Ian i tried running her without any belts on for a short period but the noise persisted so I don't think it was the pumps. If I was you I would buy a cheap compression testing kit (about £15) which would provide vital insight into the issue. Think I'll be sending her to the scrap heap as I just...
OK, so managed to run it with the cam cover off (also had the inspection plate off the side, out of which poured quite a bit of oil on to the drive belts :/ Thankfully not too much though! The chains looks fine and as you say the small amount of chain noise that there is does disappear a few...
Hi,
The mrs came home form work the other day with her micra ('96 1.0 16v, just under 100k miles) sounding like a transit van. The oil was low so I gave it a full service (sparks, oil + filter, fuel filter, air filter - it was about due for it) - I gave it a 5 minute run round the block and to...