The engineers have refitted Olympian W437CWX's fuel pump, injection pipes, fuel filters and other parts that were missing...plus brand new batteries.......and initially had no joy in getting her to run & tickover.
As I had a spare fuel fuel pump that was tried and we ended up with the same result. Suspecting an electrical issue a second engine ECU was tried and that appears to have resolved the issue. The engine is now running and sounds really good. On the negative side of things she has two fuel leaks, and an exhaust leak.
And the bad news dosen't stop there......
As she was being moved into the workshop to be lifted up for a chassis inspection there was a massive bang under the front. Turns out the road spring (like a leaf spring) has snapped.
In addition to the snapped spring, she's leaking fuel from a pipe that runs from the main fuel tank to the secondary fuel tank. Both front brakes are "metal to metal" and thus need replacing; same for the rear brakes. One of the rear brake chambers is shot and one of the rear levelling valves has also snapped.
The chassis itself requires welding in a number of places and then whole thing needs to be cleaned and undersealed.
And thats just the chassis and mechanics! Once all that is sorted I'll move on to the body; all of the windows will need to come out - on both decks! So as you can see, it'll be some time before she gets back on the road.
Turning to the 2016 rally season.....
Given my finacial commitments with regard to the Olympian, my own bus rally in June (**shameless plug** www.basildonbusrally.com), increased storage costs and life in general, I have decided to severely cull my rally attendances for this season only. Each rally attendance requires a fair amount of diesel as buses generally do very little mileage to the gallon and I can't manage the longer distance events as things currently stand.
So for the rest of the season I will only do the Essex events (Clacton, Basildon and Canvey).
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