Frustrating couple of days.

Because I'm pressing the car into constant service and only recently bought it, I decided to do the timing belt as a precaution. Easy job, was being all clever, ordered timing belt a couple of weeks ago.

Cue me having it in bits and then realising that although listed for my car, the belt was wrong. Round tooth not square, and around 130mm too short.

Then it started raining.

So, to try and remain positive and get at least some feeling of accomplishment, I decided to whup off the rocker cover to redo that.

12 hours later the electro tank got it back to bare metal, just with pitting as expected. Went to get the 2k primer since a couple coats of that would sort it right out.

Out of hardener.

Not to be deterred, decided to rattle on with single pack and worry about the pitting later.

Only to find the rocker cover gasket I bought (also a while ago, thinking I was doing well) was defective. One of the wee metal doodahs had shifted during molding meaning a hole was blocked. Prized washer out, gasket tore a little... could prob still be used but sod it, I went in a huff.

Still, will look alright I suppose and do for now. Far from perfect, but I discovered the cover fits in my oven, so I'll take it off and redo at a future date; JB weld the pits, then powder coat.

Now that bloody heat shield is offending me