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370 Oil Gallery Gasget Failure...By By Engine


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keeping an eye on this dicky cause I live in Newcastle and need them done on my hr aswell :/ be nice to know about your experience and prices with them :)

 

Not sure if you noticed my earlier post that Falcon Performance charge £686 for this job all in and have apparently done this job before.

Spoke to three main dealers, Benfield motors (Lookers), Wylam Garage in Hexham, and Vic Young in South Shields. None were aware of the problem. Benfield "thought" it would be around a 5hr labour job at £120/hr plus parts but could be more. Vic young were thinking labour alone would be around £1000. So it's a no brainier that Falcon in Middlesborough is favourite.

Spoke to the service manager at Vic Youngs. He said he would go for fitting a pressure gauge as hecdidnt see it as a likley problem having talked with Nissan engineers

 

I must admit I'm going around in circles with this. One minute I'm all for fitting the gaskets next I'm for the pressure gauge and monitoring it. As far as i can tell the HR engines are most at risk, due to age, while the newer VQ engines are still at risk but not as risky due to being younger??? Who knows.

To be honest im now changing my mind again. I've checked with my breakdown recovery company Britania who say that if I break down more than 10 miles from home then they will transport the car anywhere in the UK. So thinking of fitting a pressure gauge, stop as soon as the pressure drops, then have the car taken to Falcon.

Finding a decent pressure gauge with the same red display is proving to be a bit difficult. If anyone has any info on fitting a gauge I'd appreciate hearing about it

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I bought the car for my daughter,s graduation present and to be fair it's her first car

 

I obviously had the wrong parents, my first car was a clapped out Ford Escort.

I was in the same boat but mine was an old Austin A40 Summerset that I had to buy from my dad ( tight sod) a ford escort would have been luxury :)

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My brain is now hurting very very much!

Just realised this morning, having read several more threads on low oil pressure, that i didn't know which engine was in my daughters 2010 car. I'd been thinking it had a VQ engine and even though I knew it had paper oil gallery gaskets it was less likely to suffer the gasket blow out problem which appeared to affect the HR engines more.........WRONG !!

 

I now know that all engines codes start with VQ and that it's the last letters which define the engine type IE hers is a VQ37HR.

So making my gasket worries increase dramatically. Now back to getting them replaced rather than monitoring oil pressure. BUGGAR, BUGGER, BUGGER !

I'm getting old you know and I'm not well either :)

 

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My brain is now hurting very very much!

Just realised this morning, having read several more threads on low oil pressure, that i didn't know which engine was in my daughters 2010 car. I'd been thinking it had a VQ engine and even though I knew it had paper oil gallery gaskets it was less likely to suffer the gasket blow out problem which appeared to affect the HR engines more.........WRONG !!

 

I now know that all engines codes start with VQ and that it's the last letters which define the engine type IE hers is a VQ37HR.

So making my gasket worries increase dramatically. Now back to getting them replaced rather than monitoring oil pressure. BUGGAR, BUGGER, BUGGER !

I'm getting old you know and I'm not well either :)

Having read up on most of the reliability issues I will be 100% getting this done as soon as money allows, it takes away as far as I can tell the only issue the VQ engine has in terms of premature death. From the sounds of the other posts about this by the time the oil pressure drop is noticed it may be too late anyway.
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My brain is now hurting very very much!

Just realised this morning, having read several more threads on low oil pressure, that i didn't know which engine was in my daughters 2010 car. I'd been thinking it had a VQ engine and even though I knew it had paper oil gallery gaskets it was less likely to suffer the gasket blow out problem which appeared to affect the HR engines more.........WRONG !!

 

I now know that all engines codes start with VQ and that it's the last letters which define the engine type IE hers is a VQ37HR.

So making my gasket worries increase dramatically. Now back to getting them replaced rather than monitoring oil pressure. BUGGAR, BUGGER, BUGGER !

I'm getting old you know and I'm not well either :)

Having read up on most of the reliability issues I will be 100% getting this done as soon as money allows, it takes away as far as I can tell the only issue the VQ engine has in terms of premature death. From the sounds of the other posts about this by the time the oil pressure drop is noticed it may be too late anyway.

 

I agree. As I've said before this has had me going around in circles,...replace the gaskets, fit a pressure gauge and monitor, all driven by this unexpected high cost to repair. But what cost should the engine blow!

You could fit the gauge and forget to monitor it one day then give the car a sudden "blurt" on a clear road and "bang" the damage is done. As much as it costs and as much as it hurts, I've finally decided to get the work done.

Hay ho better safe than sorry.

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As per our PM conversations you have stuff in that kit that you did not have to buy if just doing the Gally gaskets.

 

Also, why replace like for like when upgraded is available for much less ? :surrender:

I was of the opinion this kit replaces all seals and gaskets that are disturbed in the process of stripping down and putting back together?? Is that wrong ?

 

I was told by z1 that these are oem but the uprated ones not the paper ones ?

Now I'm confused ?

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Well that's it, mines gone in to Falcon performance today to have the gaskets replaced. Let's hope that's the end of it.

 

By the way spoke to the guy there and asked for a ball park figure if the clutch needed replacing. Well apparently the fly wheel is

"moocho" expensive on the 370 and if it needs changing along with the clutch it can be around a £3K job :(

So no racing starts from now on. Ya hear!!

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Did you ask him to take some photos

Im starting might soon

I'll be interested as to if yours had gone or not

 

Sorry I didn't. I forgot !

Im pretty sure my gaskets were in tact and I'm only changing them as a precaution.

 

Unfortunately I had several things I wanted to speak to him about, including checking over the car condition before work began, ensuring the guy doing the work has done this job before and that care is taken to avoid damage, plus other issues I wanted addressed.

If you look at the the pinned post near the top of this section there are pictures there or links posted by forum members.

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Tha gaskets have now been replaced along with some additional oil seals and O rings. Falcon Performance, ran by Steve and brother Dane, appear to have made a Proffessional job, which I am well pleased with. The job cost a little more than quoted but I had given instructions to replace anything that looked iffy, which they did. They kept all the parts removed and replaced the oil, filter, coolant etc.

The job took a bit longer than expected due mainly to the timeline chain cover which was well stuck on. However they absorbed the majority of the additional labour.

 

The most satisfying bit was that they fully believe that my decision to have the gaskets replaced was a good call (lucky I suppose) because they found that all of the gasket cover screws were just finger tight ! and would have given seriousness problems not much further down the road.

 

They have taken pics of the whole job and will send them on to me. I will post them as soon as I can figure out photobucket.

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Tha gaskets have now been replaced along with some additional oil seals and O rings. Falcon Performance, ran by Steve and brother Dane, appear to have made a Proffessional job, which I am well pleased with. The job cost a little more than quoted but I had given instructions to replace anything that looked iffy, which they did. They kept all the parts removed and replaced the oil, filter, coolant etc.

The job took a bit longer than expected due mainly to the timeline chain cover which was well stuck on. However they absorbed the majority of the additional labour.

 

The most satisfying bit was that they fully believe that my decision to have the gaskets replaced was a good call (lucky I suppose) because they found that all of the gasket cover screws were just finger tight ! and would have given seriousness problems not much further down the road.

 

They have taken pics of the whole job and will send them on to me. I will post them as soon as I can figure out photobucket.

I have been told it's the case of those screws being finger tight in a lot of cases

 

 

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