Good day - bloody bad day

[JC]

Well what a roller coaster day in the life of MkII ownership

After 4 days of hammering up and down to hospital twice a day ( didnt miss a beat and returned 28.9 MPG despite some spirited driving ) the old girl got a quick check over 

And its dropping oil like a good un  and the battery light is shining brighter than the lights at Blackpool, but only intermittently  . - The bad day.

So after the daughter was safely returned home from her stay with the Not very good Health Service  -I set about tinkering 

stripped the rocker cover off and gave it all a good clean and new seal . so heres hoping it was that thats leaking and its not from lower down - namely the head gasket.



and it does seem the rear corner wasnt fitted very well at the recent engne rebuild prior to me buying the car 

next was a good clean down of all the contacts on the alternator and battery etc and so far so good - the lights stayed off 

So with everything going good - i decided to check on the front  brakes as they has had some abuse and the bad started

Firstly I pi$$ed the neighbours off - didnt notice the time  :embarassed:




then i notice my outer nearside CV Boot has spilt  - Back to bad again

Old cars - Love 'em or Hate 'em - They make ya Friday evenings fly by 

Next

[perryqhill]

My day with the mk2 went like this:

Fitted petrol filter to flexi metal pipe (ordered from powersteeringstore.co.uk a few weeks ago) - plain sailing.

Fitted new exhaust clamp and paste to try and get rid of the blow inbetween the downpipe and middle section - took a bit of paste, but job done.

Reversed off the ramps - took the driverside off on my big bumper 

[JC]

ah - the old front spliter removal .. mine does this everytime i reverse on or off the driveway 

[perryqhill]

ah - the old front spliter removal .. mine does this everytime i reverse on or off the driveway 

I've done it loads of times before and it's caught but been ok - one of the clips on the bumper (driverside) was already goosed though, now the whole driverside of the bumper is held on with a bit of washing line 

[Benrevs]

Sounds fun... Mine was goood, took a trip to LongLife and got a full system fitted..... Bad bit was the price, the vectra courtesy car and my head unit frying on the way back... but hey who needs a stereo when golfs sound sooooo good!

[Khare]

my head unit frying on the way back... but hey who needs a stereo when golfs sound sooooo good!

Im with you there. Mine fried too, but with a sweet engine tone, who needs bass?

[Jay]

I've got the original Panasonic 493 sitting on my tumble drier that works perfectly no wires chopped still in mint condition  Swapped that out for a Sony H/U although I might keep the 493 so I can sell the car in 'Factory spec + rust' status 

[JC]

well took it out for a test run today - leaks still there BUT and its abloody big but

CHECK THE SIMPLE THINGS FIRST . 

The oil was leaking from the filler cap -     

 then tracking along the top of the rocker cover then down and back  only noticeable now I had CLEANED the rocker cover as its always been dirty. 

[Jay]

Doh! Well at least you found the cause now 

[Jay]

I'm thinking I might have this same problem... I've got oil around the oil filler cap and coming down the side/back... Going to investigate tomorrow.