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Forrester fun

A few weeks back a good friends scooby went in for a timing belt change at subaru. A short while after they rang with concerns and did she want to proceed with the belt. 

The exhaust was shagged (known) but a caliper was binding, eml light on , and rotted out lower arm.  Quote of parts plus repairs came in around 5k plus. Mot was due in a few weeks. 

Deflated and unsure what to do she told me about it and i asked her to leave the car with me while she borrowed a car. 

Taken to the workshop, stuck brakes was just wedged pads from build up behind the shims, eml light was a pesky emmisions thing that will return but light out for the test. Exhaust was removed and many manny tweaks welds later was sorted. A new lower arm was ordered from ebay. 

As a surprise I nipped the car round to my MOT guy and a clean passed sees one very deserving lady happy. 

Much work van tinkering had occured, services and parking sensors, MOT repairs. 3 more to do this week!

Tyres on peugeot partner and new rear brakes after a burst wheel cyclinder. What an absolute ball ache to bleed they are! 

Have a v70 volvo with a shitty heater  blower to investigate tonight for a friend. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Time out

Seems its that time again, the ever dependable Astra has been the tool to get me away and feel a bit happier in life. Oil quickly checked and thats it, out to wales for a couple of nights, a bittersweet trip but lets keep it to shite cars. 

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Driving home i was lucky enough for it to snow while i was away. As a lover of the cold, its Just perfection.

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All about the timing

With a few days empty, now seemed a good time to button up the patchy punto.

Last thing on the list was a timing belt and water pump. I Had a kit in stock at the workshop for the panda and figured id lob this on. Computer at work suggests correct for cars engine number. . .  wrong. This should have a wider belt according to the catalogue but has an earlier narrow belt.  The aux belt and old timing belt have lacia logos on them so are original. While it was stripped down i couldnt find anything timing mark wise. Nothing seemed to match mine on google. 

Figured id just paint some marks and do it that way when i got a kit. Speaking with a customer at work , he strongly advised using the locking kit and lent me his for a day.  Life happened and the day i planned to do it went south, i gave the tool back and decided i just buy my own at 14 quid and can use it on the panda too.  Went to buy it and it was out of stock! All the others on ebay were china only that i could find. 

With lack of staff at work i worked extra days and time to dick around with the punto became a low priority so i left it for some time untill the other day when the locking kit came back in stock and i hit the buy now. 

Remove this

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Looks about due!

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5 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

All about the timing

With a few days empty, now seemed a good time to button up the patchy punto.

Last thing on the list was a timing belt and water pump. I Had a kit in stock at the workshop for the panda and figured id lob this on. Computer at work suggests correct for cars engine number. . .  wrong. This should have a wider belt according to the catalogue but has an earlier narrow belt.  The aux belt and old timing belt have lacia logos on them so are original. While it was stripped down i couldnt find anything timing mark wise. Nothing seemed to match mine on google. 

Figured id just paint some marks and do it that way when i got a kit. Speaking with a customer at work , he strongly advised using the locking kit and lent me his for a day.  Life happened and the day i planned to do it went south, i gave the tool back and decided i just buy my own at 14 quid and can use it on the panda too.  Went to buy it and it was out of stock! All the others on ebay were china only that i could find. 

With lack of staff at work i worked extra days and time to dick around with the punto became a low priority so i left it for some time untill the other day when the locking kit came back in stock and i hit the buy now. 

Remove this

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Looks about due!

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Looks like that was on borrowed time, good save!

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With access gained, i get the locking tools out and unless im being thick, dont suit this engine. So sod it, i just marked it up. I used the locking part for the crank so that couldnt move. And upto i scribed a mark ln the top pulley. I painted a mark on both pulleys and the belt. Belt off

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New tensioner bearing

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Waterpump fitted and belt tensioned up to what felt right.  Couple of rotations all seems well (its non interferance anyway).

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Left for the night while the sealant on the pump dries. 

 

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3 hours ago, Andyrew said:

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With access gained, i get the locking tools out and unless im being thick, dont suit this engine. So sod it, i just marked it up. I used the locking part for the crank so that couldnt move. And upto i scribed a mark ln the top pulley. I painted a mark on both pulleys and the belt. Belt off

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New tensioner bearing

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Waterpump fitted and belt tensioned up to what felt right.  Couple of rotations all seems well (its non interferance anyway).

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Left for the night while the sealant on the pump dries. 

 

I think the narrow belted engine has the flexible square oil filler cap, the other has a circular cap.

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1 hour ago, artdjones said:

I think the narrow belted engine has the flexible square oil filler cap, the other has a circular cap.

Sounds right, this does have the square rubber bung style cap.

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Triple checked. 

The little fiat was stripped down. I re checked everthing all looking good. Put it all back together and upon fitting the pipe between the airbox and rocker cover i noted a split on the pipe that spurs off to the inlet, so a vac leak on the inlet. Repaired the pipe, battery back on and it fired up and ran okay. So guess that was it. Coolant topped up, pipes squeeze. Found a bleed screw at the back on the heater core hoses but someones glued in a bolt so im not touching that! 

Parked it on the steepest incline in the yard so the rad car was the highest point (a real handbrake to the max kinda incline) and topped it up each time it burped anything out. 

So all sorted and ready for an MOT really, not happening anytime soon tho. 

 

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Crusty ring

This week the SLK that belongs to a mates partner came over for me to have a look at the rear ABS rings. A few weeks back it kept throwing a hissy fit, kicking into limp mode and the gearbox going into a bad mood. 

Plugged a reader in and it flagged the EML as a wheel speed fault. 

Up on the lift i suggested we check the rings having had faults like this on the freeland and combo previously on this thread. 

Sure enough the rings had expanded and caught the housing and making the air gap too small im assuming. 

Hmmmmm mercedes crust. 

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Unbolted from the diff and the crown nut being ugga dugga like an absolute bastrd. The shafts came out

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And back in. 

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The n.s required the exhuast to be lowered down and the randome brace to be unbolt one end too. 

50 ish mile test drive and all is well. 

 

 

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