stevie_b

For once, the Halfords advice sounds spot-on. If you don't want to use it for anything else then a road bike has to be the way to go. Neil-NA on here sells bikes I think: might be worth having a word.

Look for clues of leaks: coloured crusty deposits on parts of the engine bay, or patches on the ground where you park up. Does the area around the rad cap look clean? If not maybe the rad cap isn't holding pressure any more and the coolant is boiling off from there. If you're losing coolant, there's 3 possibilities: 1) there's a leak in the system where liquid coolant is coming out. -- look for tell-tale coloured leak stains. Garages can do pressure tests of the cooling system to find hard-to-spot leaks. 2) the coolant is boiling off. -- I think this would only occur from the rad cap 3) head gasket failure -- the coolant is leaking into the engine oil (or outside, but I covered that in point 1) -- look for "mayonnaise" on the dipstick or around the oil filler cap.

Abz: there's no VAT on domestic water bills, but I appreciate the point you're making.

This comes up regularly. Unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, fit an OEM one that's designed for the engine you've got. Oil filters aren't expensive: I had a feeling they were less than £10 from a Toyota dealer but I might be wrong.

I can't help with a laptop, but OU students are eligible for the dirt-cheap Student Edition of MS Office. Caveat: MS probably only sell the latest version of Office, which no doubt requires a fairly up-to-date machine to run it.

At least stand back far enough so you can fit the entire car in the shot!

If it's a TT6, that would be my perfect car. Pretty much stock, no "tasteful mods" applied as far as I can see. Great colour too.

Like Robzki said, the only two plausible reasons for the dashboard faults are: 1) they've disconnected the speed sensor from the gearbox and not re-connected it (highly likely if they've been fiddling with the exhaust) 2) they've taken the dash fascia off which feeds the speed signal to the speedo (unlikely)

Amen to that. I have genuine difficulty in keeping a bicycle upright.

What is your particular area of shizzle expertise? I prefer dovetail shizzles: http://www.finewoodworking.com/ToolGuide/ToolGuideProduct.aspx?id=29020

I'm the same. It's either that or a superbike, but I don't have a bike license.

Just speculation, but it's possible that connecting the hoses the "wrong" way round would inhibit the flow of coolant via convection. I'm not sure where the coolant pathways lead, and specifically the relation between the coolant pump (which will drive the coolant much more strongly than convection flow) and where the pathways that feed the matrix come from. Like in the thread Jos linked to, this *could* cause the matrix to only chuck out warm air rather than hot.

I didn't understand the "more views more cash for me" bit. Is it a pay-per-view / pay-per-click thing?

... and the politicians/exam boards try to tell us every year when exam results are out that standards are not slipping.

I think they should change the content of http://www.youre.co.uk/ to be that cartoon. It is; the joke illustrates how grammar can change the meaning of a sentence, and it's also a book on grammar (based on the same joke, judging by the cover). http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592400876

A fruitier version of the "eats shoots and leaves" saying.

That's the fella --> http://whifbitzperformancetuning.co.uk/toyota-supra-supra-engine-components-toyota-parts-toyota-p-1802.html (I would have edited the last post, but something's happened to my Firefox profile which means I can't edit any posts )

It wasn't that one Scott. It was definitely sold as a genuine Toyota OEM one. It also came in a Toyota box (although that doesn't prove anything). With something like the crank pulley and because my car is 95% stock (completely stock engine-wise), I wouldn't fit anything other than OEM, but that's just me.

Like Lude, I bought one from Whifbitz which was Toyota OEM but cheaper than what the dealers were selling them at.

Uncanny. You must have rigged up a webcam in my bedroom!

Next week. The teachers should have given them more homework to do.

Big up to the Staines massive!

I like that BBMF watch, a lot.

They are damped for a reason: there are massive twisting forces going through the crankshaft. If the parts and labour to rebuild your bottom end is more than £350, there's your reason. I'm not sure why you're considering the ATI one, at about double the cost of a stock one. Don't assume that because it's from a tuning house, it must be better. I can't imagine that ATI have spent more R&D money than Toyota on testing it specifically on a 2JZ engine.

What mods have you got? I would get a stock one unless you know of a good reason not to do so. Chris Wilson posted some good info recently on another thread to do with pulley dampening and the reasons for it.