DOUBLE TROUBLE

When you buy a kit or a set of anything, make sure you unpack it all before starting any job and see exactly what you’ve got. I got caught the other day after buying a top-end gasket kit for the Escort. We figured we’d fit a new front camshaft seal, so I headed off and paid yet more money for the seal in question. And about an hour later when we broke into the gasket kit to start assembling the rest of the engine, guess what we found? Yep, the VRS kit included the very same cam seal I’d just bought for the second time.