A Day in Norfolk

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    Wot a Lovely Day Ive Had in Norfolk Swanton Morley :wow:
    Saw Some Wicked Architectural Buildings & Seanery to Die For in my book a Long Day tho due to a Smash on the A14

    As many of you are Aware Ime Nuts when it comes to eBay :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
    3/4 weeks Ago I Bought a New Engine for my old Truck making it Well Suposed to be Making it More Relibull up graded my old tired 1.6d to a more modern 1.9 diesel but sadley the Timeing Belt Slipped Causing Loads of Damage £700 Down the Drain :mad:

    FC Off Here Knows His Stuff About Engines Belive Me :dbgrtmb: Your the Don ;) and reading his knoliage IN A Difrent thread am very grateful he shaird it with me and found hes read most interesting Thank you FC

    I Was Tempted to Throw the Towel in and sell my pick up as spairs or repairs
    GUTTED!!! But Found Yet Another Engine the Suposededley Bullet Proof

    AAZ 1.9td with minemul 58000 miles on the clock these engines am like hens teeth to find and Bair in mind they fetch £500 all day in and around the vw seen

    A Yound Man put one on Fleebay for £300 but it was a 360 mile around trip so gave him a call told him my fate and miss fortune

    He had just got back From Afghan and expecting his 1st child and was moveing to another Barracks and said if i was genuine and would collect the next day i could have it for £250 so 6am this morning off i set This Young Man was a Tank Engineer Mercanic this engine you could eat your dinner off it
    complete with Turbo starter motor altanater maneyfold and down pipe i suffer a bit of insomnia Carnt Sleep cus have just got in home been up my work taking the duff engine out ready for the new Rocket to be transplanted in to the old girls engine bay this time will have a cam belt new clutch pressure plate glow plugs the works re mapping to 110 bhp :yikes: BUZZING LIKE A BUMBLE BEE

    Oh its only Money theres No Pockets in Coffins it will be my gardening pocket rocket :loll: get me down the tip quicker ile post some pics when the Sugery is complete ;)
     
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      Good luck with the new engine :dbgrtmb:

      By the way, Izzy came round at the weekend (haven't seen her since Open Day) and we gave her the wine. She sends her love :wub2:
       
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        Nice one Nick!! Hopefully this means your luck is going back on the good side of things!!
         
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          Lovely to read this post Folly Mon. Glad you are back on form.
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            Awww, bless you Nick - I'm no expert, I assure you; all I can do is pass on stuff that I have picked up as I've gone along in the hope that others won't get caught out.

            The AAZ - is that the one fitted to the B5 Passat, Vento etc from around 1998-2000? Peach of an engine if it is, and at a bargain price for you. Not unusual to see them doing over 200k quite easily, so you should get many happy miles from yours :)

            PS - I'd change the water pump at the same time as doing the belt if I were you; £30 or so well spent in my opinion - my mates Vectra suffered a collapsed bearing on the water pump which resulted in 8 knackered valves.
             
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            WILL Order a water pump for the insulation :dbgrtmb:

            OHs Water Pump packed up yesterday on her little Ageo plus new discs 2 tyers total £550 :yikes: but All Sorted Now :dbgrtmb:
             
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              Ouch! Fixing them is getting to be an expensive business nowadays - that was the main reason that I chopped the Passat in for the Audi. It had been doing a kangaroo diesel thing on and off for ages, and getting slowly worse, until it was so bad a couple of weeks ago I completely lost the rag with it.

              I went and got a fuel filter, however when putting it in I found crud all down the front of the block and the alternator - turns out that the inlet manifold was leaking, and the price of the part alone was £480-ish! That, coupled with it needing a cambelt & water pump before April, and a major service, front discs and pads, and a front anti roll bar, and the bill was now looking nearer £1500, which I don't have and really didn't want to spend on a car that I was only intending on keeping another 6-12 months anyway.

              Makes the £8 a week that I have added to my outgoings look like a complete no brainer to be honest.
               
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                Glad you got your new car :wub2:its a Bute ta Boot as Well ;)
                Gail has a Modern Car 09 reg Ageo Toyota cheap as chips to run and insure this week had a service and water pump £550 :yikes: Sadley I Love my Nails :lunapic 130165696578242 5: BUT They Do Swallow some cash in Restoration and up keep last Night I Got hold of a set of 4 Corrado G60 Steel Wheels like brand new ime going to get them banded where they acutely stretch the wheel giving it a deep dish then stretch low profile rubber over them ile take pics before and after i stripped the duff 1.9d down last night and just re mounting the engine mount on to the TD AAZ Then got to have a exuhst made because they are toatley different in a mk 1 caddy :yikes: ive got a trick up my sleave for the back box :loll: Ive Got my Hands on a Alloy Motor Bike Exuhst Can to Graft on the end still acting 18 FC And am 41 next wik :snork:
                 
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                  You can make anything fit Folly Mon. Your head is just full to the brim with ideas,
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                    Ah, the days of fashioning exhaust bits from old scaffolding poles and biscuit tins (please tell me that you are doing something a little more 'engineered' FM?

                    Will the bike exhaust give enough back pressure to prevent engine damage?
                     
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                      Ime Using a Stainless pice of tube From work and there Pipe benders Im Keeping the Middle box and the Box off the bike is from a Suzuki 1300 :yikes: So Should be Plenty to cope with the 1.9dt Pressure Quite a Few of my mates Run the Same Set up

                      I Was Going to Build it in to a Compleet Rat and paint it in rusty Paint BUT Gail wants me to paint it Either Duck Egg Blue or Baby Blue :dunno: yet carnt make up my mind :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                       
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