"Zathras" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:15:30 +0100, "R D S" > wrote:
>
>>No compression! Its only a few weeks since I last heard it.
>>
>>Whats the prize for buying the worlds worst used Alfa?
>
> There are reasons why Alfa just swap out these engines after any major
> incidents but, according to your previous posts, you thought this too
> much of a gamble! IMHO the real gamble was keeping it.
>
> IIRC, it's just had a fairly major engine overhaul. I hope you're not
> going to throw all your money into a sh!te engine in the hope of
> converting it into a cr@p engine! Having said that, was there any
> guarantee with the overhaul? The odour of dodgy back street engine
> overhauls fills the air - been there seen it done it learned the
> lesson!
>

Credit to the bloke who overhauled it recently, he is fiing it this time for
free.

I dunno, maybe I have found a decent, reasonable honest mechanic?