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£400 for a bumper?? seriously? make sure they take you for dinner and nice bottle of wine first 'cos at that price you're getting well and truly shafted!!
sit in the passengers side and kick up with your left foot and you'll boot the relays:tonguewink:
they are at the bulkhead end of the uch, you can see them if you can be bothered contorting yourself into the passengers footwell but just do it by feel.
runs off the box. afik only the late 172's can run off abs due to wiring differences. have a look into the back of the box just above the diff where the sensor should be, could just be that it's missing or could of had a later box fitted.
thinking about it if you take the elbow off if it is rings/breathing heavy then you'll probably find a fair bit of oil in there and on the butterfly/body.
are you locking the pulleys when you tighten them up? are you tesnsioning the belt and running belt through a few times before you tighten everything up? cams and pulley faces free from oil?
also are the directions from looking at the pulleys? if so how far out? could be close to group n timing...
that just adds weight and will smash without the crashbar in place sending bits of flaming ally all over the place, would be like a volcano going off!!
NO CRASH BAR!!!! haven't you read without it if you hit anything bigger than a budgie your car will fold in half and you'll die in a ball of fire:dizzy:
pretty much what he said up there...
if it doesn't smoke then rings, you should find some oil or at least a good amount of misting in the bottle. if it does smoke then guides/seals. ideally though you want to do leakdown test but that should point you in the right direction.