I fixed the car! Actually I fixed it about 2 months ago but couldn't be bothered to post. The cam-carrier resealing was quite simple (if not messy) and the FTO received a cambelt change and some new auxiliary belts in the process. It's been running fine since the work was done, now all I need to do is sort out the leaky differential seals.
I also bought Windows 7. After many years of using unused, hand-me-down, bundled or MSDN freebie copies of the various OS revisions I've finally bought a proper copy of MS's latest offering. I started with a nice new hard disk and Windows 7 went on easily enough. Isolating and installing the appropriate applications was a chore but nothing was particularly difficult. The one real pain was rearranging my disk drives. Copying old data into the correct location on the new drives required passing through a temporary drive so that I could swap data over and resize some partitions in the process.
All in, it took me took about three days to get my machine working how I like it. Now I can get back to doing some programming and other useful things. |
