)It was cracked right next to the join, I had my suspicions so I had a look before we took it but I couldn't see anything and the man said they usually go on these joins, not on the pipe, he said that's the second time he's seen that ever (and he knew what car it was for before we told him...)
I've driven it a fair way this evening, the noise hasn't changed at all and neither has the level dropped
Then nothing can be done until Wednesday or Thursday so I shall keep driving it - you never know.(edit #3) Thinking about it, when the engine revs increase the noise deminishes, that would tally with air in the system compressing as the pressure increases. ßugger it, it's going for a nice long drive tomorrow
) P/S still doing Wookie impressions, me and the mechanic spent 3 hours playing with the the hydraulics Saturday and only made things slightly worse. There is no air in there, it's just not possible. Then Monday I went to see another mechanic, he swears blind it's not the pump and suggests changing the hydraulic pipe for a real one (ouch!) as the only other time he had this was on a Pussat with a home-grown (or is that groan?) hydraulic pipe which cleared when they put the real thing on it. His guys also spotted the feed pipe from the reservoir is presurising (do what???) and is trying to straighten itself out, so I'm driving it waiting for this pipe to explode. I guess there's a valve on it somewhere but I'll be jiggered if I can see it.
