I can think of more pleasant ways of spending V day or any other, JG , but 'needs be, needs must' (hope i remembered that correctly). I'll give some details later.
at the risk of boring people.
Briefly
- Took the starter motor from my 'spare' mondeo and replaced the one on my car which has been misbehaving (some devious design features in the way it was clamped together with the g/box casing and engine mount - has to be removed). The starter is still a little noisy but started the car immediately. I drove it over 30 miles today and it went better than before - so it seems the fuel injection had been quite retarded (i'll refrain
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Summing up : i made a few mistakes - partly due to lack of info. in the manual from a popular publisher, making the job a bit more difficult and resulting in me damaging the plastic/fibre cover for the belts (so they are partly exposed and a little risky for fingers and people with long hair if they closely peruse the 'lump' when it's running - I'll fabricate something removable, so that i can examine the cam belt more easily) The old alternator belt also appears to be slipping badly.
Fixing things fits in with my more parsimonious outlook though i always liked old cars even when I had a lot more dosh.
I'd rather invest in know-how and equipment than some shiny new ironmongery (and doing my bit not to exacerbate the recently at £7,000,000,000 per month deficit in goods - sorry can't help it
- we buy their goods, they buy us, with the aid of the financiers whom we bailed out
) i hope to keep the mondeo as i think we are starting understand each other better
ps : think i'm a dragon
