The entry is in and has been accepted for the Centenary Stages Rally at RAF Barkston Heath in Lincolnshire. The Metro has only been out on the road a few times since the Roskirk Stages but the work needed to get it good to go is pretty straight forward!
The two main jobs are the fitting of new drive shaft oil seals and getting and fitting some new tyres so hopefully I'll have some grip this time out! Hopefully I'll be able to get both these jobs done this weekend leaving only minor jobs to be carried out during the week. These jobs include fitting ANOTHER Extinguisher release cable as it has once again rusted and won't work, changing the handbrake to a fly off handbrake and replacing the key ignition with a push button system! None of these are essential however and they may well be left until after this event.
Exactly who will be sitting at the side of me in the scary seat is still up in the air. If Matt gets his license in time and manages to get a race suit he'll be doing the co-driving for me, if not, Clive will once again be doing the map reading! From my point of view, either is as good as the other as they'll both hopefully be able to get us off stage if something minor goes wrong, where as my mechanical knowledge goes a bit awry after 'spray it with WD40'...
***UPDATE***
The car was down at HT Auto's yesterday to have an oil leak fixed. We'd initially thought the leak was coming from the drive shaft oil seal but once we got it on the ramps and got the sump guard off it looked like the problem was somewhere near the oil filter. We drained the oil, changed the filter and used some gasket seal to ensure the the leak wasn't coming from the area around the fitment. We refilled the car with oil and ran it without any seeming problems so fingers crossed it's problem solved...
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