19-06-14, 10:07 PM
Not sure what was so wrong about my post and as Dead Eye says, you learn by doing. A 106 diesel head gasket is £13.99 with free delivery from eBay, about the only specialist tool you might need is a torque wrench and you don't need a garage. You've been to my place and seen the garage. Do you seriously think I can get my Range Rover in there to rebuild the top end of the V8 engine? No, because if I get the Range Rover in there I can't get out of it as the garage isn't wide enough so I work on the driveway, no different to you doing it outside. At this time of year you've got about 15 hours of daylight each day (and the temperature isn't below freezing either), so you get up early on a Saturday morning and work on it until it gets dark. If you haven't finished it by then, you get up early on Sunday morning and carry on. The book time is about 5 hours so if you can't get it done in 30 you shouldn't really be attempting anything involving a socket set.
No I haven't ridden with you but your record speaks for itself. I don't know if your coming together with a Merc was in any way your fault or not but you admitted you dropped the ZX on a sliproad purely because you were travelling too fast for the conditions of both the road and the bike.
You claim it's a rant but you are beginning to sound like a spoilt brat would is having a paddy because he isn't getting his own way. Life's like that, you aren't going to get your own way all the time, shit happens. Live with it and learn from it. You never know, get the car sorted and what you learn from doing it yourself may even mean that there will be less on the project bike that you need to farm out to others.
No I haven't ridden with you but your record speaks for itself. I don't know if your coming together with a Merc was in any way your fault or not but you admitted you dropped the ZX on a sliproad purely because you were travelling too fast for the conditions of both the road and the bike.
You claim it's a rant but you are beginning to sound like a spoilt brat would is having a paddy because he isn't getting his own way. Life's like that, you aren't going to get your own way all the time, shit happens. Live with it and learn from it. You never know, get the car sorted and what you learn from doing it yourself may even mean that there will be less on the project bike that you need to farm out to others.