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I'm happy to report no problems. 
- Circuit Pack 
& running Lauren 
'Sprinter'(!). On Tuesday I noticed the auxillary drive belt was squealing when I had the aircon on, so I tightened the belt up. I got the car home after work and it turned out that of the three bolts holding on the power steering bracket to the block that two were missing entirely whilst the third was completely undone and only still there because the back of the bracket was preventing it falling out. We didn't have a bolt the right length from the parts bin, so I had to get the junior hacksaw out and remove 10mm from a longer bolt. I had to remove the exhaust manifold and dizzy again. Then I retimed the engine with our new toy, a timing gun! - Circuit Pack (well I have but don't recall them being low) since we put it back together, but don't remember there being issues. Checked it after the run down to Stafford and back and there was a lack of coolant in the expansion tank. Opened the rad cap and it took maybe 100ml to top it up to full again. I then had to add water to the expansion tank. The engine had not ever gone over normal operating temp on the gauge, though I think given the oversized oil cooler that cooling is pretty much a non issue on my engine. It could be it was slightly underfilled and is just settling, though I know it's nowhere near as fussy as the MR2 is with regard to coolant. We'll see. - Circuit Pack Lauren wrote:Checked it after the run down to Stafford
I had to get back to work straight afterwards! - Circuit Pack Lauren wrote:I was there for an hour for an interview on Thursday morning, Peter.
I will be working around Stafford though after the 2nd April.
? There'll be Ben in his MK3 Turbo, Toni in her race MK3, Steve and Lee in MK1.5's, me in the AE86 of course and Ashley in his stripped MK2. Fingers crossed our friend Si will have his 4AGZE engined Striker making it's debut. Should be a stonking day! - Circuit Pack .... 
platmatt8 wrote:Lauren has got bigger balls than most men on this site
charged wrote:Mine's probably screaming
Lauren wrote:Yep, that's it, Peter, my first contract.
You should come over to Angers for the trackday on the 7th April as there are a few MR2 luminaries such as Toni G and our leader, Ben F(!) that are going to be there.
Bring a lid and grab some passenger rides.
Hopefully the handling is sorted on the AE86 now, so it should be a lot better. 
- Circuit Pack platmatt8 wrote:Lauren has got bigger balls than most men on this site
charged wrote:Mine's probably screaming
Obviously as I got my engine from an MR2 it won't have one of these bearings. I've already done over 1000kms and if nobody told me, I would be none the wiser(!). - Circuit Pack 
(as they say) (left my carmera down the workshop). Wasn't all that bad really. Also a fair bit lighter than a FWD box and much easier to handle. (6001 2RS) which is the weediest bearing you've ever seen and knocking that into the nose of the crank. better safe than sorry and all that. Took around 3 hours in all.- Circuit Pack It obviously doesn't massively matter too much if you are fitting an MR2 type box with no spigot bearing, but alignment is absolutely critical with a spigot bearing. I then decided to drop it again on my own, which resulted in the box landing on top of me, but I couldn't get it off me, so was stuck for 5 minutes till one of Mark's employees found me and gave me a hand. That 6.45pm by then so we put in a couple of the main bolts and called it a night. Should have just a couple of hours now in the morning to finish bolting everything back together. One observation from spending a couple of days under the car, is how mint the underneath is. - Circuit Pack 
- Circuit Pack elbon50 wrote:An ideal alignment tool is a primary shaft from a scrap gearbox
£350 used. There aren't many lying around, but yes, great idea if I did happen on one. - Circuit Pack 