Diesel Dorris Drinks | Opel Rekord 2.1 Diesel Using Oil
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- I´ve been asked to take a look at a engine problem on this amazing barn find Opel.
Its a rare thing with the 2.1 Diesel engine. Whats wrong?
#dieselengine #opel #opelrekord
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Oh Noooo !!!!!!! that Hubnut sticker has now made the car UNSELLABLE 😂😂😂
And with the Furious Driving sticker, I would check the sills for rust holes!
@@mehrzahl2219 me too 😂but Furious stickers add value and make the car go faster 😉
@@mehrzahl2219😮that’s a bit below the belt …..😆
Great video. I agree it shouldn't be painted - it looks splendid as it is; telling its story proudly.
Lovely old rekord. Don't shine it up too much but I think you should have it as a uniform colour otherwise it just looks like an old banger.
Weren't Opel one of the 1st companies to popularize diesel cars in the early 70s - long before Ford
Wow! So Nice! Love some vintage opel! And a wagon! Ticks all my boxes! 2.1 Diesel is just icing on the cake :D. Amazing!
My favourite car youv had on so far! Love big old diesels, can't wait to see you giving it a test drive
its really cool!
I didn't recognise the car at first, but when you sat down in it, with the front and back doors, handles, and A and B Pillars, it became instantly recognisable. The car is based on the GM V platform and was to be used in the 80s as the basis of the Commodore( in this neck of woods).
Lovely old car, back in the late 70s I had a Mk 1 Cavalier, a friend of mine had a 77/78 2 door petrol Opel Commodore, I just lusted after that car.
What an engine! Reminds of my dad's 2.5l CX diesel that chucked out a whopping 65hp. Your friends from Sweden are courageous, I'll give them that!
This apparently has 60hp. Interesting to drive, especially in the mountains!
Another very interesting car. Hope the issue isn't too serious.
My Focus also had that issue and the cloud from the exhaust on full throtle was something else:D
Seppo, I would also do one of your famous compression tests too. That may show if the piston rings are stuck or extremely worn bores.
And of course, a compression test is pretty non labour intensive too.
It could only be faulty oilscrape rings. That will not show up on the compression test.
Cant wait to see next video
My Volvo Amazon had exactly the same symptoms. I had its 1984cc engine bored out to about 2.1 with new pistons and rings. I think it cost about £600 and for me that was money well spent - to not have to worry about oil consumption and have to stop so often at motorway services to top up the oil in a high wind with the oil being blown everywhere but into the engine.
That amount of blowby doesn't yet mean the engine is bad. In Fiat's 1.9 JTD I had a similiar thing when it had 275kkm. If opened the oil cap when the engine was hot and working, it would spit oil drops all over me. If I held the breather hose shut for a while, it would also build some crazy pressure inside. But the oil consumption was still at about 500ml for every 10kkm, and I think it was mostly leaking by the turbo seals, cause the turbo was never rebuilt. So I didn't have to add any oil between oil changes once a year.
If your engine had worn out piston rings, it wouldn't have good compression. And for diesel of that age, with no direct injection, compression is everything. It would work badly, shake like crazy, stall on it's own, but on the first place you wouldn't be able to start it so easily, if at all! That engine can't have bad compression, and that blowby seems normal for such old engine, with who knows how many kilometers on them. Of course the oil rings might have gone bad and thus letting the oil into the cylinders, but that can't be successfully checked just with looking at the amount of blowby. Beside that 1.9 JTD I mentioned, I also had a 1.4 16v petrol engine which burned a litre of oil for every thousand of kilometers and guess what, it didn't have almost any blowby at all.
Most of my favourite U tubers are on that tail gate !
This brought up memories 😅 I had exactly the same wagon model once but it was yellow and a -76. It was such a wonderful and super reliable car 👌 But I've always wondered, how did Opel manage to actually sell a car during the seventies with a stick shift? Anyway, looking forward to the next episode!
In the Nordic countries we used mostly manual transmission up to the 90's. That must be a shocker for our American friends 😄
In Europe until today it's harder to sell a car with an automatic than with a manual. That's how it is, we just prefer sticks shifts in general :)
Ii recall these engines in CF Bedfords of the mid 1970s, they were tight to do 100,000mls before major work was required, poor starting was usually an issue, the Perkins engine was the preferred option, despite its modest power
Column change as well !
I have heard good things about Seafoam a product used to clean the internal parts of the engine. The Opel is the German side of the GM corporation who also own Vauxhall. In the UK we didn't get many Opel cars but sometimes they would rebadge them as something else, a Cavalier for example.
Cant seem to find seafoam anywhere local though...
Tec 2000
If it's still adequate for the owner's purposes and usage, just live with the oil consumption, specially if there's sufficient compression for easy starting
The options to the engine you mentioned are all true. But you can start with trying to loosen the piston rings with a suitable liquid. But even then you will no know if the rings and the bores are okay. So, that said, you asked what we should do...
Open up de engine and check the piston rings and change them.
Measure the bores and fix that.
Measure the pistons!
Add new bearings to the connecting rods and crankshaft. These are not expensive.
Overhaul the cylinder head: grind the valves and -seats, measure the valve guides, add new valve stem seals, skim the head.
...but you can do this to a second spare engine and just run this one until spare is ready.
New oil, oil filter, new gas filter, check diesel pressure.
Tec 2000
Some good engine flush could help with piston rings if the're just stuck for so many years standing
i had a buddy that drove an old Pontiac that he named "the sinner". She smokes all the time and drinks too much!
what about the car?
@@SeasideGarage 🤣
Certainly a different thing for the 70s, given diesels were still something more often found in tractors & HGVs, but were noisily making their way into cars, even the Rover SD1 received a rather aggricultural 4-pot diesel engine (2.4L I think?), and that was intended to be a sporty-looking & sounding car, imagine one of those turning up clattering like a tractor instead of the assumed 3.5L V8 thye often had... :P
It feels really special with the diesel!
Silniki te (2.1 i 2.3) cierpiały z powodu owalizacji górnej części cylindrów.
Szczególnie zimny rozruch stawał się wtedy trudny, a czasem nawet niemożliwy.
Bosch sprzedawał zestaw z rozrusznikiem 24V i specjalnym przekaźnikiem. W komorze silnika było miejsce na umieszczenie drugiego akumulatora.
This is so great (again! How do you do it?) and brings back good memories. Especially the column-gearshift and front rowseat. My aunt drove her Rekord like this and i sat next to her on the frontbench. All of a sudden, while shifting gear, she held the shifter in her hands, waving it at me. She just put it back in and shifted to fourth gear. 😂
Wasn’t the engine a Perkins? Made for industrial purposes….😅
Later my dad owned an Ascona 2.0D. Had also the bulge on the hood.
This is so great. Hope it may live long!
They column shift is cool! A bit akward to get used to... And I can understand why it would come loose at one point!
The engine is a Opel CIH :)
@@SeasideGarage i dare to disagree on the brand of the engine. I tried to google it (no succes) but in the back of my mind there’s something about Opel getting their diesels from Perkins…..i drove the Ascona 2.0D myself and it really was like operating a industrial machine….😂
@@sietse9920 I actually showed the engine to a old school diesel mechanic yesterday with years of experience with Perkins.. He did not find anything that looked perkins.
But I dont know! :)
It is an Opel engine based on the CIH engine. It was Opels attempt to get into the growing taxi market witch was dominated by Peugeot 504 and Mercedes 200D
If you do not look at the front, rear part looks a lot like a Cortina of the day.
Remember the model that followed this its was a 2.3 if i Remember, and engines were not great, they would loose compression
pleeeeaaaaaaase where can I find parts for this car we have a one and it needs an engine since its engine is completely worn out
I'd run some good quality two stroke oil through it for a few tanks of diesel.
Great stuff I have to say! I remember the days in which these cars were a bit ugly. Timeline changed this perspective! How many km on the odometer? What about filling a bit the cylinder with brake oil dot4 for 24hours in order to soak the carbon deposit within the piston rings?
Now Opel have only 5 digits on the odometer, but we think the car has done about 89.000 km. Unfortunately the engine is not the original so we have no idea of the milage.
Hoping to see how this progresses!
Would you like to own one? I have an orange 74 that is for sale, with some blowby but no or little oil consumsion
My father had one then it was new.
Even new its take a lot of engine oil.
But not always. So he checked oil level evry time he fills up.
Hmm interesting... !
I'd have thought the drive from Sweden would loosen any stuck rings? Also think injection pump possibly just uses diesels lubricity. Can you re-borrow the compression tester you had for the MB?
You have a point about that... but before pulling the head and inspecting pistons/bores it seems like a good idea to give a oil cleaner a try!
Bought my own (cheaper) tester!
Leave paint alone 😅. Large bottle of silk 50 try that
Maybe a Mercedes OM616 swap?
HubNut sticker 😁
HubNut rules 😎
For bad block test (piston rings , cylinder walls ..) no need to actually drive it - start it up on a driveway let it idle for a few min. then press the gas pedal lift the revs up to 2000/2500 and hold for around 10min. , and look at the back for blue smoke from the exhaust .
Why 10 min? :) thanks for you comment!
@@SeasideGarage Basically for the oil to warm up and going thinner thus it'll pass the worn rings or cylinders easier up in the combustion chamber , and by holding the revs higher oil pressure will increase too . Compression test and even leak down test can and will fool you/trick you on an oil burning engine , unless all the rings are bad you'll find it measures good compression because 1-st and 2-nd ring are still good with only 3-rd oil control ring being bad/worn/sticky (commonly happens on newer engines with "low tension" piston rings) and also because the oil will be already present in the combustion chamber to a degree so it will seal up like when doing "wet" compression test with adding oil into the cylinders . Have fun !
@@MrJolly-lb9je makes sense! thanks
Any relation to the Vauxhall Victor Estate body-wise?
No 🙂
Yes most likely .. opel and vauxhall used same shells generally..
It was the vx 1800 in the UK..
Those engines are really bad. Later on it will be hard to start and push out the dipstick. I had one myself, had to rebuild the engine myself. I sold it quickly after. Cam bearings usually crack too. Only Mercedes and Peugot could make realiable passenger car diesel engines in those days.
Could it be a clogged exhaust? The diesel on my boat had the same symptoms, came down to a clogged exhaust manifold. The air had to go somewhere and it went back through the intake. I'm no expert, no need to jump on my azz if im wrong. Just something I've experienced.
The exhaust is only a few years old.
@@Jakob_Leth my diesel is very young. It's more on how it's used than the age of the components. Being a barn find and blowing that much air out of the oil fill seems like a simple thing to check and cross off. I had my diesel checked by two certified mechanics and neither figured out the problem on their own. The second mechanic did call Yanmar tech line and got the answer. They pulled the mixing elbow off and sure enough it was clogged. If a diesel is started and shut off quickly and frequently without a proper warm up the diesel exhaust mixed with condensation will cause a restriction. Being a barn find, there may be rodent nests blocking the exhaust.
very likely cause! but not on this one... the engine is not the one the car was born with... (did not know that when filming) but the engine was changed after it was dragged out of the barn.. same with exhaust.
Why not retrofit a different engine into it? I wouldn't bother rebuilding that engine
Ägaren får byta till en nyare opel diesel motor ;) Jag vet att du läser detta Jakob.
Er det lovligt i sverige? motorskift?
@@SeasideGarage ja det är det.
@@AndreasLarsson95 snyyyd
@@SeasideGarage nej det är inte fusk 🤣 det enda du kan behöver göra är att visa upp den för en besiktningsman så att dom kan regga den, om den nu skulle överstiga orginal hästkrafterna. Men tar du en likvärdig men nyare motor så är det bara att byta :)
Men det fratager jo bilens sjæl med en moderne motor 😢
Skropel is what they are really called. :) The swedish inspection rules for old cars are stupid. (I'm swedish).
No, the Swedish rules are very liberal and obviously intended to ensure that old cars (eg Volvo and Saab) can still be driven. It is easier for countries such as Norway and Denmark, which do not have a car production themselves, to be strict when it comes to approving older cars.
@@Hvitserk67 It's still stupid to let people drive old sheds old sheds without haveing any idea about the integrity of safety systems which quickly seize or otherwise stop working on occasional use vehicles.If you want to keep the vehicle on the road you should in some way have it properly inspected at last bi annually.
@@rimmersbryggeri There is normally a limit to how much a vintage car is used (they are chronically unreliable and/or too valuable). Even here in Denmark, the rules are that such cars must only have an approval/MOT every 8 years.
Don’t worry. I will have it checked. It’s a big responsibility to own an old car.
@@Jakob_Leth It is a nice and sympathetic attitude to have. It is a nice ordinary vintage car of which there are not many left.
Is that a Isuzu engine??
No, its Opels own construction…
Be lucky if you can drive it like it is.
In germany, you have the choise between paying 789 EUR Tax per year, not beeing allowed to drive in any bigger city with Umweltzone while leaving it as it is, or do a restauration with new paint for getting a historic car licence plate and be allowed to drive anywhere for 191 EUR per year. Bullshit in my opinion, because this untouched originals are the real historics!
opel could not make a good petrol engine never mind a diesel