Possible Problems ?
Discussion
Took the car out for a spin at the weekend with a friend and let him have a drive - whilst he was busy exercising his face muscle's I was listening to the car and although it has made these noises since I brought it last month I feel I need to seek reassurances of ' they all do that sir'.
When accelerating the engine makes a ticking sound (almost like one of the HT leads shorting out) this doesn't happen if I maintain my speed it only happens if I apply any sort of pressure to the throttle also the gear box seems to whine quite loudly when decelerating is this the norm or could the oil level in the gear box be low - if so how difficult is it to check.
Any help appreciated.
Ian
P.s - it's a V8S.
When accelerating the engine makes a ticking sound (almost like one of the HT leads shorting out) this doesn't happen if I maintain my speed it only happens if I apply any sort of pressure to the throttle also the gear box seems to whine quite loudly when decelerating is this the norm or could the oil level in the gear box be low - if so how difficult is it to check.
Any help appreciated.
Ian
P.s - it's a V8S.
Took the car to peninsula yesterday and it turned out that the manifold was not torqued up to the correct amount - this has solved the problem somewhat but the ticking noise is now only noticable when the car is pulling in 4 or 5 gear so i suppose this points to a smallish hole in the manifold. Has anyone used cold weld on their manifold in the past or should i dig deep and pay for a new manifold?
JSG,
Got my car going back to peninsula on the 19th to get the manifold welded if possible otherwise i'll have to stump up around £450 for a new one. To make matters worse the insurance company have told me that my alarm is no longer thatcham approved and they won't cover me for theft
until i get a new one 
so that's another £300 out of my pocket .
errr - sorry darling christmas is cancelled.
Got my car going back to peninsula on the 19th to get the manifold welded if possible otherwise i'll have to stump up around £450 for a new one. To make matters worse the insurance company have told me that my alarm is no longer thatcham approved and they won't cover me for theft
until i get a new one so that's another £300 out of my pocket . errr - sorry darling christmas is cancelled.
Podie,
Have found out that can just get away with fitting a thatcham 2 (immobiliser) so should only cost around £150 and I plan to have this installed in conjunction with my current Alarm and Immobiliser so double protection - in theory anyway. I have a bit of a gripe with Thatcham as I always thought they were independent from insurance companies and it turns out there owned by them.
Ian
Have found out that can just get away with fitting a thatcham 2 (immobiliser) so should only cost around £150 and I plan to have this installed in conjunction with my current Alarm and Immobiliser so double protection - in theory anyway. I have a bit of a gripe with Thatcham as I always thought they were independent from insurance companies and it turns out there owned by them.
Ian
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