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Castrol 15w40 for high mileage engines, and the clearances weren't done by me - like i said i'll check them when i get back to the mainland (on the Isle of Wight at the moment).

Cant do valve clearances until i'm back home and i have a gasket set, but they were done before it was laid up 2 years ago - since then i've added maybe 500/600 miles to it - could they have just 'gone out' since then??

Argh - they dont? Bugger. Bellhousing differences i guess?

Pulling the injector clips made no difference - the noise was still there. I'm looking at bearings nonetheless - looking at horsepowerfreaks - a set of 6 Clevites are only $33.06 - which is well cheap. However, the sizing of them....if its a stock bottom end - will it be likely to be standard...

What about the W58 from the Mk4 - aren't they a little beefier?

Well if i do have to replace the bearings, with the US/UK exchange rate as it is - it's really cheap for a set of clevites....even TOGA bearings are cheap. Plus, been on the phone to Ed - he's got a spare GTE block i can have thats known to be good. Potential panic over...? We'll see :p

I'll get a stethoscope on it tomorrow and see if i can hear anything from the bottom end. If so, then i'm guessing it's just a simple swap out of the bearings, right?

It's done it ever since i've owned it. It's coming from directly beneath the coil pack, cylinders 2 and 3. It's never gone wrong mechanically, the AFM died the other day, but that's about the extent of the problems. I've booked the car in for another oil change when i get back home later...

Well, again, there seems to be a split. At 2200 to 2500rpm the noise is there, but not before and not after. Ed said not to worry and it wasnt loud enough for rod knock. It sounds a lot noisier in the video, probably because the sound is 8khz Mono :/ If it is rod knock...well thats me screwed :(

Well, a some of you may know, i've been worried about the oil pressure in my supe for a while, and theres this strange, category defying ticking noise. Some say its a sign of rod knock, some say it IS rodknock, some say its normal, others say stuck injector, cams seized etc etc. Well, have a...

So *thats* why they call it Gay Blue :p

Hey - britney with hair as a dyke...i can live with that...without hair? Ew.

Sinead o'connor?

No car with popups being made anywhere i dont think. And yes, its purely because of the pedestrian factor. As for airbags....never trusted them, and i too would rather not have them. It's why i refuse to buy a car newer than about 1995 when Airbags started becoming mandatory.

Well, posting immature shit like that is going to get you at least a kick in the arse - what the fuck else did you expect? It was a lame ass post. I've already lifted the ban, if you want to rejoin. Just next time - try not to post lame crap :/

Actually, you're not banned. And i'm not wrong - you were throwing around personal insults, so i thought i'd remove you for 24 hours to cool off. Where do you get off, being all arrogant and presumptuous? It's not a harmless joke either - insulting someone is never funny.

Something like the EuroNCAP tests would show it in an unbiased light, although they only started in 1994 or something - so the Mk3 wouldn't be in it

Yeah - SmartFTP is what i use, although WSFTP is also dead simple to use. Stick with SmartFTP though if you're happy with it. And you can stop it automatically reconnecting to servers - make sure the 'restore workspace on start' is unticked in the options.

I have unleashed the power of the n00b stick.

dude, theres a 700mb encode thats been out for a while now - you know the VUK 425 rip isnt coming, right? It got screwed up.