Victoria garage seem to be a decent establishment, they always seem to have something interesting in the showroom:D

Or just to add, my silver one was the same so I brought a new hub with the seal on and it turned out to be bearing grease not axles oil and the seal...

Today I have found clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder surprisingly simple compared to what I had read, I found that it was the master seals at fault and found bleeding is infact an undertaking, I found that I couldn't access the top slave bolt due to the decat that was spilt at the flexy...

Bit muddy around West Midlands shooting ground today....

Spot the discovery....

This was back in July, mine was standard engine and ECU and just a straight pipe and a sticking front caliper....

Hey neighbour :)

I've just been giggling reading this thread, bird in a bin I actually lol'd :D I too am in pretty much the same situation with my latest purchase, fix one problem 2 more appear.... thankfully my good lady knows zero about cars and if I said to her I need to order a LS3 crate engine for it she...

Try unplugging the MAF, if it's better without then the maf is duff....

I did plug it in today on the way to work, the only two things I noticed that seemed odd to me was the live boost hit 230Kpa early on and then was irratic and 0.00% reading on turbo wastegate :rolleyes: I disconnected the boost modulator on the silver one pretty soon after I got it so I don't...

I had no idea places/people like this existed never mind local to me :(

Oh I did take a picture of the spotted engine...

Ball bags, I forgot I wanted to get the washer bottle off my spare :rolleyes::rolleyes: Prime oil pressure - check :D

So I fired it up after the work and it fired the quickest it has fired yet and the exhaust fumes smell a lot better, it did however have a mass of black soot when revved :rolleyes: no kinda diesel knock but then it only does it when up to temp so I'll listen out for that tomorrow, I will just...

Another day another discovery discovery.... Decided to remove the boost box as I'm convinced it was over fueling, Hmmm I wonder what it looks like inside.... And I'd also noticed excessive movement in the turbo shaft and horrific oil in the inlet so decided to swap turbos with my 'spare...

Another day on it... got all rear lights working, headlight out and clean, Found some strange wire on a bar, Found a snapped torx head on the steering box, Adjusted the steering box, Fitted egr delete, 2 rear drop links, found half the rear door missing, Discovered a leak onto the parcel shelf...

Given your description I would say I too have the same irritating noise, I would describe mine as sounding like a snapped half shaft in the axle but only does it at crawling speed and worse in reverse.... I'm pretty sure my engine mounts are fubar though so at the min I'm working on the...

It does yes, 100kg on the eye recommended 1400kg and max 2700kg