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yeah for some reason i had taken a bolt out of the water pump, that was the problem. Bolt now replaced and no more leaky leaky. :)

Thanks David, finished putting everything back together today and used your trick of spraying carb cleaner in the choke mech and she now idles sweet hot and cold. Only problem now is i have coolant leaking from the water pump area, hope its just a loose bolt otherwise im taking the belt off...

Yeah chances are I've replaced the head gasket for nothing but its all good fun. Just waiting for the right inlet/exhaust gaskets and the I can try and work out why the engine dies once its warm.

yeah it was dirty and the radiator cap had signs of dirty oil around the rubber seal.

Thanks frank, I have made sure its for a pre face lift. Any tips on getting the crank pulley off?

My head gasket arrived today, not very happy as the inlet and exhaust gaskets are wrong and there's no dizzy or thermostat gaskets. The head gasket was fine so are there different manifolds for the facelift model or is this set for a different Micra all together?

Not to bad, just a snapped dizzy cap screw after taking the head of ready for when the gaskets turn up. Worse part of the whole job was removing the old gaskets that didn't wanna come off without a fight. Gonna fit a new timing belt while it's all apart and stick a new thermostat in there as...

yeah your right, as its gonna be my daily driver may as well get it done now while the weathers good. Looks pretty straight forward, just hope no nuts or bolts are seized

I took the thermostat housing off today only to find no traces of oil just green coolant. It seems there's only oil in the expansion bottle and I can see traces of oil around the radiator cap. Are you sure you had the same symptoms as me mas?

Oops, should of been 1988

Yeah, from eBay. The bloke bought it for his k11 only to find out its for a k10

Will take some pics tomo. Just ordered a complete head gasket set for £8, I just hope the heads ok

Just picked up a 1988 1.0 pre face lift k10 that I absolutely love but have a few questions about it. I have only driven it home which was just about 5 miles from me and it drove great apart from once it had warmed up it would just die when I stopped. It started straight back up again without...