No, not buying another car!
Spent a good day today on the 2000.
Alot of tidying up and finishing off really. Trouble is most of the finishing off isn't really finished!
I have taken loads of stuff, spares etc out of the car and brought home.This included a brand new heated front screen which I will fit in the summer rather than before getting the car back on the road - I may do this at a Pendle and Pennine meeting in the Old STone TRough car park.
Drove the car about in the mill yard and it seems fine - all freed off etc.
Thanks to Bryce had heat shrink put on the wires for the overdrive in the gearstick - unfortunately I can't seem to get the loom far enough down the stick for the switch to stay on top of the gearknob. Don't need that for the MOT tho!
Wired up the electric fan and got a headlamp working that had decided to be awkward.
Then ran the car for a few minutes and when the temparature got up hot water was escaping past the radiator cap and being pumped into the expansion bottle before escaping from there! And the electric fan didn't cut in either.
I have an MOT booked for Monday though and it's a 17 mile trip but I really want the car back at home. Now I have to decide what to do - well right now my plan is to drive it to the MOT station and just take a couple of 5 litre bottles of water to top up the radiator if needed.
After the MOT I can sort out these problems one by one on my drive rather than have a 34 mile trip every time I want to work on the car.
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