FFS! This is torture doing this in this weather! have taken pic's along the way to show you fellow zed's the torture it is lol. Today i got the coolent dumped, water pump replaced and new coolent in. Had to spend alot of time getting the belt on right and the tensioner in place - very fecking fiddly! Panicking like hell on earth to make sure everything lines up!. Did have a moment ( and may still have that moment) when trying to try the flywheel lock with the brake - crank pulley slightly out align with the it's marks?. cams are locked with the tool so they ok. So when belt was off I just slightly moved the crank again to re-align. Am talking like a tooth - tooth n half out but thats a tooth out!!.
So tomrw will hopefully see the wife helping to lock the flywheel to torque the pulley bolt and then to put starter ( which i took the liberty of cleaning all the points etc while it out ) back on. Put back on the PAS tensioner and belt and the alternator belt. Reconnect the battery and before starting - one last check on the timing marks by rotating the pulley bolt!!. Then.............................................. .............................. Oh Feck!! hope it's ok
Never Never NEVER do this in the snow and freezing weather and never never NEVER do this without the flywheel locking tool. Wish i had just got it for the sake of ?20 - the time and hassel that wee thing would have saved!. So until tmrw.
Ps. Bloody snowing again!
