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[Webby the Bear]

Hoping so Amba

[Kevin Wood]

Yep, leave it alone now it's working.

[robson]

Hasnt anybody got the space to store that car at the scrappy.It would be terrible if it was crushed and a lot of good stuff destroyed.

[robson]

I should add that I would make a contribution to save the car.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Well as a shell it was perfectly good until the forklift picked it up, but as you say, there's lots of good stuff there. 'Disposables' like wishbones etc.. are pretty crusty, but the panels, as far as I can tell, are lovely. Lots and lots of the engine bits will be ending up in my boot by Sat afternoon  so at least some of the car will be going on to 'save' another.

Shame the non-leather Elite interiors are so unwanted.. it's a velour interior, with memory seats, elec adjustable, heated etc.. sad no-one with a GLS/CD etc wouldn't want them. I suppose if you're so inclined to change your interior, you go for leather. If not, you don't care what seats you have, maybe?

The other problem is I can't post in the 'For Sale' Section, due to the parts not being mine for sale, and I can't name a price. How long to Elite self-levelling shocks tend to last? I'd have thought at 37k they've have at least another 20k left in them? There's Xenon bulbs in there, too. I know they're a ruddy fortune from Vx. Even 2nd hand they've got to be worth someone having them?

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Also I'd love to see it put aside somewhere safe, but....  rules. For green reasons, to save the planet we have to crush scrap cars after 3 months (sure that was the time limit one guy told me, but open to be corrected here) that way, instead of them leaking oil into the soil, and being smelly, we can destroy them. This meaning that none of them naughty second-hand parts should be fitted to a car and kill a fox or a whale. And that means we can manufacture new parts in factories across the world, then ship them in oil-burning supertankers here. Then, if they're been on the Dealer's shelf for 18 months unsold, then we can bin them! More landfill! 

Hurray!! The world is saved doomed!

[henryd]

Thanks DBG. I may just take you up on that.... can you PM me a price inc. delivery for the plenum?

Just gne for an hours' drive on my lunch. Coolant's dropped about 2cm but no signs of drippage. I hope this is just coolant finding its way round the engine as opposed to a 2cm an hour leak 

Henry...... so i cant use the tap to re-thread the threads in the head. if i find out that actually its weeping (at least its not pishing out lol) what do i need to do? 

cheers lads

You can use a tap to clean up a slightly damaged thread but if you've stripped it theres nothing left to repair,the only way then is a helicoil or go up a size and re tap for a bigger bolt

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks DBG. I may just take you up on that.... can you PM me a price inc. delivery for the plenum?

Just gne for an hours' drive on my lunch. Coolant's dropped about 2cm but no signs of drippage. I hope this is just coolant finding its way round the engine as opposed to a 2cm an hour leak 

Henry...... so i cant use the tap to re-thread the threads in the head. if i find out that actually its weeping (at least its not pishing out lol) what do i need to do? 

cheers lads

You can use a tap to clean up a slightly damaged thread but if you've stripped it theres nothing left to repair,the only way then is a helicoil or go up a size and re tap for a bigger bolt

Thanks mate 

If  I find it's still pishing out (touch wood it held all the way home tonight as doesn't appear to have dropped any more) then I may as well attempt the tap.... If that doesn't work out then at least I tried. . . . Then head off  at least if it came to that it should go quicker than last time as it's only one head and I now know what I'm doing 

[terry paget]

Thanks nick. nice to see someone else can relate to me lol

Well the first thing I noticed was the cam belt making an awful noise and I thought ''hold on a sec''......... so clearly the belt was getting coolant on it    I then noticed a steady stream straight down from back of a/c pump and then a load on the tray.... also dripping

it doesn't start dripping immediately from switch on which makes me think the stat is leaking....needing time for the coolantto get to that channel.

I was dubious of the gasket for the stat. very thin. what are others stat gaskets like? 

I wonder how the water got on to the cam belt. Please enlighten me.

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks nick. nice to see someone else can relate to me lol

Well the first thing I noticed was the cam belt making an awful noise and I thought ''hold on a sec''......... so clearly the belt was getting coolant on it    I then noticed a steady stream straight down from back of a/c pump and then a load on the tray.... also dripping

it doesn't start dripping immediately from switch on which makes me think the stat is leaking....needing time for the coolantto get to that channel.

I was dubious of the gasket for the stat. very thin. what are others stat gaskets like? 

I wonder how the water got on to the cam belt. Please enlighten me.

I assume through one of the cut outs in the rear cambelt cover for the idler assemblies.