Road to stoneleigh DISASTER HAS STRUCK
OK Got in my car after work last night,
pulled out of the carpark,
noticed some squeeling coming from the fan belt, thought to myself, i'll check that in the morning...... big mistake
10minutes down the road, my charge light has lit up, and i have slight steam visable coming from the bonnet, so i pulled over and opened the bonnet, noticed the alternator belt has snapped!
Managed to limp the car home nice and slowly and left it to cool down.
so this morning i replaced the alternator belt, and also the PAS / A/C belt which was a fairly routine job,
this is when i discovered to my horror that the return pipe from the thermostat (that goes into the block) is heavily coroded, so much so that the pipe has come out of the block altogether!
with stoneleigh at the weekend, and heavy work commitments up til saturday i'm just hoping i can get this fixed before the weekend, (worst case scenario i will be attending without the MX250, but only as a last resort
fingers crossed the 1/8 bsp tapered tap and fittings i have got will do the trick! guess i'll find out for sure tomorrow
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