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[RonaldMcBurger]

First job of the day. Fixing the leaking cam cover (passenger side of course) on the V-reg facelift 2.5v6. Stripped the top off, took cover off, cleaned everything properly, put new gaskets on, torqued up correctly. Put back together. Car purrs like a kitten. Little smokey for a minute then seems to have stopped. Good, just burned off the left overs. Quick rev and a bit more smoke, rev again, smoke again. Eh?? Cannot see anything leaking, smoke is coming from between the top heat shield and the manifold by the look of things. Now this is odd.

Then spot water dripping at the back of the engine onto the ground. OK, so water leaking and smoking. Me thinking oil coler not fitted right. Oh joy. Another funtastic job for yours truly.

So, off the drive with that and next.... the Corsa CDti. Two main jobs today. Both front wishbones and an oil/filter change. So, first, off with the front wheels and then off with each wishbone. Actually damned easy job, 30 minutes each really. MUCH easier than omegas. Then onto that oil change. First removed the heat shiedl from the oil filter housing, then drained oil off. Now, someone please tell me how, no matter where you put the drain can, the sodding oil manages to miss? 1 litre + of VERY black diesel infected oil on my immaculately clan driveway I just did last weekend!

Then, just for fun I discover that the filter is actualy different to any of the 12 or so I have. Never mind, off to halfords as they are nearest. they can order one on Tuesday. 'dangle berries'. Off to another spares shop. They had 3 in stock! Hooray . One for a transit, one for an old peugoet and one they were not sure of.  Boooooo!!!! SO, off to VX main dealer just in case they are open. They were, but spares closed. So, I mentioned that I own a driving school and might be interested in replacing the fleet with new corsa. Oh, could they possibly sell me a filter. No, inmpossible. Not a problem. Would they take cash for the 3 new corsa's? Yes? Change for a zonk you w@nkers?

So, drove everywhere and finally had to admit defeat. Get back, put old filter back on and chuck in the 1.5 litres of oil I had left. Enough to start and get me off the drive again.

Then concentrate traffic film remover, one stiff brush and the jet wash to remove mopst of the filth from the driveway.

So, fun fun fun it wasn't.














SHUT IT!

[paul.c]

you love it

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Dont you just love cars   :-/

[Taxi_Driver]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

[Crazydad]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

 

[Matchless]

Im still enjoying my Bank Hol, Wicked Witch of the North (mother-in-law) has gone home but Ive got the wifes astra in small pieces due to a noisy power steering pump which i have been managing to ignore until it took out an 80A fuse on friday and died completely.
Got to suspend engine from inner wings and remove front subframe to get to it. And every nut and bolt is rusted solid....on a 2000 model  

[Taxi_Driver]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

[Crazydad]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or in the  Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

 

[Baron Von Spongebob]

 :-/ :-/ :-/

[Taxi_Driver]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or in the  Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

 

Naughty Crazydad for altering my post  

[Crazydad]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or in the  Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

 

Naughty Crazydad for altering my post  

Come on get started on this topic...........you know you want to

i may have just slipped a little bit on the Keyboard

[Taxi_Driver]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or in the  Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

 

Naughty Crazydad for altering my post  

Come on get started on this topic...........you know you want to

i may have just slipped a little bit on the Keyboard

Err No  

Tho do we get a prize for this thread going off topic so fast  :-/

[Crazydad]

Well.....i had fun this afternoon too......

Spent 2 hours putting up the tent ive bought for the nearly in Wales meet next weekend......so i didnt look a prat at trying to put a tent up.....

I made a big mistake.......i tried following the instructions  

First it said in the contents of the kit.....3 poles.....im looking and thinking we'll ive got 4  :-/

Then later on in the intructions it says.....take the 5 poles.....im still thinking ive still only got 4   :-?

Anyway got there in the end.. It came down and packed away in about 15mins  

I hope these Poles are not illegal immigrants  

No....there either driving cabs in Swindon or in the  Bath   Dont get me started on this subject  

 

Naughty Crazydad for altering my post  

Come on get started on this topic...........you know you want to

i may have just slipped a little bit on the Keyboard

Err No  

Tho do we get a prize for this thread going off topic so fast  :-/

It`s spongbob he does it all the time blame him honest

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Taxi driver stated it with his tent..