Hi, This is an small garage I use, Nigel is very good, http://npsengineering.co.uk/

Ok, I had a couple of hours this morning so the manifolds are off and I can now get at the offending hole, this is it prior to clean up (waiting for my dremel today). The plan will be to either; a) clean it up and put JB Weld over the area or b) clean it up and put a small screw in the...

Mine had this recently and it was a lose panhard rod, I checked everything else but that, now its ok.

Sorry, lift pump :-)

Yes I agree, I'm going to give it a dam good key with a dremel and clean metal with thinners to ensure there is no greese as well. I'll put some pictures up here when done. If this does not work I'll probably put a new lump in when I can. But it really is running well exept the leak so I hope...

It was pooring out all around the bottom of the pump I could not see any obvious split when I took the pump off. I guess the pump was having issues since I got the car because now I have replaced the thing it going up hills like stink, even accelerated in 5th up hills with a 1.2 transfer box...

Hi, Are you thinking I'm going to weld it, if so sorry, I'm actually going to put a layer of JB Weld over it (the epoxy glue). I did think about drilling it, but I don't know how weak it will be around the hole.

My fuel pump was dripping a bit over the last couple of months, so I left it in place for a while being lazy. However, it pretty much gave up, the car was running but I though I best change it. Look at the video do you think I made the right choice?

Ok, the car has been sealed till Friday when the Steele Seal let go and its leaking again. I'm going to bit the bullet and take the manifolds off, rub the engine down degrease it and then apply JB Weld to the hole, I'll take photo's.

Mine cost me £2.6k, the most expensive thing I have done is sound proofing, but I have spent about £2k in total on it, So 4.6k so far, I'm not getting rid of it and its nearly done, I get 30mpg+ out of Jo and do 10k miles a year in it. To me this is very cheap motoring because a new car costs...

This time of year its probably field mice or pheasants. Other than that I really can't help, sorry.

Stable matts are good.

Mike, my 200tdi is heater is pants as well and I have also changed the matrix atc, it does have water going through it, but only on long motorway trips does the temprature get up to a reasonable level.

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you must be very tall to get in it with a 4" lift.

There is no valve to cut off the water it circulates all the time, I've had mine apart and unless they have done something funky on the newer ones thats how it works. I replaced my heating matrix, and it made no difference to the old one I had in, its still crap, aparently this is a feature of...

Funny, I hate to do this, but that is a narrow band Hydrogen Alpha image. I'm a bloody astronomer and deal with light all the time. My point being is that if you keep refering to daylight being orange your off the mark a little. The car manufacturers set the light at 4.3k because our eyes...

sunlight is around 5.5k to 6.5k its aint orange.

I didn't realise I started a light bulm war! On another note if they are really horrible white/blue light, then it will be no worse than my other car.