And now for the rest of the day!
My clutch master cylinder decided to leak internally making driving rather interesting. I had been borrowing my friends MKIV which, I have to say, was a refreshing change from the hard ride of the shed. I can drive a car without the aid of the clutch, but negociating junctions and roundabouts can be a little tricky. Anyway, after I got my exhaust fixed, I drove to my friends house to do more car work. He had picked up for me the 3rd master cylinder to try, and it was third time lucky as it was the correct one. So this got fitted and bled with no fuss or bother and fairly quickley too. So then, it was to the rear suspension.
If you saw my write up about my trip to the UK from Madrid, you would have seen that I had to raise the rear suspension so that I could load up the boot with all my tools for work. Well today, I put it back down to where it was. This was accomplished in reasonable time too, and whilst I was doing that, Jon was cleaning up my rear wheels, internally as well as externally.
Now for the glitch in the day.
I though that the car would have a little more power now the cat was out of the equation, but I was a little dissapointed. I took Jon to where I am staying for the time being, to pick up his MKIV, and on the way, hoofed it a little to show the power of a G60. But there was no power.
Then I heard a loud pop and the power reduced to near enough zero. We pulled over and had a look and found the Mas Air Flow sensor was gone!
We drove back to my place and had a look round for the sensor as I thought it may have fallen out of the intercooler when I had the car apart yesterday, but to no avail. Jon took his car back and had a look round his place. but again to no avail. So I retraced my steps to where I heard the pop, pulled over and had a look over the road and grass verge, but could not find it. So I went home. When I got there, I had another look under the bonnet and looked to where the sensor would have been aimed, and found it, still within the engine bay, on a ledge under where the clutch master cylinder hides. So I refitted it and wire locked it in place to make sure it would not 'dissapear' again. All was well after a test drive and I have to say that the car is so much nicer to drive without the exhaust causing mayhem, and a high and very predictable clutch pedal.
Now I have to investigate the lambda probe problem. DannyP has given me a few hints, so hopefully, that will be sorted shortly.