Well, I stuck the car in for MOT, after fitting a set of steel wheels with good tyres.. and we got a PASS... My tester made strong comments for how clean and new looking she is under neath!
Rides nice n softly to the MOT centre, though I did get an engine vibration when it changed to 4th too early, or the revs were too low, also on the way to the MOT I had to break hard.. The ABS light checks and extinguises correctly, however under hard braking the wheels DID lock up!
After I got the car home, I decided to get her sorted .. one at a time now.. instead of three at a time!
I sucessfully managed to get the exhaust pipe off the turbo outlet, and get all the turbo bracket off... the plan is to get the head off WITH turbo and inlet on, as its impossible to get at the manifold bolts in situ, and I dont want to disturb the front end, as the Air Con works well!
Headaches along the way, very few, the Cam belt tensioner would NOT undo, but new belt is going on, so I cut it, Ill tackle the tensioner when the head comes off, as it comes off with the head...
It was a slight fiddle to get the cam carrier off, it was catching on the inlet manifold ports, but that might have been caused by the rocker fingers getting knocked off their places...
Im at such position now that I need to unhook the top mount again, remove the turbo oil Feed Pipe, undo the head bolts, and cross fingers Ive enough space to lift it all off... I beleve there is...
As for the Vibration, I had noticed on strip down that the bolt that goes through the torque mount at the top engine mount was loose! Im hoping that was causing the vibration.
As for the ABS I noticed the unit was the Later Tevis MK.3 (I think) system as fitted to series 2 Xantias from 1998....
