And it's worse than a dent in the rear seat leather! 
Basically a little while ago the diff decided it was going to eat a driveshaft...at 50mph....on a dual carriageway....90 miles from home....joy
Me - "Mr Adrian Flux, do I have breakdown cover? yes? ah, excellent. I'd like to use it please"
So the car was at home and at the time I thought the driveshaft was just worn out, so sourced a replacment and an ocuker to come and replace it (-westy- drew the short straw) - Fitted the driveshaft and drove it home, all well and good
- 2 mins up the road, same banging noise when the car originally blew the CV boot on the first drive shaft...not good.
-westy- did a few tests on some local roads round here and (I'm sure he will be along to give full technical reasons why) diagnosed it as the diff was gone in the gearbox.
Fast forward a couple of weeks, sourced a gearbox which has done 40k motorway miles and then decided how I was going to go about getting the car repaired...
A few beers with the old man later and we decided that the clutch had needed doing for a while now, and the gearbox needs doing, so if your going to do one, then do the other. Also the cambelt REALLY does need doing, I'm about 20k over and the easiest way for this is an engine out job
Now the price of it all.
I already had a clutch kit for the car, the gearbox cost me £50 and a cambelt price from most places was around the £500 mark. So we decided to do it ourselves for the following reasons -
A) We'd save an absolute packet
B) We'd know it was done right
After many delays we finally started on it this Sunday just gone...
After 4 hours work the car was in a slightly...
...dismantled state?
That's all we had time for. And currently going on the basis of doing an hour each night when we both finish work. (Oh and for the record Dad is doing most/all of the work I'm watching and learning and helping where I can)
At this point the only thing holding the engine in was the engine mounts and a driveshaft.
Post to follow with todays efforts
Basically a little while ago the diff decided it was going to eat a driveshaft...at 50mph....on a dual carriageway....90 miles from home....joy
Me - "Mr Adrian Flux, do I have breakdown cover? yes? ah, excellent. I'd like to use it please"
So the car was at home and at the time I thought the driveshaft was just worn out, so sourced a replacment and an ocuker to come and replace it (-westy- drew the short straw) - Fitted the driveshaft and drove it home, all well and good
- 2 mins up the road, same banging noise when the car originally blew the CV boot on the first drive shaft...not good. -westy- did a few tests on some local roads round here and (I'm sure he will be along to give full technical reasons why) diagnosed it as the diff was gone in the gearbox.
Fast forward a couple of weeks, sourced a gearbox which has done 40k motorway miles and then decided how I was going to go about getting the car repaired...
A few beers with the old man later and we decided that the clutch had needed doing for a while now, and the gearbox needs doing, so if your going to do one, then do the other. Also the cambelt REALLY does need doing, I'm about 20k over
and the easiest way for this is an engine out jobNow the price of it all.
I already had a clutch kit for the car, the gearbox cost me £50 and a cambelt price from most places was around the £500 mark. So we decided to do it ourselves for the following reasons -
A) We'd save an absolute packet
B) We'd know it was done right
After many delays we finally started on it this Sunday just gone...
After 4 hours work the car was in a slightly...
...dismantled state?
That's all we had time for. And currently going on the basis of doing an hour each night when we both finish work. (Oh and for the record Dad is doing most/all of the work I'm watching and learning and helping where I can)
At this point the only thing holding the engine in was the engine mounts and a driveshaft.
Post to follow with todays efforts
