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"Stone Chip" is probo the best. Used on sills before painting the top coat. Even new cars have it. You will need a compressor etc though. I used it on my railing posts before they went into wet concrete 30 years ago. Still rubbery and no rust creeping up from the ground.

I thought you had rolled it.

When water gets trapped by capillary action rust will set in as in powder coating rust.

If you have a genuine OEM alternator they are VERY well made and designed and easy to work on. I stripped mine right down and reassembled it just for maintenance. You might need a camera or mark certain items, can't remember exactly. No special tools or soldering iron required.

They only sold one turbo Shayne. lol.

I don't know what your Milner cylinder is like but the steering damper/shock absorber they supplied to me was about as strong as a bicycle pump. Their online picture of said item showed an OEM one !! Also it was too short so when on full lock was likely to be torn apart or crushed. If you have...

Your brake failure is 99% caused by faulty master cylinder.

Can you present your car in low range for MOT. It does not have ABS in that mode?

Rebel rebel, You've torn your dress. Now your turning off all those anti pollution and safety devices. Glad we live in a free society.

I assume one has to disconnect any security system before installing as their contacts are common in some areas.

Hence the need for a fool proof light.:).

Light has settled down now. Goes off after 2 minutes running and stays off until engine cold. On Utube I saw a ruined, quite modern, Bentley engine which had run dry of coolant and seized. The plastic inlet pipe to the rad had broken. The broken part was still in the now disconnected top...

GOK, can you describe this magic path to delete the adverts on my latest edition of windows?

Russians.

That's a good idea, driving the car sitting on a seat with toilet facility. No need to stop now. It could all go down the exhaust pipe.

Parts prices as well!! My friends son has an old Aston Martin Vanquish. Failed MOT for a faulty rear tail light. £3,100 + VAT not fitted. Dread to think what a current model price would be.

Then when you've bought your shiny new car you are treated badly by the main dealer. VW Stourbridge are beyond words having told me a pack of lies about faults on my new Golf. And I was working on cars aged 14 long before any of the techs had been born. In the end I went to reception and asked...

I see new car sales are very down. eg VW have closed 2 factories. What the hell is going on? Are people frightened of buying ICE cars and are they put off by the complexity and cost of repairing those ICE available? I see Ford and Toyota Landcruisers in USA are in big trouble with unreliable...

Something's bust in the transfer I would think. I've taken mine out (= Broken?) and I still have drive. Be an interesting story when completed. An oil drop might reveal metal swarf.

I don't think a seized Vc would cause loss of drive. Symptoms are tyre squealing and tending to steer straight ahead on bends but not loss of gears.

"Iconic" Auctioneers have just auctioned, today, a restored 70 VX for hammer £19,000 at NEC. Buyers commission at 12.5 % on top. LOT 115 and plenty of pictures there.

Send the car to work and stay at home.

Only buy Toyota sensors. A lot of aftermarket ones don't work straight out of the box leading to frustration and more fault codes.

I made new ones. They don't have to be that shape. As long as the bearing points have the same orientation that is all that's required.

I undid my seat bolts/nuts and tilted the seats over. The wiring plug was then easy to see and unplug.

I notice the air bag ECU has capacitors. I guess other ECUs have capacitors. How long will they last?

I think it's a bit higher up than the one I fitted. Mine will drain straight in to a bucket with no mess.

Photo sideways for some reason. Tap points to earth!

Fed up with getting covered with coolant every time I drain it so fitted a drain tap in the bottom hose. I had some thick walled brass tube in stock so cut it to length and then swaged the ends, drilled a hole to take a tap I had. Quick oxy acetylene and silver solder to make a sound job. Just a...

I notice ebay has some purpose made ones. Don't know if they are OEM or not.

Unless you have done loads of cambelt replacements and have acquired sufficient confidence it is best to hold the cam' with a spanner to keep your heartrate down and keep a clear head.

My whine was throttle dependant, not road speed or gear dependant. Have a look at the egr valves. You might see a small gap between one and its ally flange. No idea why my manifold suddenly warped.

I don't think they need servicing just rebuilding when they wear out and give obvious problems.

I had a VERY strange whine, more like a whistle. Turned out to be a warped EGR aluminium manifold . The metal gasket was acting like a reed. A quick file back to flat sorted that.

Put a live + feed to the full pump? if it is like the 80.

The factory workshop manual will give the spec' on how tight the chain should be. It would not cause car to pull to one side though unless you have wheelspin.

Is it just a self adjusting valve then?

High up on firewall in the firewal/wing corner kerb side. How do I know that.

I would jack front wheels off ground engine OFF. You should be able to push/pull the wheels from lock to lock even with faulty pump. If not steering itself might be stiff.

Bad news indeed. Have you thought of a classic car auction. If two people are interested it will sell but prices are up and down at present.

Your local garage will service, or should be able to. So straight forward. Only take it to Toyota for specialist repair or diagnosis.

Solved by ECU supplied by 80 breaker. BTW no light is not a failure so one can take the bulb out. The only fail is where there is a lit warning lamp. This is on a Government website and also confirmed by my tester. Rather have it working properly though.

Ordered an ECU from Gary for my air bag light fault yesterday and it came today. Plugged it in, cleared code and dreaded light went out.

I found a site online (now lost) with all the specs over the years listed. Looks like 80s should be running on old style G11. I'm not confident that Toyota would supply the correct antifreeze.

Russian 1. " We lost more land today". Russian 2. "Oblast".

Russian 1. "We lost more land today" Russian 2. "Oblast".

It's our eyes TP. I got lost in BHAM when I was 45yo because I could not read the map at dawn.

I would check those "planet gears?" inside the diff housing. Back in the day I had your noise and it was caused by broken planet gears.