Thank you for your suggestions. The valve clearances will be adjusted but not before sorting out the bloody strut bearing...had a nasty case of steering wheel binding and general steering weirdness today. The wheel not returning to center, jerky movements, creaking noises the whole thing, genuinely felt scary to drive at times...
Luckily its just a strut bearing that has collapsed.
Luckily its just a strut bearing that has collapsed.