Project AI Diagnostic - hail our new overlords... Moogs Motahs

[the judge]

That CANNOT be the dizzy drive?

[The Moog]

That CANNOT be the dizzy drive?

It was

 

 

Sadly/happily that is what is known as a joke played by my mechanicng partner who thought it would be very funny! ..

 

Up date in coming

[The Moog]

So up to here

 

Bits all put back on

I let Neil fit the dizzy drive

 

After which he made his hilarious joke by showing me the old one...

 

 

More bits on

 

Liquid

 

 

And

 

 

.....

 

https://youtu.be/3emeX0d4SUs

 

 

You beauty!

 

 

A water leak from the thermostat housing was sorted as gasket was slightly off

 

Then the timing belt was retensioned about 10 times. It is designed so you tension it anti clockwise and then tighten the securing bolt clockwise - thus backing off some of the tension. Stupid flipping idea. Neil did many swears.

 

Let it run for a bit after that

 

Celebration turned a bit sour when the rad started pissing out water.

 

Quick Google check shows rad are about £170 which is a touch tough at the moment.

 

Plan B is being hatched (after Neil doing many more swears everytime someone mentioned radweld)

 

Rover looking complete

 

Whilst we had in the air we poked at the blowing exhaust

 

It has got a couple of holes - which should weld. Which is lucky as this will need sparkly stick

 

I think it is time we learnt to weld.

 

Almost the last bit of fun was the pressure plate was rusted on clutch. Wazzed it on the lift stuck it in fourth and revved it up with a clunk it detached itself.

 

Finally the rover got a wash before being driven back to chez puss by Neil

[The Moog]

So what is next .

 

Fix water leak

Repair the sills at the rear

Fix exhaust leak

MOT car.

 

Then it will be up for sale as it isn't a car I want but had to save it (at Neil's insistence.)

 

If anyone wants a Rover 820 so project then drop me a PM before the work is done.

 

Only done 40 ishk with giffer history, new cylinder head, headgasket, cambelt etc

 

All electrics work including sun roof.

[hairnet]

auto radiators rishton for recore rad

[Broadsword]

Great work getting it running!

[dome]

Great stuff. There's a corolla TSport rad here you can have if it'll fit?

[The Moog]

Great stuff. There's a corolla TSport rad here you can have if it'll fit?

Let me have a crack at plan B first. It may involve JB aqua weld.

 

I sadly have a spreadsheet for this free car.

 

Current running total (including all wrong bits (stop sniggering at the back) is a shade over £600.

 

Bugger. This is why I don't keep track... Then it is all free*.

 

I may have also just put a stupid cheeky (£15 delivered) offer on an exhaust downpipe - the one bit of exhaust it doesn't leak from.

 

 

 

Mx5 softtop fitting confirmed for next Friday. Looking forward to it.

[The Moog]

Picked my box of goodies up today

 

Shiny new headlights for the little pug.

 

Old ones off

 

You can see the broken lug on the old one

 

Extra help always welcome

 

Looks a bit naked - tools at the ready to fit the relay Kit a bit better

 

 

One of the issues was that main beam wasn't working. I think it was because it had only two 4 pin relays. New relay acquired

All fitted

 

Still got issues with the lights - I need to check the relay kit as I am not 100% I have fitted it correctly.

 

Then onto the horns - Mondeo dual horns

 

At this point I was dodging showers and freezing wind.

 

Horns were an issue. Couldn't get them to work - had 12v at leads and also checked the horns straight from the battery. I think I am going to need a relay to run it.

 

Last thing to check before handing the keys over to Bucketeer was a sticky throttle . The throttle arm is incredibly sticky so took off the arm

 

Bit rusty

 

Cleaned and lubed and 100x better.

 

Quick check of headlights and tyre pressure before the off.

 

Also ran some dishwasher tablets in the rover to clean the cooling system out a bit.

 

The leak seems to come and go - hopefully it might bugger off one day

[The Moog]

Forgot to say that unplugging the dim dip resistor in the pug meant all the warning lights were working again!

 

The wiring is really dodgy in there.

[hairnet]

At this point I was dodging showers and freezing wind.

 

 

Couldn't fix bike cos of that

[Matty]

Couldn't fix car cos of that. If reincarnation is a thing I'm never being born in East lancs ever again. Ever.

[The Moog]

Today was garage fettling day but in between I managed to fiddle a bit more on the Rover

 

I never quite realised I had so much stuff

 

Chucked a load of it on eBay to see if I can get some more car money .

 

Anyway rover flush was go.

 

Couple of dishwasher tabs and then let it idle for a bit. Pull bottom hose off and eurgh

 

Then did some more plain water flushes

 

After about three the water looks pretty clean. The leak has stopped although as my learned colleague said, it will be a bit of gunk stopping it which will come free at any time.

 

I found the Rover v5 and I am the third owner. First was Rover for a year, then my friend's dad until last year and me.

 

My cheeky exhaust bids were turned down so will look at patching the exhaust.

 

The little pug has found a temp home with Bucketeer who I think has fallen for its charms. If he wasn't collecting his AX in a month or so, I would have thought it might be a while till I saw the pug again!

[HMC]

That header tank looks mint (for an 800!) looking forward to seeing it on the road.

[The Moog]

Really struggling to update stuff.  Got a brake overhaul and soemthing else to post.

The boring golf has been throwing up a MIL which when scanned said diesel temp sensor

New one is duly ordered

 

Fitting

AHH might have found the issue.

 

Secondhand sensor with wiring ordered to try and fix it

[The Moog]

How to fit a new hood to an Mx5.

 

1) put the kettle on

2) make a coffee

 

3) take a seat

4) let the expert do it

 

[hairnet]

Skiving fek and hope you made him a drink

[NorthernMonkey]

17 minutes ago, snagglepuss said:

How to fit a new hood to an Mx5.

Poor little thing.

 

It’s like watching an episode of Supervet where Noel Fitzpatrick gives a worming tablet to a stray.

[hairnet]

them wheels need seeing to.......................................

[gm]

is he taking a blowtorch to it in one of those pics ?

 

[hairnet]

no thats the getz dont tell the missus

[The Moog]

1 hour ago, gm said:

is he taking a blowtorch to it in one of those pics ?

 

Yep. Don't know why - whether it was to loosen up the joints or get the old glue off.

Some more pics of it being finished

 

Comes with 2 year warranty - need to keep it up for a week to stretch it. 

 

On way a mysterious squeaking developed.  I think the gearbox is maybe a bit kanckered. A fair bit of pinion whine and now this squeak.

 

Also there are some electrical gremlins - the pop up headlights won't unless the manual override is pushed, the alarm light is always dim and on which it shouldn't be. 

 

One issue this morning was an odd sensation like something up with the back end - quick trip to my friendly northern monkey and we found a missing propshaft bolt. Luckily a cheap easy fix

 

 

 

[The Moog]

Today has been most enjoyable - I love tinkering with cars.

Still having issues with forum so will do words then upload all the pics.

Golfs turn today.  Firstly the secondhand sensor turned up for the diesel temp sensor.  The old one had sheared off so ordered a whole sensor off eBay. There are two wires to the sensor and I wanted to connect it for now to check I have got them right way round so waygos applied for now.

MIL is out so will see how I get on and solder/heat shrink them later if they are the right ones.

 

Next up was the door locks.  The rear passenger door didn't lock and the drivers side would lock on the remote but not unlock.
Door locks are cheap at £18 each which were delivered during the week.
Interestingly you take the door skin off rather than the interior.
The first door took over an hour with fiddling.

One of the door bolts holding on the lock rounded so I ended up getting tools on it.

Sadly I had just bought a new aldi angle grinder (it was cheaper than a 5amh battery for my Ryobi one) so that got thrust into action. Finally got it out and need to get a new one.

 

Put all the door back together then found some missing bits so had to take it apart again, then I couldn't get the weather proof cover on so had to take the window bolts off.

 

Driver's side one took 15 minutes - even with one of the bolts rounding (used chiesel and hammer this time) anyone want a hand doing a Mk5 door lock I am your man. They are a piece of piss!

 

Then took the rover for a quick spin to bleed the system - it is a lovely car. Argghh too many cars and not enough time. 

 

[Skizzer]

You take the door skin off?? Wow.  That’s almost Citroen levels of weirdness.

[The Moog]

10 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

You take the door skin off?? Wow.  That’s almost Citroen levels of weirdness.

It's odd but in lots of ways it works well.  You aren't trying to get things through small sharp openings.

Now I have got the knack it is a pretty quick thing to do.

[Broadsword]

News to me that you can remove a door skin like that. It looks kind of creepy with the door closed like that with the skin off! Very interesting!!

[gadgetgricey]

As above, that's really weird but at the same time looks to make things a lot easier.

Need to get the Rover 200 door lock fixed this weekend or next, sure there will be blood involved.

[The Moog]

No blood at all - so we'll impressed :-).

So far the golf has been a joy to work on.

On my test drive in the golf I did a 0-60 - it was uphill but fairly slow

 

[hairnet]

thats nuts

were the german borrowing the frenchmans weed that week

 

looks dead handy tho

[drewd]

It looks like the cover of a Haynes manual!

If it works it can't be too bad, and it looks better that feeding your hand through an apature in the door from the door card side, and contorting to reach something that's obscured by a reinforcment beam or window regulator.