yesterday we were mostly........
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We went for a nice drive in the countryside and 4 mins from our destination (in the middle of no where!) I notied the fan was on, looked down and saw 107degs!! Immediately pulled over jumped out and went round the back of the car to see a river of coolant running down the hill from our undertray! 
Long story short..............
Called AA, they came out 1hr30 later (just enuf time for us to have a nice mixed grill for lunch
) The problem was a hole in one of the coolant pipes caused by a rough bit on the fuel filter housing rubbing over the last 10000 miles since we fitted a PRRT. Shoddy workmanship!!
Pipe repaired to get us home, and i`m off all this week so I`ll be replacing the pipe.
Nice man from the AA even did a sniffer test for HGF and its ok thank
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Could have been a lot worse!
Long story short..............
Called AA, they came out 1hr30 later (just enuf time for us to have a nice mixed grill for lunch
) The problem was a hole in one of the coolant pipes caused by a rough bit on the fuel filter housing rubbing over the last 10000 miles since we fitted a PRRT. Shoddy workmanship!! Pipe repaired to get us home, and i`m off all this week so I`ll be replacing the pipe.
Nice man from the AA even did a sniffer test for HGF and its ok thank
.Could have been a lot worse!
Gooby said:
lotustuart said:
S Works said:
Phew!
Indeed!! I`m about to try and replace the pipe now. should be fun!!Fitted and running fine (for now) :touches wood:
Just nursing the cuts and grazed knuckles that come with working on Elises!
Know the feeling Stu - we spent saturday changing the rear toe links - that was all OK. Sunday we decided to finish sorting out the front suspension - offside ball joints and bushes (we did the n/s a few weeks ago) - got the wishbones off, ball joints out (after a lot of effort - even with a hydraulic press) and all but 1 of the remaining ball joints were too big - very weird, same part number too. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the lotus is perched on 3 wheels and a stack of bricks - I feel a bit like a pikey leaving it like that! Oh the shame! Some kids cycled past pointing as it saying it was a write-off!! Bless their cottons, it does look a bit of a wreck!
Hopefully it will all be sorted before bedford! Geometry, service & new tyres still to sort after it's been put back together.
Hopefully it will all be sorted before bedford! Geometry, service & new tyres still to sort after it's been put back together.
MiniDiva said:
Know the feeling Stu - we spent saturday changing the rear toe links - that was all OK. Sunday we decided to finish sorting out the front suspension - offside ball joints and bushes (we did the n/s a few weeks ago) - got the wishbones off, ball joints out (after a lot of effort - even with a hydraulic press) and all but 1 of the remaining ball joints were too big - very weird, same part number too. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the lotus is perched on 3 wheels and a stack of bricks - I feel a bit like a pikey leaving it like that! Oh the shame! Some kids cycled past pointing as it saying it was a write-off!! Bless their cottons, it does look a bit of a wreck!
Hopefully it will all be sorted before bedford! Geometry, service & new tyres still to sort after it's been put back together.
Nice work.Hopefully it will all be sorted before bedford! Geometry, service & new tyres still to sort after it's been put back together.
O/T.. I`ll pop over this week with menu choices and ££ for you.
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