Ok so having now had the car finished and put back together I felt i should take it up to show my sponsors www.summitmg.co.uk what has been done to the car. So I got up early this morning and washed and polished the car to a beautiful shine. Also managed to wash the midget before Kate left in it for work. Told you it was early!
Anyway so I figured let the traffic die down and have a fun drive upto maidenhead after the rush, so with that in mind I left around ten and headed up the M3 not at too silly a speed just going with the flow!! I got to Basingstoke and realised that I didnt have enough fuel to get me to the services so decided to get some in B'stoke. Pulled off the motorway and stopped at the roundabout and there was the most alarming noise coming from the engine bay and the car was only running on three cylinders. Oh I was soo happy! Pulled up in a side road and with some hesitation took the bonnet off. What damage awaited me? Well to start with it looked like nothing too major, all the bits that attach to the engine were fine ..... uhoh this means its internal oh God what have I done.
I then removed the rocker cover to check the valves were all in place(Jim this is the shiny bit on top of the engine!) So they looked OK but on closer inspection the end exhaust valve rocker was broken. Bugger! This explained why the car was only running on three.
Quick call on the mobile to Kate at her office and I was heading home in her car to get a spare rocker shaft that I had in the garage. (Ok so for those of you who dont know what a rocker shaft is its the bit that opens and closes the valves of the engine to allow it to run correctly it is controlled by another bit in the engine...)
Got home, got rocker, back to car and remove broken shaft and refit new one all at the side of the road..what fun I was having! Then back home to set the clearances correctly. car now working correctly!
Never did get upto madenhead maybe tomorrow............
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