but it still didn't want to come off even with my full weight (heavy lol) on it, had to use some heat and the breaker bar with scaff pole. Then the bearing took an unusual amount of effort to come off.

Changed the drive-shaft while I was at it because I already had a good driveshaft on the scrap Elgrand I bought for it's engine which has good gators, gators had a hole on my black one. But I'll probably end up putting new gators on the one I removed from the black one and swap them back, just a bit short of time today.
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Last time I had one that tight I put the bar on at an angle to the ground(touching with bus well in the air) and lowered the bus to let it’s own weight do the job and I still had to pull on the bar lol
 
Tried to come out our drive and right turn into the road and it didn't want to know, felt like brakes were on solid and there was a lot of banging noises. After some back and forth shuffling it got a bit better and 100 meters up the road I realised that when plugging phone in I must have inadvertently turned on 4x4 and diff lock! Hopefully no harm done, seems ok.
 
Lpgc said:
Also check you haven't disabled the passenger side window using the pushbutton disable switch near other electric window switches on drivers side door.
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Thanks @Lpgc ...it was as simple (and stupid) as that, the disable switch.

School boy error...thanks.
 
Speaking of which...I forgot about another fault I have.

Something else I was doing TODAY...😉

The steering wheel controls, track, volume etc on the left hand side are not working when the steering wheel is in the central position...ie driving in a straight line, however if you turn it slightly in either direction they become "live"...is there some kind of switch/cam arrangement that might cause this?
 
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