March '09.
Well, now have the major expense of a gearbox rebuild!
Had a noise that started after 15 minutes or so of driving-sounded a bit like the noise you get when you need a surpressor on your stereo! Also couldn't find the gears twice and there were spots of oil flicked up on the underside of the bonnet. Turned out that the diff bearings have had it and the oil was being flicked up when the drive shafts join-of course because of that the gearbox oil was low.
So the gearbox is being rebuilt and having a new clutch & clutch cable (the bite point was high anyway so on it's way out) + am getting the flywheel lightened. Also needs a needs a new rear wheel bearing.
After that stuff is done, I then need to sort out what's up with the Alpine head-unit or Audison amp, as first there was no sound coming from the speakers connected to the amp (but the amp seemed fine), the the head-unit wouldn't switch on!
Will be glad so have everything sorted! :lol: