Finally have a '6, Spares or repair car now got an MOT!

[DeeTurbo]

A couple of weeks back I changed the rad,

The fins all rotted out.


Looks like someone used radweld to plug the leak.


Bought a little bit ratchet and ground down a T30 bit to get to the bolt that's under the master cylinder on the cover over the plugs.




I've not had chance to do much on the car because of other things going on and the wet weather but on Sunday I had the chance to replace the cambelt and aux belt items.

These are the new aux rollers with the HDI rollers, it's no wonder the 6' weighs so much with big silly parts like these.


Pulleys pinned.


New water pump in.


Good job I bought a new crank pulley as you can see how much the old one had slipped.


Got a Dayco kit and they've sent a wrong bolt. It was missing the M8 bolt that holds the tensioner.


Also glad I got new rollers on the aux side as the old ones were dry and rattly.

Pulley, rollers and belt on.


The old water pump looked and felt good.


I was surprised to see it was the original.


I changed the rad clips to.




Hopefully this week in the evenings I'll be rebuilding the front calipers and on the weekend I'll be changing the clutch.

For some reason I'm not feeling the love for this car. I was more excited about working on the estate then this. Talking of the estate, this week it passed another MOT with now advisories.

I found the cambelt a pain to do on this. After taking the pegs out and turnning the engine over by hand one of the cams didn't line up and also the inlet cam kept springing back. It say's it's a three hour job in Autodata. Looking at it I thought I'd get it done in two but I started at 11 and I didn't get in till 9 that evening lol.

I hope the clutch isn't going to be that bad a job.