So, the week after getting the Mondeo wheel bearing done we went to devon ( 370 miles ) for our holiday. Appart from a little rubbing from the rear tyres she performed very well.. 900 miles covered, but 90 miles fro home the heater went cold and I watched the water temp climb…
I switched off and coasted down the hard shoulder looking for a phone box, fortunatly I spotted an AA van instead and rolled up behind him…
We dragged the car to the nearest service station an put more water in, she started up cleanly but the rivver of water from under the car was a bad sign. we found a hole in the water pump..
A week later, a lot of swearing and the replacement pump was fitted… No aparent damage was done to the engine.
I have now sourced a pair of good front fogs, a bonnet in silver and grill. I took two bonnets of at the scrappy but the first MINT one was blown over as I scavenged other parts 🙁
Hopefully tomorrow I will get to fitting it up. I also found a perfect set of heater vents ( commonly broken on MK1’s )
The sierra GT has had nothing done bar a pair of rear hatch struts ( which has not helped the head clobering hatch!! )
The golf is getting started every week to keep it fresh.
The scorpio is reluctant to have it’s exhaust fixed, I tried yesterday to drill the snapped stud but it was no go!!
The sapphire suffed two battle scars in the last week. I caught the door and scraped of some paint last week, and yesterday a spare door was blown over and dinked the wing 🙁 … I did fit a late cable release boot latch yesterday though. and last week I pulled the fault codes and there was nothing unexpected 🙂
The only major purchase has been a 2.0 16V Scorpio engine to play with ……..
The garage plans are moving forward 🙂