Rover Metro old start cold start

This rover metro has a 'K' series engine and has blown its head gasket, which has resulted in water being missed with the oil. The car has sat for 7 months and hasn't been started in all that time, will it start watch and find out. Enjoy

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Rover metro
• K series
• old start
• cold start
• blown head gasket

[MetroMartin]

also as long as the engine still has compression with HGF it will start, although it may over heat shortly after

[MO3MINI]

@MetroMartin We still have this car... its all green now :L it still starts first crank and runs fine. All be it a little bit noisy because the lifters are sticking a little. The engine over heats in about 10 odd minutes. As soon as water is poured in it goes straight to the crankcase and into the oil. The oil is creamy and thick, im surprised it hasn't clogged the oil pump and passages. But the dash oil light goes out straight away. Still a very good body... if someone wants to save it.

[theothertrainee]

Was this car repaired or scrapped?

[MO3MINI]

@theothertrainee hi the car was neither scrapped or repaired, we sold it on ebay but the buyer never collected it, so its still sitting there, we started it up and moved it a little a few days ago, not sure what were going to do with it

[ash7990]

I would not be running that engine if as you say, it has water in the oil - no wonder it sounds like its knocking.

If you can change the headgasket yourself then deffinatly do that. You can change the head gasket for less than £50, or do the headgasket and timing belt and probably the water pump too for less than or around £100. Well worth it.

[MO3MINI]

@ash7990 im aware of the dangers of running an engine with water in the oil, yes a new head gasket would be worth it, but now that this car has blown the head gasket and over heated it will just blow another one. what this car really needs is one of those head gaskets with the space saver shim, they cost upward of £100 along, and the car cant be worth that because it only sold for £110 on ebay and the bloke never came and picked it up, oh well i do plan to do the gasket at some stage :)

[densthedaddy1]

That is almost certainly not a blown head gasket, kettle series engines had a problem with the liners that the pistons run in, its probably the seals on these that has gone.

[MetroMartin]

on injection cars, if they have been laid up for a few months even years, a decent and fully charged battery and most will fire up straight away after the fuel pump has primed the system.

[jmurray01]

What you could try, is K-Seal.

Fill up the coolant and put a bottle of that in with it, then let the car warm up on idle.

Be sure to fix the overheating problem first though.

Also, you'll need to change the oil.

The reason I recommend K-Seal, is because I put it in my Rover 216 K-Series when all the coolant got into the oil, and it worked!

[Toyotacamry1993]

Its a Rover 100 not a metro i'd keep it and do the work myself you just need to skim the head and change the gasket. then get some flushing oil to get rid of the ''mayonaise'' looking gunk . then you'd have a cheap run around. thats if you havn't nackerd the engine by starting it up when gasket blown. :)

[pattzydriveman2010]

did it live was that tap just a cam carrier or bottom end on its way out??

[pastytit]

il buy it where are you?

[MrMoterKid]

@MO3MINI The K series was designed by Rover, but it's sort of based on a Honda engine.