Ghostly Goings On - over the moon

[SiC]

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3136381483243596

[Ghosty]

Window regulator time. 

Strip the door card off - unscrew the escutcheon and arm rest and it just pulls off. 

Unbolt glass by moving window up and down (I'm lucky the window was moving freely) to access 10mm bolts through provided holes. 

Window regulator comes off on two 14mm nuts at the top of the door and another two under the bottom. 

Winder cable unclips, winder would have unbolted (3x 10mm nut) but was MIA - turned out to be in the boot. The cable had snapped. 

Refitting is the reverse of removal, though you need to unbolt the front window runner (2 10mm bolts) to let the winder mechanism past it. With the addition of a new winder handle from a breakers, we have a working window. 

 

Took about an hour, the hardest part was lining the glass up with the bolt holes on the new regulator. 

[Crackers]

Need to do the drivers window on mine as the window bush is binding - TADTS. 

How's the MPG now more GLF is possible? I got 37 the other day over 300 motorway miles, New record 😲

[Ghosty]

29 minutes ago, Crackers said:

How's the MPG now more GLF is possible? I got 37 the other day over 300 motorway miles, New record 😲

It seems to be doing 350 to a tank which comes out as 40mpg... I guess the low output 1.6 and some free breathing helps that. Not done a full tank on the new tyres yet, mind. I'll report back in time... 

[Ghosty]

More things today.

MX5's handbrake is a bit shit, so let's adjust it. Calipers first, then the lever. 



Ah, there's the problem. Caliper has been replaced and someone forgot (?) to put the cable in. Loads better now. 

In other news, I was idly browsing eBay yesterday, and I found a fourth-gen Civic hatch. Early prefacelift on an F, grey, 75k, rot free (sill bodges aside) and garaged most of its life - same owner since Aug '89. 
Showed the mother and she was rather excited - she loved my old hatch. She was a bit miffed when the coupe left - my dad sold it to me without consulting her, so she lost out on a car. So I got dispensation to bid on this on her behalf, as she likes these more than the coupes (and they're just cooler). 

And bid I did, and after successfully outwitting someone who was lobbing increment bids at it last minute, I won, for a pretty fair price. 
I messaged the seller, and she informs me it's her neighbour's car and gives me his phone number. Mum and I spoke to him, he's an old boy and it's his wife's car. It's all agreed for me to go and collect it on Saturday  

[Ghosty]

MX5 diff no longer leaks - one of the plugs was loose. Got my dad to change the oil as I'd have just got EP90 everywhere. 

It's had the one new disc fitted to the back as one of them had glazed and started grooving, too. The diff oil has made a massive difference! Silky smooth now. I'm away to see a mate in Bristol next weekend in it. 

With the passenger window working, I've decided that the hardtop can stay on semi-permanently as the cabin has excellent airflow with the windows open. Besides, it's too big to fit in my shed full of mountain bikes. 

I'm on a train at 8:55, I should probably go to sleep soon. 

[Ghosty]

Hm, wha? cider?

Morning. I'm on a train to London. 

No pics yet as on the way here I bumped into one of my neighbours that I went to primary school with and started talking about CVs. 

Also, it'd be boring.

 

There is no defecation incrementation yet. 

[Ghosty]

Weird weather here. Not nice. 

[Ghosty]

Pigs on the wing...

[Ghosty]

Banstead achieved. That's the railway station... 

[beko1987]

Oooh chod speed! 

[High Jetter]

58 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Banstead achieved

Posh area, according to friends who live there.

[Ghosty]

[Ghosty]

14 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Posh area, according to friends who live there.

Yep, typical leafy Surrey. 

 

I spotted this MX5, registered very close to mine - and Cartell reckons, another Monza: 

 

[Ghosty]

Currently in Warwick having dinner. 

Car is faultless, just needs a wash and an ATF change. 

[Ghosty]

Home! This is how my driveway looks now:

 

 

 

Mum's happy. Car hasn't missed a beat. I've nicked one of the keys. It's a bit cleaner now as it pissed it down on the M6 Toll. Still needs a full going over though. 

To do:

tyres - braking in the wet is an experience but fine otherwise
change ATF - clunky shifts
tracking
wheeltrims (new ones waiting) 
clean
heated rear window inop
passenger speaker inop
source dashmat and original trims
service 

This is a permanent fleet member, to be slowly restored.

[High Jetter]

Civic duty completed!

[Noel Tidybeard]

9 hours ago, Ghosty said:

look at Ghosty with his own personal AA man standing by! 😲

[Ghosty]

These trims were on my sedan when I bought it (and I think had been since 1993). They'll do for now. 

[Ghosty]

I bought these for something else, but they're the wrong size. However, a perfect fit in the new Civic, and an improvement over one knackered and one blown. 

Started to clean it up, and the ATF has had its first change for an immediate improvement. 

I've sourced a dash mat and the correct wheel trims for it, the latter of which I'm off to get later. 

 

 

 

[Crackers]

On 18/06/2022 at 21:41, Ghosty said:

This is a permanent fleet member

*raises eyebrow*

[Dave_Q]

Ah, I see you've seen Ghosty's 90s Jap Megashuffle before

[Ghosty]

18 minutes ago, Crackers said:

*raises eyebrow*

It's because it's my mum's officially. 

[GregZX]

On 6/18/2022 at 9:41 PM, Ghosty said:

Home! This is how my driveway looks now:

 

 

 

Mum's happy. Car hasn't missed a beat. I've nicked one of the keys. It's a bit cleaner now as it pissed it down on the M6 Toll. Still needs a full going over though. 

To do:

tyres - braking in the wet is an experience but fine otherwise
change ATF - clunky shifts
tracking
wheeltrims (new ones waiting) 
clean
heated rear window inop
passenger speaker inop
source dashmat and original trims
service 

This is a permanent fleet member, to be slowly restored.

[Ghosty]

This appeared this morning. The fart can really has to go. 

I spent the day giving it a vacuum out and reassembling the interior - everything was in place but the screws had been taken out (?!) as someone had planned on breaking it. 
 

Steering wheel is being replaced with a Personal leather one - that's not the original wheel, it's from a Civic or low spec CRX. 
The brake lights are stuck on, due to what I think is a fault with the brake light switch. 
Passenger window doesn't work. 


Otherwise, it's alright. Rust needs looking at - taking the sill trims off tomorrow. 
 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

This appeared this morning. The fart can really has to go. 

I spent the day giving it a vacuum out and reassembling the interior - everything was in place but the screws had been taken out (?!) as someone had planned on breaking it. 
 

Steering wheel is being replaced with a Personal leather one - that's not the original wheel, it's from a Civic or low spec CRX. 
The brake lights are stuck on, due to what I think is a fault with the brake light switch. 
Passenger window doesn't work. 


Otherwise, it's alright. Rust needs looking at - taking the sill trims off tomorrow. 
 

Oof. I weighed up buying one of these around twenty years ago and ended up buying another Mk2 Golf GTi. I still partly regret that decision...

What's the story with this one? I don't remember reading a backstory on here.

Edit: I see it was auctioned on fb a couple of years back. Momo looked tidy 😉

[catsinthewelder]

7 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

as someone had planned on breaking it. 

Glad to see he saw sense and sold it to you.

[loserone]

Oh alright, I will admit that looks cool 

[Schaefft]

Epic! My older brother owned 2 of these before and I want one, too! All of them seem outrageously priced though!

Dibs!

Edit: And unless this really is completely rotten, someone considering breaking a 2nd gen CRX really just confirms how mental some people in this country still are.

[Ghosty]

Just now, Dick Longbridge said:

What's the story with this one? I don't remember reading a backstory on here.

When I had my Aerodeck this time last year, I realised how it drove was exactly what I wanted in a 'fun' car. Unfortunately it was fucked - I wanted something that had the same feel, but not messed about with. 
I realised later on, watching Hondas going up Santa Pod, that what I should probably look for is something with a B-series, they sound good when done right, aren't hard to work on, etc. But a car that came with a factory B, not one that'd been swapped in. 

A while later, having realised the fourth gen Civic is the right car for me, I basically concluded that a CRX was the way to go. I wanted a black SiR, and eventually I found one. It happened to be in Bristol, and I had a reason to be in Bristol, so it all came together. Price was ok all things considered, so went through with it: life's too short etc.