Sorry about breaking the signup page! Good to see you on :-D

Nope, best I can do is a Vernier caliper. Frankly if they're not flapping about like a proverbial in a whatnot I'd just lap them in and see if they seal a bit better. "Good rattling fit" I think is the term :-)

Yeah, if it had been overheated badly enough it would be warped but if there had actually been much fire in that cylinder it might have burnt the metal a bit. Looks like it's okay though.

I guess if it's failed to atmosphere it's because the gasket's let go, rather than been cooked. I do wonder if it's maybe worth getting the heads skimmed anyway but I'm sure the folk who've had their engines well and truly apart will give you better advice :-)

What does it look like? Good, bad, indifferent?

The sensor is - or should be! - on the oil cooler at the front. You'll need to take off the radiator grille (four screws along the top, two at the front between the slats) and the centre slam panel (four 13mm bolts) to see it, on the right hand side of the gearbox cooler. Try cleaning up the connector a bit first.

Hmm, I wonder if it's worth organising a group buy of these kits? How much was it?

I guess that plug was held in with some sort of loctite? What did you stick it back in with?

Mine is steeped in oil and the wheel arch liner is missing?

I've got the wheelarch liners off mine until I do the Y-pipe, but I still couldn't get onto the bolt at the back. However, I might have done it a different way this time.

Actually on Mace's one it was easy enough to get the last bolt out from under the steering column! I don't know why mine was so tricky.

Yes, they weren't even tight. Looks like someone has been in at it in an attempt to change the manifold gaskets, before discovering that wasn't the problem :-)

What was the 12mm comment about?

Think that's referring to the exhaust manifold-to-head bolts, which are those funny rusty spliney looking ones like the one that dropped on you when you were attacking the downpipe bolts.

Getting the exhaust manifold off the head was the easy bit. I even worked out how to do it without dropping the steering column coupling...

Aww, the toolless thread, I remember the first time I read that. There needs to be a Kindle edition, or something.

I've got a click from the back when going from forward to reverse and vice versa, which apparently is down to the rivets in the rear swingarm working loose. Apparently "they all do that sir" and short of taking the arm off, drilling out the rivets, and replacing them with high-tensile bolts there's not a lot to do about it.

That's what lots of similar enthusiasts sites have said Gordon, however.... http://www.verticalscope.com/automotive/site-list.html
(even though many of the members of those sites subsequently complained about all the adverts / cookies /vendor push etc to
the detriment of the previous tone/content..)

I'm not sure how VS managed to convince them to join up. I'm not in it for the money and rrpub is currently hosted on a server that would likely swallow all of VerticalScope's traffic quite happily, which is kind of overkill really. If rrpub starts getting enough traffic that it's costing me real money to run I'll come and ask you lot for a donation - it would be a nice problem to have :-)

I have considered running some branding for a couple of "well known" supplier sites if they'll give us a bit of a discount or some merch or something, but only if folk are generally okay with the idea.

I just posted some answers to questions, a couple of comments on other threads and a question on the other site. Just to be neighbourly, like.

Interesting reading too; Only 130 employees but after ~15 years of Acquisitions etc they own 600+ 'Enthusiasts Sites'.... !

rrpub is owned by a rabidly lefty Scottish Nationalist anti-capitalist and is most definitely Not For Sale. VerticalScope can fuck off.

The person who told me about the drinking issue also pointed me to some other complaints about him (on FaceBook etc) plus this:

Don't think we really need that link on here.

and yes, I sincerely hope he is reading this

If he joined here I'd consider him a valuable and welcome part of the community. Doubt I'd give him the admin stick, all the same.