Engine

Castrol Edge 10W60 is a good bet for standard engines. Guy Croft recommended this too. Any other suggestions for higher performance engines ? - NB credit to Paul Courtney

Hello everyone

There's a June 2005 article in the Consortium magazine titled "Timing belt change - low tech approach".

Can anyone send me a picture of it? Preferably in focus 😂

Thanking you in anticipation

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I recently decided to investigate a slight rumble noise from around the water pump and alternator. Off came the alternator and this was stripped and inspected. As I suspected, the bearings were a little rough so new ones were fitted along with a new brush box.

Next was the water pump. To my amazement the pully had so much play that I couldn't understand why there was no water leak from it.

I set about removing it and the first bolt came undone reasonably well but I was very cautious as it felt tight. As I tried the next three bolts, I knew that if I had given much more torque on the bolts, they would have snapped and that would have meant an engine out job to drill out snapped bolts. So there was no option but to strip off as much of the ancillary parts as possible so…