Thread: Back on the road

Hard work but rewarding.

I had the Valley Gasket Fail on mine and used stop leak until my father came over from the UK who's a retired mechanic of 50 years.

I took 3 days off work and we took the V8 down to the block and did the head gasket's as the parts were so cheap from the UK and we have the tools. Head's were fine as the engine only has 79k on it. However, 11 years old and we'd gone down that far anyway.

Hard work for me and the old man who's 67! Me, my dad and my 4 year old had a great time..

Very rewarding when it fired up and the next day we drove up to the Blue Mountains from Manly mid summer and ran like a dream and still does!

Originally Posted by Robgw

Hard work but rewarding.

I had the Valley Gasket Fail on mine and used stop leak until my father came over from the UK who's a retired mechanic of 50 years.

I took 3 days off work and we took the V8 down to the block and did the head gasket's as the parts were so cheap from the UK and we have the tools. Head's were fine as the engine only has 79k on it. However, 11 years old and we'd gone down that far anyway.

Hard work for me and the old man who's 67! Me, my dad and my 4 year old had a great time..

Very rewarding when it fired up and the next day we drove up to the Blue Mountains from Manly mid summer and ran like a dream and still does!

Yes rewarding knowing that you did it yourself, but the lingering doubt that --what's next????

Originally Posted by greg smith

Yes rewarding knowing that you did it yourself, but the lingering doubt that --what's next????

Sometimes I wonder if the mechanically less minded are more relaxed driving their cars around in blissful ignorance......

Originally Posted by Marmoset

Sometimes I wonder if the mechanically less minded are more relaxed driving their cars around in blissful ignorance......

have to agree with that.

Originally Posted by Marmoset

Sometimes I wonder if the mechanically less minded are more relaxed driving their cars around in blissful ignorance......

Why do their cars seem to thrive on neglect?????

Originally Posted by greg smith

Yes rewarding knowing that you did it yourself, but the lingering doubt that --what's next????

I do think that too Greg but hoping for plain sailing now! fingers crossed.

At the time i also had an SLS issue. But went to onto coils so take away all the worry. Also did a throttle body bypass as that's another weak spot in the cooling system. I don't have sunroofs either.

My Dad did the brakes all around too. It's a very tidy car and had an easy life. It did the school run in Sydney for 11 years had road tyres on it when I bought it.

Only age is against it being a 2001. I don't drive it hard either. We just did a trip up Northern NSW and put 1000k on the clock, car never missed a beat!

An oil change in October and Diff and Transmission Oil's due, so hopefully just routine stuff now!

""I had the Valley Gasket Fail on mine""

Correction, it had a oil leak on the Valley Gasket with the last owner. It was replaced by a main dealer last November, I bought the car last December and when Dad tool the Manifold off the 3 bolts on the left hand side of the Valley Gasket had not been tightened up!!! Mechanic clearly went for lunch half way through the job and forgot!