98’ Mitsubishi Spacewagon

[N Dentressangle]

Are any of these manuals any use:

 

http://mmc-manuals.ru/Old_Mitsubishi_Cars#Mitsubishi_Space_Runner_.2F_Space_Wagon

[vaughant]

Often just the engine code helps to get the info.

 

Autodata is a great shout though, dragged me out of a ton of holes when I had my garage. Never thought of eBay to get a hooky copy, great shout.

[vaughant]

Plus I may well have a load of filters etc for this, I picked up a job lot of parts and they all seem to be for Mitsubishi's of that era and earlier. I'm on holiday now but I'll try and look ASAP. Yours for post if anything fits.

[Wingz123]

Plus I may well have a load of filters etc for this, I picked up a job lot of parts and they all seem to be for Mitsubishi's of that era and earlier. I'm on holiday now but I'll try and look ASAP. Yours for post if anything fits.

Thank you - yes let me know once your back

[Wingz123]

Gearbox Fluid Drained....

 

Gearbox oil was drained out in under 10 mins - it turns out there is a dipstick on the gearbox hidden right out of sight that I missed up until now. Checked the level and massively overfilled....it was halfway up the ‘adjust at hot’ section of the dipstick and am guessing like reading your engine oil on your dipstick it wants to be halfway up the ‘hot’ section of the dipstick when hot...? Can anyone confirm just so I know I am doing it right...?? Sounds like a dumb question I know but just want to make sure I am not missing something blatantly obvious!

 

Cracked the drain plug off....out it came all over my hand and I only went and dropped the socket attached to the drain plug in the bowl didn’t I....!!!!

 

Upon looking at the fluid on my hand I sighed and thought I didn’t need to do this and have just cost myself x amount in new fluid as on my hand it still looked quite red...but how looks can be deceiving....

 

Anyway, she is empty right now and first thing in the morning I am down to Euros to pickup some more atf fluid (traffic too heavy to go now and what should be a 10 min journey will take me over an hour)

 

I will just refill through the dipstick anyhow....

 

Oh and at nearly 120k miles is it safe to say we can all pretty much agree that this has never been done before?...

[Wingz123]

Ahh rats my couple of my pictures are upside down!

 

Job done - managed to find some atf I already had (had some bottles of genuine Merc ATF in the garage) so that was made done....cut a piece of garden hose off and poured the fluid down that and into the dipstick tube.... Sorted!

 

Took for a drive and 100 times better! No slight revving up between gears, smoother gear changes and much more responsive kickdown

 

Very pleased Another job done

[Wingz123]

So after having waited over two weeks for a replacement shock absorber for the front passenger side to arrive from Germany (yes it appears that most parts for these now seem to be holed up in a suppliers warehouse in Germany!) bizarre how when I ordered replacement pads and discs they came two days after ordering and when ordering this strutt as I say, took over two weeks.......yes same supplier!

 

Oh well, cracked on and jacked the car up ready to get right to it. Axle stand under the passenger side chassis rail, unbolt the wheel, crack all the required bolts loose - three under the bonnet in the triangular shape that hold the top mount in place, the 19mm nut that bolts the top mount to the top of the strut (started this off a little in situ before removing the strut as I don’t have a vice) and then the two bolts that attach the strut to the hub......annnnnyway I am drearing on....

 

Got the spring compressors going, had to compress the spring and do the spring compressors all the way up to the max!... only way I could bolt the top mount back up to it all before fitting the strut back in place

 

Anyway, I am well impressed with myself! Took a while but we got there in the end. The old strut has quite literally spewed its oil everywhere and offered no resistance when depressed.

 

Nice new strut in place.... still got a few slight knocks so lets trrryyyyyyyyyy.....errrrrrmmmm..... drop links next....

 

Jobs still to do - cambelt and waterpump and to find a replacement piece of glass for the rear passenger window as it shattered on the last guy - got a piece of perspex in there at the moment - oh and work out why the aircon doesnt work....no belt on at the moment - was it removed or did it just fling off? Is there are more sinister underlying reason....!?

 

I am genuinely loving this car. As old and as shite as it is....I love it. Bit juicy but meh whatever....

[Wingz123]

Just a few pics....

[mitsisigma01]

Lucky the mud and grass is as hard as concrete at the moment

[Wingz123]

Lucky the mud and grass is as hard as concrete at the moment

Definitely although just outside the house where I was doing it is almost like sand! So everything including me was as if I had been rolling around on the beach!

[purplebargeken]

These are bloody ace things. I loved mine, it had the one slidey door. It moved quite well for a mildly lardy auto.

 

Had to get rid as the insurance company decided upon renewal that it was no longer eligible for classic car cover.

 

Miss it hugely. I did think for a minute that it was this one.

[vulgalour]

Before connecting the air con compressor up with a new belt, etc. see if you can get it running without.  It could be a seized compressor or like you suppose, it could just have thrown/destroyed the belt.  Nice to see one of these getting attention, the handful of occasions I've come across people trying to sort one of these out recently they've had issues getting parts, much like yourself.  It's a 90s Japanese car so really, what could possibly go wrong?  Almost every 90s Japanese car is just right, they seem to really hit a sweet spot and feel very balanced, and the Space Wagon has the added bonus of being very practical for modern use demands.

[purplebargeken]

Think mine was the Space Runner rather than the Spacewagon.

[Wingz123]

Thanks chaps - I have already pushed the boundries when it comes to what I have been able to do mechanically....never before had I changed a strut and am still buzzing off that! Ha!

 

I do love the old thing - as you say, they (90’s Jap motors) just seem to drive ‘right’. When I tried to explain why I like them so much I justify by saying that you could have a P reg primera or an M reg Carina - one with 100k on and the other with 200k and normally they will still run just as tight!

 

Really need to get that cambelt and balancer belt done. Anyone happen to know what the engine code is?....I think (think) it is 4g63....

 

This were sold in many countries under different geysers - mostly Mitsubishi Space Wagons/ Space Runners/ Chariots and there is also the Mitsubishi RVR (a 3dr 4wd version)

 

Cheers for following...

 

 

James

[vulgalour]

Not forgetting the slightly smaller but similarly styled Space Star.

[Wingz123]

Not forgetting the slightly smaller but similarly styled Space Star.

True - all these old Mitsubishi’s seem to be sub £300 territory!

[mitsisigma01]

I nearly bought the rvr about 10 years ago for £300 but the thought of the fuel bill worried me so I stuck with my c53 colt 1.5 auto , real giffer material that one . Generally I've found Mitsi's to be very reliable. Hope yours turns out the same

[Wingz123]

Cheers - fuel tank not all that big on these - they only take £50 to fill up where you’d think a car of this size would take £80-£90 to fill...

 

Tank lasted 2 weeks just pottering about locally....