I just got a Landie

In message <[email protected]>, Richard Brookman
<[email protected]> writes
>So hugh was, like
>
>> My first motor was 1959 105E Ford Anglia 2937 HP.
>
>Bloody hell! Was that the chipped one with the twin turbos?
>
I did once see one racing at Mallory Park with a Buick engine in it.
Went like a rocket. Left all the Mini Coopers for dead ----- for about
half a dozen laps. I think it was owned by a Land Rover guy, all the oil
ran out.
--
hugh
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In message <[email protected]>, Nige
<nigel.inceNO****[email protected]> writes
> The worst ever BL job I ever came across was to change an alternator on
> a Montego efi, you had to take the bloody engine halfway out. I can
> still remember most of the reg number of my first. B733 ***

Aaarggghh! You've brought back nasty, repressed memories of the car I
had in the US.

I lived in the US for a year and had an '87 Honda Accord LX. Nice little
car, awful to work on. Between all the extra's they'd stuffed into the
engine cavity, there was about >< this much room to work in there.
Changing the water pump was my first experience of a Haynes manual
*spit*. Made worse by the guy at the shop telling me it'd only take 30
mins. Which was true, replacing the pump was only 30 mins. However,
taking the aircon pump, power steering pump, timing belt, camshaft
pulley and one of the engine mounts to *get* to it took about 2 days in
total. And another day to put it back together again.

Though this did give me the courage to say "Hell, if I can do that...".

This may or may not be a good thing[1].

[1] For "good" read "expensive".

Cheers,
Aled.