Well yeah pretty much.
Yeah car back in one piece. Vibrating clutch is fixed, but mostly just from adjusting the clutch cable slightly differently. I think I could still adjust it back and get it to vibrate again.
But yeah car driving pretty well.
Dropped it down to Ben @ Intune. And didn't bother to buy yet another ripoff $28 one-day rego permit. Suck it ripoff government - 30 minute drive totally unregistered. Well I'm sick of buying them because of only having to register my car again because of your incompetent shopfront workers giving out the wrong advice. I'm not buying any more of those permits until I get pulled over and booked by the cops for not having one. Everytime I have bought them, I have even driven through police RBTs and never been questioned. So forget that. Any wonder why people end up doing the wrong thing and taking shortcuts.
Well, now that that's out. I gave Ben @ Intune a big list of things to fix. Can't wait to get the car back, because then I should be able to drive straight to rego and finally get some plates on it.
List of things to fix that he's doing is:
- Fix oil leaking from turbocharger.
- Check waterpump, may be leaking slightly, fix if necessary.
- Check for any other oil leaks and fix if neccessary.
- Replace leftmost engine mount (has a big crack through it)
- Free up and replace gearbox filler plug (its ceized, I warped a 3/8" drive socket trying to open it up a while ago)
- Fix small fuel leak coming out of leftmost runner.
That's it! Should be much better after getting it back.
Then some other time I will get helicoils put in all bellhousing threads. And also get a section of intake pipe replaced by nice smooth stuff. This was the only remaining hack job that the exhaust place did on my intake system. They were tops at welding exhaust things, but very very ordinary at doing alloy pipework.
The car can sit there and be out of my hair for a while.