Rich
02-08-2005, 18:10
just been to pick up my valver from leeds, needed rad changing which i did up there and sounded a little rough as there is oil down number 4 (nothing a new rocker cover gasket wouldnt sort!) so took it for £600 sold as seen (needs a bit of bodywork attention) anyway sets off to find idle control valve is ****ed, no problem i have a spare! got to the lights and it dies, wouldnt turn over. after a few minutes ****ing about phoned the bloke to gimmie a jump start, turns up and it still wont have it so we tried to tow it comes to pull off and tow eye snaps clean off bringing the bumper with it! so then we ****ed about and realised it was a dodgy negative terminal connection, fixed that and set off back to the garage to fix the bumper back on for the drive home, got halfway back there and it just locks the wheels up!
thought the oil dials weren't working so oil pressure would not read properly (dash out and re-connect jobby) at this point i found out the guages were working but there was no oil pressue, the end result....you guessed it siezed bottom end! so we try to tow it back to garage again using 2nd tow eye, set of uphill and the other eye snaps too :x so end up tieing round the subframe to get it back to the garage its now half 3 and i was at the garage for half 9!
spoke to the guy and we agreed for him to pay for the recovery truck home (£100 bill) so now i have to wait for a friend to pick the car up form sheffield and take it to lincoln to put my other engine in from the scrapped valver conversion (hopefully this weekend gotta pay for a new oil pump @ £110 (richy the legend for getting it me) and no car for a week! what a shit day! grrrr i ****ing hate renaults!
thought the oil dials weren't working so oil pressure would not read properly (dash out and re-connect jobby) at this point i found out the guages were working but there was no oil pressue, the end result....you guessed it siezed bottom end! so we try to tow it back to garage again using 2nd tow eye, set of uphill and the other eye snaps too :x so end up tieing round the subframe to get it back to the garage its now half 3 and i was at the garage for half 9!
spoke to the guy and we agreed for him to pay for the recovery truck home (£100 bill) so now i have to wait for a friend to pick the car up form sheffield and take it to lincoln to put my other engine in from the scrapped valver conversion (hopefully this weekend gotta pay for a new oil pump @ £110 (richy the legend for getting it me) and no car for a week! what a shit day! grrrr i ****ing hate renaults!