So, retiring from car work isn't going well then...
Posted: 31 Jul 2010
Having decided some time ago I was too old to be arsing around with cars anymore, I set about saying NO to any cunt that asked for help with car related things..
Sadly I'm friends with lots of people that aren't cunts so:
This is the sump plug froma 43K miles Saxo, owned and driven it's whole life by The Stig.
The clutch, gearbox and both driveshafts were fucked.
Pile of wankered bits.
Nice easy job to replace the relevant bits though, and it drives quite nicelt now.. For a few minutes.
Next up, Smiffy's biblical car:
Bit of a hole there then...
Thus far I've only sone one side, so the N/S hole / repipe will have to wait for another day.
At least he wont fall through the hole anymore:
Complete with new fuel pipes..
Few days back the TD started sounding even worse than it has for a while, and I pulled the cam belt cover off duely noting the belt was trying to escape off the injection pump pulley..
So I stripped it out, discovered the water pump was wankered (not old) so I stuffed another pump in complete with new belt.
The belt still ran off the edge of the inj. pump pulley though. I suspect the nose bearing has failed and allowing the pulley to run on the cock..
Anyhow, today on the way to the farm, it dumps all it's water, again, and sounds EVEN worse than before.
Arrive at the farm and decide enough. I'm sick to death of this engine, ok, I should never have tuned the fuck out of it, but for a £2.5K recon engine it's been nothing but trouble from the moment it went in.. So, it's going in the bin.
To be replaced by the engine in the background that came out of Mat's crashed BX. I know this engine, it's a good un, standard bar an NA cam I threw in a year back, and thats how it will stay. 90BHP is fine.
I hate this engine...
The TD is dead, long live the TD..
Sadly I'm friends with lots of people that aren't cunts so:
This is the sump plug froma 43K miles Saxo, owned and driven it's whole life by The Stig.
The clutch, gearbox and both driveshafts were fucked.
Pile of wankered bits.
Nice easy job to replace the relevant bits though, and it drives quite nicelt now.. For a few minutes.
Next up, Smiffy's biblical car:
Bit of a hole there then...
Thus far I've only sone one side, so the N/S hole / repipe will have to wait for another day.
At least he wont fall through the hole anymore:
Complete with new fuel pipes..
Few days back the TD started sounding even worse than it has for a while, and I pulled the cam belt cover off duely noting the belt was trying to escape off the injection pump pulley..
So I stripped it out, discovered the water pump was wankered (not old) so I stuffed another pump in complete with new belt.
The belt still ran off the edge of the inj. pump pulley though. I suspect the nose bearing has failed and allowing the pulley to run on the cock..
Anyhow, today on the way to the farm, it dumps all it's water, again, and sounds EVEN worse than before.
Arrive at the farm and decide enough. I'm sick to death of this engine, ok, I should never have tuned the fuck out of it, but for a £2.5K recon engine it's been nothing but trouble from the moment it went in.. So, it's going in the bin.
To be replaced by the engine in the background that came out of Mat's crashed BX. I know this engine, it's a good un, standard bar an NA cam I threw in a year back, and thats how it will stay. 90BHP is fine.
I hate this engine...
The TD is dead, long live the TD..