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[egg]

A good day for chod spotting, I saw a real life roadworthy Toyota Tercel 4x4 (near me) and these two in sunny Gravesend.

 

 

[Fat_Pirate]

Replaced the shit plastic thermostat housing (and associated shit plastic tubes) on the 75 yesterday, refilled with fresh coolant, all looks good.  Come back today, V of the engine is awash with lovely (expensive) red coolant again.  I've not run the engine so I can only assume it's slowly finding it's way past the o-rings on the plastic parts.  Considering refitting them with a healthy portion of gasket sealer now, is this bad?

[AMC Rebel]

Replaced the shit plastic thermostat housing (and associated shit plastic tubes) on the 75 yesterday, refilled with fresh coolant, all looks good.  Come back today, V of the engine is awash with lovely (expensive) red coolant again.  I've not run the engine so I can only assume it's slowly finding it's way past the o-rings on the plastic parts.  Considering refitting them with a healthy portion of gasket sealer now, is this bad?

Some beards on the 75/ZT forum advocate super duper o-rings and/or some sort of super grease stuff - I hope I don't need that as I have not long done this to my spare KV6 but it'll be a while before it goes back in the car.

[Ghosty]

Some of you may recognise this Acclaim.

 

 

 

I took that photo nine years ago, age 11.

[Eddie Honda]

Looking online they don't list a sump gasket so it looks like i'll have to take it off and then stick it back on again.

 

As you have found out, there is no gasket. It's listed as a tube of splodge because modern. This is the blue oval stuff.

 

[trigger]

^ £17+vat for that tube too. Hopefully this Wynns stuff is the same.

[Eddie Honda]

It will be. OMGFORDSCENETAX innit?

[twosmoke300]

Was it a steel or alloy sump trig ?

Usually alloy sumps use an anerobic sealer that looks like jam . It doesn't block up oil ways if it squeezes out . Steel sumps use silicone based sealers due to the bigger gaps / more flexibility

[Bear]

Just another couple of weeks and life will be much, much more to my usual standard of time/projects/mental space!

 

A certain 200TE is getting some small bits of OCD treatment - it now has secure sunvisors, a grommeted antenna and working interior lights, and is getting "mysterious sticky substance" removed from the carpets because when I went to retrieve a screw I dropped, I regretted sticking my hand down there. The SLK is finally getting the ATF fluid change (oil change revealed a filter so clean after 5000 miles, many of the bombsite dealers I knew would just have put it right back in there). The SEC isn't doing much. And having returned the repaired and MoTd Audi A2 to the office expecting to be driving back in something appropriate, I appear to have found myself behind the wheel of an MG ZR. Truly, never have I driven a car with such firm seats and limp performance. Nice steering though.

 

Such is my mental space where Mercedes are concerned that when walking back to the car to take my companion home, my head was filled with the smell and familiarity of Mercedes interiors, the homely comforts of the dismantled console and no radio, the smell of warm oil burning off the manifolds and I was looking forward to it... then I remembered the small green terror from Longbridge I held the keys for, and my heart sank. Literally.

I know tattooing brands is truly a shit thing to do, but somewhere in my biomech piece, I will incorporate a three pointed star. I'm not quite sad enough to get a W124 or G-wagen committed to skin... but closer than you'd imagine...

[Bear]

Oh, and I think I'm just going to sell the MGF for parts. There's a more rational welding project incoming.

[garbaldy]

/\ I quite like the zr but just wait till you try to sell it they are like the kiss of death.

[holbeck]

BMW gone for it's MOT today.

 

Oh, and Rancho delivery ETA 17.00

[trigger]

Was it a steel or alloy sump trig ?

Usually alloy sumps use an anerobic sealer that looks like jam . It doesn't block up oil ways if it squeezes out . Steel sumps use silicone based sealers due to the bigger gaps / more flexibility

I'm not sure if I'm honest, it sounds like tin to me!

[Bear]

/\ I quite like the zr but just wait till you try to sell it they are like the kiss of death.

 

 

It's not mine, thankfully.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

My friend bought the car on the right today, it's a V6 with cambelt history and he got it for a year's RFL on a modern V6. Not jealous at all.*

[cort16]

What's the story with your Skoda LP is it being fixed?

[Lacquer Peel]

What's the story with your Skoda LP is it being fixed?

Aye hopefully this weekend, one of the injectors was stuck in the old head and dismantled itself on the way out, new* injector arrived today.

 

 

Didn't get to use your sniff tester because it didn't arrive before the garage booking, should have been more patient! I'll get it back to you when I catch the post office.

[cort16]

No hurry for it back .

That looks like hard work. It just seems to be luck with the injectors , some are total bastards and others pop out no bother. Is it a pd?

[purplebargeken]

Box of universal O rings arrived today. Just for giggles I replaced the coolant temp and blank O rings on the old housing. Job done. Sadly the universal O rings were not that universal enough for the bigger part of the housing.

 

Anyone need an O ring then just give me a shout. I have millions*.

[SiC]

The ever reliable* Civic (2007) went in for a MOT and service today. In the almost 5 years I've owned it, it had the first proper** fail.

 

Front Offside shock absorber was pissing it's fluids out. They lasted 130k so I can't complain about that. However the cost of the part I will ... £105 for a single strut FFS. Strut, droplink (old one apparently pretty much fused on the old strut) and labour came to £185. Thinking about it, I can't complain too much as I guess its not too bad.

 

** Last year the windshield cracked the day before the MOT.

[Supernaut]

 

My friend bought the car on the right today, it's a V6 with cambelt history and he got it for a year's RFL on a modern V6. Not jealous at all.*

 

Both of those are absolute honeys. I'm very, VERY jealous.

[Lacquer Peel]

No hurry for it back .

That looks like hard work. It just seems to be luck with the injectors , some are total bastards and others pop out no bother. Is it a pd?

VE TDI for the veg oils. 3/4 injectors came out with a wiggle, this one was stuck solid.

Allegedly the previous owner skimmed the head last year but I doubt it with that stuck injector.

[SiC]

 

My friend bought the car on the right today, it's a V6 with cambelt history and he got it for a year's RFL on a modern V6. Not jealous at all.*

ES9 (PSA code)/ L7X (Renault code) for the utter win.

 

As I found out with my Gooner, Cambelt is a PIA with this engine as most places don't want to touch these engine with a barge pole!

 

Top work.

[richardmorris]

oops  - slightly scuffed 650s just arrived.

[beko1987]

Itll buff out

[burraston2006]

[stuboy]

Finally got round to changing the maf housing that was split and i shited glued back together.. think it needed replacing..

[stuboy]

For couple years a spider got into sealed headlamp unit of my looxor scooter.. after wrestling with the rear panel i couldnt get access so.. drilled a holed a wiggled some wire in the hole and got most of it out..

[stuboy]

Finally got round to changing the maf housing that was split and i shited glued back together.. think it needed replacing..

and while i was outside i replaced spark plugs and missing foglight suround that dissappeared

[DodgyBastard]

Another one! by srblythe, on Flickr

 

305 number 3 coming tomorrow hopefully.