At 6am, removed oil cooler from donor car in Cheltenham. the thread on the oil cooler itself broke on us whilst undoing, so that was that plan out of the window.
Drive to Kent anyway, about 200 miles. Realise 3/4 of the way there, we don't have the contact details for Bumbles with us.
Go to the sellers house, look at the car. Not at all as described, or as per the pics. The OSR door is completely rotton and has had an awful touch up, probably a mark on every panel. Tyres were described as "new" but 2 were bold on outer edge. On a plus point, alloys are mint, and the black leather is also the best I've ever seen.
Then we opened the bonnet. Straight away I was looking at the gas system. Two gas feeds going into the intake, just before the throttle bodies. So sequential my airse. It's a standard (mixer?) system, everything is labelled "Star*gas" lambda control.
Turned the key, started first time on petrol, ran fine, sounded very nice. Flicked to gas... bleh... died. "oh yes, said the seller, it doesn't like idling on gas, especially when cold".
Grrr.
Opened the cap for the header tank, and it was full. Unfortunately though, not full of coolant. It was brimmed with brown goo.
Managed to persuade them to lend us a hose, and gave it a dam good flushing outside their house.. got the cooling system as clean as we could. Oil on stick looked fine.
At this stage, I'd already decided it was only any good for bits, (because of the door, and mixer LPG)... so we said we'd chance it driving home.
Markie drove the beast, I followed in my facelift. It was OK on a run, but ran very hot in traffic. We did a detour on the way back due to getting lost... ended up going the wrong way (hence the long way) around the M25... she got V hot in the Dartford tunnel.
Anyhow, with several garage stops to flush the coolant system, we made it over 200 miles home...
It's now parked on the drive.
Not sure what to do with it now
