Well, up early today as the sun was shining and the GP was on too
After a morning coffee, got wifey and son to give me a hand in the garage, 10 mins later we had the wind screen in and fitted, just need the tool ive ordered to fit the chrome insert and its job done. Must admit that after fretting about fitting the screen, it turned out to be the simplest of tasks.
Pulled the car out of the garage and gave her a good wash, cleaned the blue protection off the tyres and they look the part if I say so myself.
really pleased how the car is looking
Decided to finish the day off by getting the car on my ramps and check out the auto box sump.
Contrary to what I had read, the gearbox sump has a drain plug, decided that I would drain the oil for a look..just as I thought, it was dark and past its best, I drained 1.5 litres until it stopped flowing. Filled it back up with fresh ATF and run the car through the gear selections, had a spin down the drive and drained it again. still dark in color (no way of draining the torque converter other that flushing a few times), did this 3 times and the last time, the fluid was nice and red. Took some pics of the sump so I can order the correct sump gasket and gearbox filter. After a few weeks of use I will drop the sump for cleaning and to fit the new filter..should be good for a few more miles.
I did notice that after the last oil change, the autobox wasnt grabbing at all when drive was selected and gear selection was really smooth, hopefully this will prove to be the same on the open road.
Just need to do the diff seal and dinitrol and shes ready for MOT.
(sorry for the pics again,
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Kev
