Yeah, i'm gonna double check what the battery says later after a drive and again after a few hours/tomorrow. It might have been on the low side from doing that quick little test last night then turning the car off last night pretty much straight away so might have just drained it a little more...

Righto, the occasional xyz position fault that clears and is fine afterwards probably has more to do with cable being stiff/needing adjustment then. I did try to adjust it the other day but I couldn't get the split pin out for the life of me.

Right had a couple of minutes spare to check the voltage, battery read 12.4 before starting and immediately after starting was 14.1. Didn't get chance to test on the alternator itself but the car started to smoke in the engine bay! Bad you might think? Not so! I think I have spotted the coolant...

according to the paperwork that says the alternator was tested that Kermit purchased it says the set point was 14.7 but seems to suggest that it was tested at 13.5v not too sure. I'll take a pic of the bit of paper as one you guys might interpret it differently to me.

I've got a petrol without the condenser attached so assuming things are mostly the same I will be watching with anticipation on how it goes for you and any tips and tricks you might come up with on your own so I can be ready to tackle it.

Yeah, I'll see what a multimetre says and if i'm still not happy I might pop and see the old autoelectrician whose been going for donkeys years and can trace anything electrical and repair it and see what he thinks about the alternator

Noted, not sure where my multimetre is so having the brother in law drop one off to me, after he finishes his shift in the morning. When it dropped to 13v idle got noticeably worse not miss firing but definitely rougher.

See my way when i was doing a mates p38 before I bought yours was fill via the top hose till I can't get any more in attach it to rad, fill via the coolant bottle, do a bunch of squeezing on the top hose while engine is still off at this point while blocking the return pipe and get what bubbles...

Right gonna be a bit of a long one guys so bare with me. On the way back from the parents to mine I thought I would take the longer way home through town to see what happens with coolant temp and then decided to go further out anyway to check even more. Coolant temp started off at 49c and...

Yeah I’m debating whether to get tank and hose and just suck some out of the tank rather than drain the whole system to avoid having to worry about airlocks or just say bugger it and go for a new stat aswell, with me seeing less temp than you were getting maybe it’s failed open or something and...

Yeah I thought it was rather low myself I suppose a new bottle and return hose might be worth a shot for both temp and coolant loss. Couldn’t hurt at the very least.

I’d already had a look at the blue pipes and as far as I can tell they seem fine. I’m gonna have to pick up some up dye. Part of me thinks it could still be the return pipe not getting a good as when nudged when it’s cold but still had some pressure it will bubble out on slightly on to the...

I’ve got no experience with this but personally it sounds like your parts one is working so I’d just bite bullet and fit that rather than messing around to possibly get the other one working because if it doesn’t then that’s time wasted that could have just been used to replace it with the...

Got my brother in law to drive while I looked at the gearbox solenoids on the nanocom it turns out that it is actually swapping to 4th gear according the solenoids anyway. Seems to swap to 4th around 25mph I guess what I was feeling is the resistance from the torque converter and when it drops...

Well I borrowed the brother in law, his school grounds and the school wet vac and after a long time managed to pull around 500ml maybe more from the the sponge. It’s still holding a lot more though so gonna leave off the plastic step price and the seat surround off for a while and see if some...

Well the drill pump didn’t work for the atf, I did originally pick up an oil syringe from screwfix but I checked it out in the car before I left, not only were the rubbers seals literally leaving bits in the tube I couldn’t really get it to pull a slight vacuum by holding my finger over the end...

Can’t say that it’s “fresh” what with only recently getting the car but it definitely appears to be clear when you squeeze the sponge material. I know there is definitely a leak from at least the pollen filter area on the drivers side and the other day my foot got wet a couple of times when...

Have to pass by Rotherham fairly often as I go up to yorkshire to see t’ kids.

well cleaned the blue plug and gearbox seemed to behave the same anyway worth a shot though. Found out the sponge material under the carpet drivers side is soaking wet, squeezing it seems to be clear and no sweet smell to it. O rings appear to be fine on the heater matrix and the spong material...

Good chance it will melt it, if it doesn’t say on the tube petrol compatible. Usually you need specialist stuff to resist petrol.