Recent content by mark tce

hahahaha - sorry. are all cars this cramped? lol i m gettin there now though i think. engines out and all seems good so far if bloody difficult to get the nuts off. just gotta wait until monday now for a new clutch and pressure plate before i can continue. mines just about worn through by the...

thanks ... a good persuading with a lever helped and i narrowly avoided the oil!! how much oil will i need to refill the gear box? i ve taken the engine out the top and took the gear box with it - makes it easier to reconnect the two apparently.

hi guys, i m almost ready to lift the endine out, cant come out the bottom as the brace bar is rusted solid...only trouble is i can't figure out how to remove the drive shafts from the gear box. how do they come out?

thanks guys, i think i ll take it out the top if i can, i ll let my boss look it over n see what he thinks first, but it sounds a lot simpler, the less i have to do the less that can go wrong eh? thanks for the advice Nex on what to look out for. if i lower it in slowly i ll be able to move it...

so disconnect everything from the engine then pull it out of the top? so i can leave my wheels and drive shafts in place that way? then take the gear box n stuff off of it and connect them to the new engine... then put the new one in and re connect every thing.... and hey presto after a...

cheers guys

thanks guy. i m going to be doing it at work, its a garden centre but one of the polytunnels is treated like a garage. my boss is in to mr2s in a big way and regularly does conversions etc so has offered to show me what he knows and give me a lift when needed but mr2s are not the same as micras...

hi guys sorry to register and post a question straight away but i need some help. gonna be replacing the engine in my 1.0 k11 (hopefully tommorrow if it arrives). my cam chains snapped and the old one is deader than a re-killed vampire. so basically im an idiot when it comes to cars. no idea...

hi, new here but have had my old beaten up purple micra k11 for about two years now, looking for tips on economy and just how to get the best out of her really. got a few big jobs to do so i m hoping you guys will be kind en0ugh to help me out with bits of advice as i m a complete and utter...