Warning: Painfully BoringMR2Now that the mg has gone I have made a start on getting the MR2 fit to run. theres quite a lot to do, took me 2 hours to overhaul the right front brake caliper the other night but if the rest are the same I wont be complaining as it needed no parts, just a good take to bits, clean up and reassemble. so 1 down, 3 to go on that front, of course it needs discs and pads so Ive gone for zinc plated, cross drilled and vented jobs which should be here next week (excite/remorse) but they've skinned me £190.
Elsewhere the alternator is seized which is likely to be £140 ish to replace, the exhaust is blowing and looks shit so I'm going to fabricate a copy of a Blitz system (
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d79/masteryodagopi/MadPSInet-BlitZNurSpec.jpg) and I suppose I better change the cam belt and oil and whatnot. this is going to end up costing me a fortune.
Oh, and the sills are well and truly shot on the outer skin and in the rear wheel arches so that probably wont cost much but will be time consuming and could end up looking crap if i'm not careful!
GolfSo mrs W. was driving us and 2 friends back from a wedding last night, she was des and we were steaming drunk, when what should happen but the little bugger lost power then conked out. After 5 mins sitting with the engine off we were able to set off again and got 5 or so miles before it did it again and thats the pattern. today I cleaned up the dizzy cap and gave it a test run, 5 miles in and it feels like its run out of fuel, just losing power completely but as the car slows in gear it gets a bit jerky as it seems to fire a couple of times, if you dip the clutch it just stalls and thats it. Could be running dry of fuel. so I waited a few minutes then drove it to work where I changed the filter, right enough it looked pretty dark and had a bit of gunge in but enough to restrict fuel flow? I dunno, could also be drawing air somewhere but its so hard to make it do it that its going to be a bugger to find. Havent re-tested it yet due to fuel being quite expensive! Another symptom thats been creeping in of late is that when you are in a gear and fairly low down the revs, 1500 or so, and you accelerate away hard it almost rev limits. like you can press the throttle down to about 1/3 and its fine but past that and the engine vibrates like its lost 2 cylinders and wont accelerate any further, to get past it you can accelerate gently until you're up to about 2500 revs and then it pulls fine or you can change down. I think i will change the plugs first, then the coil maybe.
Comments and suggestions welcome, Painfully Boring transcript ends.