blimey its been 4 months since i last posted,
basicly after some wait roose finally made the hoses id ordered and most of the other parts arrived, so we went about putting the car all back together.
sadly a didnt take many photos of this stage but im sure most of ou knw what its like to put an engine back in!!
quick shot of fitting the new intercooler in the dark!!
But it hasnt been the best of 4 months!! after finally getting the car running, and it was running exceedingly well, it started amazingly quick, couple of cranks to bring the fuel in then it just fired up. no struggling no coughing, bit of smoke but nothing that didnt clear within a few minutes.
sadly though on its way to the mot, baring on mind this was october before it was running and i hadnt had the car since early september, it decided to pop a core plug!!! bugger, so it went home on the back of the lorry!
so another few hours of stripping it back down and replacing the offending core plugs, did all three to be sure, and it was back to the mot station.
this time however he did mention that A it was to low to mot (Turned out the springs had given up and the car was on its bump stops, which it had started to crush!!) they were the same springs that had been on there the previous year. and B as a result of being that low id scraped the fuel lines at the back, so back again to swap all the springs over for slightly higher items and time to replace the fuel hoses, since i was under there i also replaced the fuel pump for my bosch 044.
sailed through the mot only needing a new abs sensor!! hoorah so back on the road after arounf 10weeks with out my own car.
drove well but due to a dodgy connection on the fuel pump it was sucking in air and as we all know thats not good, so again spent some time under the car sorting that out!!
finally though all was good, car was now feeling great, going like stink, holding 17psi easily but 2 days after christmas things didnt quite go to plan.
took a drive into work on a day off, in a bit of a mood so took some agression out on the car, as it was dry did a 4k launch out of a round about, at the top of first there was a stupidly loud bang and it felt as though the front of the car had fallen out!
i had no drive what so ever, so the car went home again on the back of a lorry
it was either the transfer box had had a fit or the diff had dropped a bearing, our money was on the second option, but whilst it was all gonna be out i decided to lay out and make inprovments to the 4wd wether this one was broken or not.
had a spare box anhow and the vts had started to slip in wet weather, was fine in the dry but soon as the roads became greasy it didnt like 1st or 2nd, seemed ok before the rebuild but i was only running 240bhp then, would imagine im closer to 280 - 300 now. so time for an upgrade, had heard excellent things about Mike Haywards Locked Boxs so took a quick trip down to see him and pick up some of his locking gears,
got the transfer box out and confirmed that i had killed the gearbox, so out that came to.
some piccies of cleaning and building the new transfer box
any how new transfer box is mated to new recently recon gearbox and in the car, just need to get the subframe, drive shafts and wheels back on, fill it all up with fresh oils and job done all back on the road,
update soon as thats done.
couple of mincing shots
on the rollers, it was so low it took them about 30min just to get it on there!! lol
fitting the VTS box
this is my angle grinding outfit
lovely tail!! my mates mrs boot build is trimmed in this rather fetching pink adn purple fluff!!
Few updates on some of the other mods its had done since aswell once its all back on the road!!
i've always liked your cav 
onwards and forwards though 
