Warning for the uninitiated!
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Warning for the uninitiated!
If you have the timing belt changed etc. and they need to take off the middle timing belt cover and unbolt the engine from its mount, PLEASE make sure they attach the bolts back properly!
One of the bolts sheared off because one wasn't put back on properly and all the weight was on one bolt only!! My engine dropped and shoved my driveshaft out!! woooohooooo!! (luckily the other mounts seem to be ok!)
That'll teach me for not checking!! We shall see if we can fix it! fingers crossed nothing else got damaged!
One of the bolts sheared off because one wasn't put back on properly and all the weight was on one bolt only!! My engine dropped and shoved my driveshaft out!! woooohooooo!! (luckily the other mounts seem to be ok!)
That'll teach me for not checking!! We shall see if we can fix it! fingers crossed nothing else got damaged!
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The engine lives!! She is back where she belongs on her mounts - bloody fiddly mind (sodding haynes manual makes it look far simpler!) - Nothing seems broken - just cosmetic(will need a new top timing belt cover as it has a large hole in it where the bolt caught it when it sheared off!. The driveshaft is proving stubbon though!
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From: preston
tbh if you are using a haynes manual to do a job like that then you should of at least got sum1 with technical knowledge or a mechanic to assist you, in an ideal world you should of had it done by a professinal mechanic then if they had done it they would have to pay for the damage too lol
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The actual mount itself was professionally done and failed! Can't prove who did it though 
With regardd to the new mount both myself and my brother-in-law have some mechanical knowledge so that wasn't too much of a hassle to replace (new auxillary drivebelt as well while we were at it) (we use a a haynes manual just to identify the parts and as a backup) The real bugger was the driveshaft!! Had to get a mobile mechanic in for that one!
With regardd to the new mount both myself and my brother-in-law have some mechanical knowledge so that wasn't too much of a hassle to replace (new auxillary drivebelt as well while we were at it) (we use a a haynes manual just to identify the parts and as a backup) The real bugger was the driveshaft!! Had to get a mobile mechanic in for that one!
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