Well Tom, I spent all day on my car too. Firstly was sorting the oil leak from the rocker cover since coming back from that forced top end rebuild a few months back L This proved to be traumatic as I found further evidence of incompetence and unbelievable shoddy workmanship, like not cleaning block head surface before putting gasket on (and not renewing), tightening all the rocker cover bolts so much that they could not be undone using a normal Allen key, I had to use an extension bar from my trolley jack and even through that leverage I could feel how tight they were, obviously done up with an air gun and not torqued to near 8Nm like they are supposed to be.
The worst was when looking at the dizzy I found that they had snapped one of the studs that clamps down the end cam cap that the dizzy attaches to, and left the other piece of stud and nut in situ so looked like OK until you tried to undo it and it just spun. Naturally the Vauxhall parts guy didn’t have a clue what I was on about on the phone, and they didn’t have one in stock when I went down so have bodged with a long M6 bolt for now as need car for starting new job on Monday.
All afternoon was spent putting the interior back in, after welding of 2 new sills and a couple of floor bits and replacing some sound proofing (I know these are like dirty words but I’m not a fan of nearing ever little stone that hits the bottom of the car on my daily driver).
After very minimal driving of my car since last summer for various reasons, I will now be using it probably 7 days a week as of Monday. I might even invest in some research driving in case I have spare funds available later in year, 2 new Yokohama tyres are first on list though with MOT next month J
Dan
