Project Creatively Titled Rover 400 Thread

[davehedgehog31]

FUCK FUCK THREADED SPARK PLUG BORE SEND HELP

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When you took the plug out, were there pieces of aluminum from the head in the threads of the plug? I've only ever had similar on a motorbike engine, it wasn't severe and I managed to tidy it up with a tap set and installed the plug fine. Maybe you'll be able to do the same if it's not to serious? 

 

Installing a helicoil looks quite easy, but we attempted it on a mates car years ago and found it to be extremely nerve wracking. 

[Ghosty]

Yes, a fingernail clipping sized piece.

[Guest Hooli]

Cut a slot up the side of the thread on the old plug with a grinder, clean it up & wind in slowly by hand. It'll work as a tap & clean the thread up if it's good enough to use.

[Ghosty]

Does anyone have a grinder I can use, then?

In slightly better news since the car got to stretch its legs a bit, the 'stat seems to have freed up:

[bub2006]

May explain the misfire if it's not seating plug.

[Guest Hooli]

May explain the misfire if it's not seating plug.

 

Aye, slight lack of compression if the plug falls out...

[beko1987]

If you have a tent I can give you a lift to shitefest...

 

/backup plan

[Shep Shepherd]

I cross-threaded The Volvo's number 1 spark plug a few years ago (ironically the easiest to access), but I managed to save the day using a proprietary spark plug chaser I bought cheaply on eBay. I imagine that any decent car spares shop (and Halfords) will sell them.

 

Top tip: if you use one, put lots of grease on the chaser's threads to collect any swarf.

[Pat Earrings]

Prelude shifts fine Ghosty! Can't imagine it being poo. Your ATF change did wonders.

[Ghosty]

This has been an advisory item for several MOTs.

[Ghosty]

Not any more!

[Ghosty]

WHY

 

Anyone got any tapes they don't want?

[Guest Hooli]

What's wrong with crimps? Looks like ISO on the end which I bet it didn't have originally.

 

 

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[Ghosty]

They've lopped the ISO off, and directly crimped a proprietary connector on so I need to buy and re-wire some ISO plugs.

What's wrong with crimps? Looks like ISO on the end which I bet it didn't have originally.

 

 

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[beko1987]

I might have a normal iso extender which you could re crimp on, although that doesn't help you before shitefest...

[Ghosty]

I do have a radio I might add, it just seeems I'm stuck to AM/FM and cassettes.

 

Driver's door speaker is dead too.

[Ghosty]

Rain has stopped play.

It's also made the bumpers the right colour. I'll have to heat gun them or something.

[Shep Shepherd]

I used to treat my 1994 214Si's bumpers with Autoglym Bumper Care every few weeks, which kept them looking decent, as they were faded to buggery when I acquired the car when it was but six years old. I still use its successor, Bumper & Trim Gel, on The Volvo ^^

[Ghosty]

Major improvement number 1:

 

IMG_20180601_203108065 by max_burton, on Flickr

 

Ordered a new aerial, and cleaned a square of adhesive off the leading edge of the bonnet too.

 

IMG_20180601_213529265 by max_burton, on Flickr

 

It's going to clean up well.

[Ghosty]

IMG_20180601_130425_565 by max_burton, on Flickr

[HH-R]

Lovely stuff, really nice.

 

These were pretty much the high point in motoring in general. CLASS

[bramz7]

I'm really glad you bought it!

[SierraMikeHotel]

My grandad had one of the first of these (as a 216GSi) and while I know for a fact it was red, it always turns up in my memory as this shade of beige.

[Ghosty]

Er, it's white...

 

Are you thinking of Oyster Beige, by any chance, or are you referring to the Prism velour seats and 'slate' dash and door cards?

 

 

I'm not a nerd, I just have the brochure because it was cheap on eBay.

[Ghosty]

Service time.

Already got a shard of glass lodged in my fingertip trying to clean all the plantlife out of the engine bay, it fucking hurts.

[Ghosty]

That's quite possibly further evidence that the car has been broken into at some point in the past.

[davehedgehog31]

Someone probably wanted the Pan Pipes and Kenny G tapes out it circa '93. Savages.

[Ghosty]

oil: done

filter: shit access; on rear of engine UNDER THE INLET MANIFOLD, looks clean so can wait for a while until proper tools are acquired

spark plugs: done

ATF: done, will do again

wiper blades: done

 

The boot didn't always close, sometimes it bounced. Turns out the trim around the base of the rear windscreen was loose.

T-Cutted some scratches out, realised the car needs machine polishing

The front bumper is just off its mounting lugs at the sides, this is easy to fix. I want to take it off anyway as it gives better access to mount the horn compressor.

[Guest Hooli]

They've lopped the ISO off, and directly crimped a proprietary connector on so I need to buy and re-wire some ISO plugs.

 

Bah!

 

Nowt that 20mins with crimps & a new ISO won't fix though. It's the ideal* job for siting in the car on a rainy day.

[RobT]

What type of ATF did you use Ghosty? Run of the mill Dexron III?