After three years... 216SLi - 25/2 - behaving itself

[Richard]

These I think

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROVER-200-HATCHBACK-MK2-91-95-FRONT-WINDSCREEN-WIPER-BLADES-X2-PAIR-SET-TRUPART-/151319362027?hash=item233b5639eb

[KruJoe]

"Trupart", that's the badger!

[dollywobbler]

Great news!

[Ghosty]

Can someone confirm if FDU2898 is the right PCV - from 'elbow' I suspect so as the one in there has a right angle in it. Rimmers have them for £reasonable but there isn't a picture. Can't seem to find one on ECP.

[saucedoctor]

I can look it up but don't know what you mean by PCV. Is it the Idle Air Control Valve?

[smellypoo]

Proper job. That really is very nice as a first car... It's a shame you had so much work to do but 'mad respect' for sticking with it.

[Ghosty]

saucedoctor: crankcase breather, I don't think that's it. It's on the inlet manifold - I've tried to ask Old Man but he can't explain things outside his own head.

 

I leave my car outside for one bloody day... people are stupid. (That's a hairdresser visiting the neighbours).

[saucedoctor]

Any good?

 

 

[Ghosty]

Apparently that's not it. 

I've no idea what Old Man is after at all now but I've been told that he can't find it for sale.

Also, apparently it's not interested in idling.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Loks super tidy though. Are we saying its running properly now with no boil-ups?

[Ghosty]

It is tidy, it's cleaning up well, about 2 rust bubbles, some giffer scrapes and fucked lacquer on the roof is all there is to it.

Aye, it doesn't overheat any more. Test run showed the cooling system to be working as intended. Only thing stopping it now is this idle control/crankcase breather whatsit.

[Ghosty]

ECU is flashing 10 - the code for inlet air temp sensor. We don't know where it is...

[dollywobbler]

Should be a green sensor somewhere on the inlet manifold I think.

[LC Torana]

Great news!

 

Have you just bought a Dacia?

[OwdChina]

PCV =Positive Crankcase Ventilation...............check that the pipe from rocker box to airfilter box is OK.........no leaks. ..............Then because HGF check that the small sensor in there is not covered in crud.

[Ghosty]

Thanks for the hints!

 

Off to chez Cleland with Old Man today to grab whatever we can from chompy_rover.

[KruJoe]

(I'm in Thailand now as you know, but) I just spoke to Old_Man_Cleland and he's expecting you. He says he'll have the kettle on, and the weather is set to improve in the next few hours, so have a productive day. If you need a hand, or a tool you didn't bring, just ask him, he'll be glad to help.

Don't forget to snaffle the dizzy containing the new ignition module. Sadly the fuel pump relay has gone, as have many other bits, but there's loads of usefulness left to be saved.

Good luck Ghostys!

[Ghosty]

En route!

[Ghosty]

Know your limits...

[bub2006]

Looks a cheap easy fix.......

[purplebargeken]

Rover......... is nice.

 

Post the old HG back to twat seller with a note saying 'thanks for selling me a car with a knackered HG you twat'.

 

Then shove rotten kippers up his exhaust pipe, fnarr fnarr.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah what Ken said, the seller is a right shyster tw@t

[overrun]

Know your limits...

 

Even after all that, it is still glued to the road. [Clarkson]What a machiiiine![/Clarkson]

 

GL with the parts harvesting.

[Ghosty]

Parts getting done, will fit some/all tomorrow.

 

We have:

 

• the headlights and a pair of indicators - both my indicators are cracked
• Vulgalour's unwanted facelift grille
• two left hand mirrors, there wasn't a right - luckily I needed a left more
• interior mirror
• HT leads
• injectors
• the wood trim for the dash as the varnish is flaking off mine
• PCV valve
• random fuses/relays
• a better 216SLi badge for the back
• spare rear Rover emblem
• other sundries.

 

Useful trip - thanks to the Clelands.

The promised distributor/ignition module was missing though, unfortunately - it was the one thing not on the engine, and it didn't seem to be inside the car either.

[Isaac Hunt]

Well done of getting the OMGHGF sorted.  What you have learned will serve you well, not that you necessarily want to be doing HG's all the time.

 

IIRC, I had the auto trans fluid pipes to the rad rust on one of these 1.5 auto's.  I repaired with some Araldite as it was only a pinhole, but enuff of a pinhole to make a right mess.  If yours are rusty, worth giving them a clean up and a good dose of paint and waxoyl. 

[dollywobbler]

Did you grab the inlet temp sensor?

 

I have a nasty feeling the ignition module may have been sent to me when I had my 416. Sadly, I left it in the car when I sold it.

[Ghosty]

Did you grab the inlet temp sensor?

 

I have a nasty feeling the ignition module may have been sent to me when I had my 416. Sadly, I left it in the car when I sold it.

 

We had a go but it's held in with Philips head screws and one of them wouldn't turn. We know where it is now, at least. Going to check ours is properly plugged in etc. 

Ah, that's a shame. 

[Ghosty]

The sensor appears to be part number AX42.

[KruJoe]

promised distributor/ignition module was missing though

  

Ah bugger, sorry Ghosty, my memory failed me.

 

I have a nasty feeling the ignition module may have been sent to me

I really don't remember extracting it and sending it to Wales (I did send heater knobs though).

I think I must have pulled the dizzy (and the module within) and thrown it in the 216 before it went to JohnK. I'll ask him, I need to pm him soon anyway on other matters.

[dollywobbler]

Someone did send me a module, but it was a while ago now! Can't remember stuff from last week...