Bad Timing

I was once again spending too much money, any advantage I had from the USA trip was long gone and at the end of July, 1985 on the way back to work my timing belt broke on the Cortina.

I managed to obtain a long tow back and took the cylinder head off to see if the valves had crumped into the pistons, miraculously there was little damage and it looked like I had dodged a bullet. It was a case of replacing the gaskets, although it seemed that the water pump, for some reason, had died.

I was reverting back to the old me as far as money management and once again I was complaining in my diary that it was a long time off the end of the month and payday, and that was on the 9th of August!!