Well that didn’t go as expected, ended up spending the whole day on the camper, whilst Alex cracked on with the wiring of his leisure battery system and 230 hookup I entertained myself doing a 1/2 & 1/2 detail on the nose!
Inspires his lady who with instruction is doing the rest of the motor!
Got it on the lift and set sbout a service to discover:
2 x M12 rear engine mounts one bolt missing, the other sitting in with no thread! Both threads stripped
1 x M8 rear engine mount bolt missing and thread completely stripped
Collapsed internals on exhaust.
5 x loose bolts (out of 6) on drive shaft!
So basically a miricle the engine hasn’t dropped out as one ‘pin’ was all that was stopping it. And even more lucky not to have been launched by a flailling half shaft!
Helicoil kit ordered on Amazon Prime...