I know... maybe finally getting close to completeion!

Picked it up this afternoon as the GF agreed to do the return trip, and i have to say, i missed her! the car that is not the GF.

Forgot what it was like to waft around torque filled luxury, and i worked out that my car is as quick as a 1.4 pug 206 if i use under 50% throttle and change up at 2-2.5K rpm :laugh:

Dont get tempted to use the torque, well not till we see it on the 24th!!

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lol yea dude steady as she goes

tell me about it...

everytime i complete a trip in it i let out a breath i had not been realising i was holding :laugh:

my new 'fear' is that the clutch is on the way out as the bite point is now rather high..... could just be due to rebuilding of the cylinder etc...... i hope!

Once your on the motorway you wont need the clutch!!!!

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i know - did heathrow terminal 5 to bristol m32 without changing out of 5th last night - was even doing 35mph at one point :laugh:

Figured i would pop an update in here as it has been a month or so....

Well good news is that the clutch still hasn't gone, so the altered bite point i think is just down to the slave cylinder being rebuilt..... now i said that it will die on me next week :rofl:

I have been loosing coolant at a slow but steady rate, but just topped up with 500ml of OAT after about 1500miles, and i think i found the leak from the bottom rad hose..... here is hoping anyways.... lossened the pipe, re seated it and nipped it back up, with the engine running there was no drip this time....

my metal working friend has not been able to take my mocked up update off me yet, as either i have been out the country or he has, so it looks like the pressure relief system is still further timein the future to being resolved..... if i am lucky i might get it back inbetween Xmas and new year and can open her up agin to test stuff out :)

Have to say i am proud of the mightly L-series.. fires up with only one glow plug working, even in -2 and being buried in a snow drift for a week.... good old airport carparks....

I am hoping that when matt changed the plug (the only one working) he popped it into number 4, as that one is staying in there until the head comes off, as it is a fuel pump removal required to change it..... number 1 is tight underneath a coolant pipe too..... I will know more when i get a multimeter onto it and read the resitance of each plug.... would go out and buy one, and have done it, but it was on my Santa list so no idea if it has been bought yet.... :S

Ah well keeps me out of trouble :laugh:

Glad that things are starting to go your way bud, look forward to you posting another post with more reliable miles under your belt:)

Pete top tip to testing glow plugs, take the power lead off each plug, then get a plain bit of wire and hold one end on the + of the battery and then with the other end just touch the terminal on the plug, if it sparks then its working :)

ah cool thanks for the tip Steve..... i am 100% sure that it is running 1, just need to find out which one :)

Matt did ring me the other day and told me to drop the car off with him to sort the coolant loss out... was impressed by the offer as he could only have seen it from posts on various forums..... if the cap is good and the rad hose dont fix it, then it will be HG related i am sure..... and it is not completely unknown for a HG to to be faulty... knowing my car and my current luck that would be the case..... am hoping it is being nice to me for once tho :)

Once pressure is reduced and i can use that final 40% of throttle again i am going to be one happy bunny for sure :D