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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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advertsfox wrote: »Fuel sender finally replaced in the C5 (under rear seat access, 20 minute job for my mechanic) and the car now starts lovely and quick AKA normally
Two things I've learned since getting this sorted...
* Dealers can be right pricks to deal with, regardless of warranty.
* Dodgy / washed diesel can really mess your engine up.
PS: Don't buy diesel for the Ross Station, Old Dunshaughlin to Navan Road (parallel to M3).
Was the sender the problem in the end? Are they expensive or did you get one from a scrap car?0 -
Got Myself some new bits for the e38
Comfort Seats (Heated )
Rear Power Heated seats.
rear phone / MID / seat / blind controls
chromeline wood handles and rear wood lamps
leather and wood B pillars
rear climate control
(only the first is my photo, the rest are stolen)
have almost everything I need for the e38 project to be complete0 -
Lachlan Angry Scooter wrote: »I didn't really do that much I suppose, but did have a fiddle around with the car yesterday, it's a 1996 Pug 406 19. td I bought about 2 months ago. Got it for 750 and had to fix a few problems a couple of weeks ago that I didn't spot... bushings, rocker cover seal, driver door needed a good bending as there was a loud whistle above 70, and the fuel filler neck was dodgy, culminating in me being stuck at Topaz for about 20 minutes one time because the bloody fuel pump wouldn't come out of the car! Had a big incident a few weeks ago which I thought was caused by the turbo, dgt kindly supplied me with a replacement, big thanks for that, legend of a guy! Mech has all but ruled out the turbo after a thorough inspection, might be an injector problem. I'll bring a mechanic next time
Inside of windscreen and windows are really badly misting in the mornings, need to look further into this, had a look at door seals etc. but nothing obvious. Need to get a new pollen filter too.
Fitted new flat blade wipers as the old ones looked like they were the original wipers that came on the car! :eek:
Fixed an electric window, switch was dodgy, turns out the plastic casing had cracked, allowing the actual button that you push to move downwards when pushed, resulting in the micro switch underneath not being triggered. Bit of superglue sorted it nicely. 2 windows still faulty. One has broken cables in the door and the other could be the regulator, it behaves very erratically!
Rear demister switch also not working, and the bulb in the time clock is missing altogether. Pulled apart the demister switch completely as I couldn't see anything obvious when I removed it from the console. Spent a good hour at it and I came to the conclusion that the micro switch was fried. There were mechanical parts broken but I swapped them out with parts from another switch and no joy. Off to ebay for that one.
Time clock was another fruitless exploit unfortunately. I have fitted an aftermarket radio to the car, so the MFD is useless now. I pulled a working bulb out of the MFD to see if it would fit only to realise the part you put the bulb into the time clock was also gone. Bulb was wrong size too and therefore probably wrong voltage/ampage. That didn't stop me trying though! Filed down the sides of the bulb so I could fit it behind the clock's screen, jury rigged a wiring harness and connected up the bulb and glued it in place so I could reassemble and test it. Plugged it in and nothing. Ebay again!
Electric mirrors switch busted too, pulled it apart, nothing obvious. guess where I'm buying a new one
Had to buy a new gear knob too as the current one is a wreck, the plastic gear map has come out and edges of the circle around it are all jagged and broken, almost painful to change gears quickly.
I destroyed my undertray backing a trailer into the garden, a hedge branch tore most of it off. Stitched it up good and proper!
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My main work was to do with the air intake pipe though. Its location is a bit of a design flaw and there are people all over the net who say their 406 has been hydrolocked from driving through very shallow water or even large puddles. Seeing my area is constantly getting floods during winter I thought I'd better see to this sooner rather than later! A quick fix is to just pull the pipe off the air filter till you're past the water but I don't want to have to keep doing this and also drawing hot air from the engine bay into the engine.
The pipe currently runs from the bottom of the air filter downwards, with a 90 degree bend towards the passenger side of the car. It runs from there into the left front wheel arch.
This red line is where I'm thinking of running the new pipe. I found a gap down the side of the radiator leading to the grille. You can see the gap in the 2nd photo, there's a small bit of light in the middle.
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The standard air pipe is 7" wide, and a pipe that big won't fit, so I'm thinking of 3 or 4 sections of 4" pipe or 2 5" pipes, joining them together inside the engine bay once they're clear of the rad.
The idea is that the open end of the pipes are much higher up than the standard intake. I'm not sure whether plastic or rubber piping would stand up better to heat fluctuations from being so close to the rad, but I'm guessing rubber seeing as the pipes coming out of the rad are rubber.
the second problem is that rain water could very easily come through the grille and into the pipes if im driving at speed. The only thing I can think of to solve that would be to bend the ends of the pipes back on themselves using a cable tie, so the open part of the pipes will be facing the front of the rad. Id say the airflow would be good enough when I'm moving that the pipes will still draw cold air in. They might take in warm air at idle but that makes no difference!
Good or bad idea?
Glad the turbo worked out for you what's the problem though, rough running?
Quite surprised to see a 96 one with an ECU!
Clock bulb is simple to replace, but an arse to get to. Off with the fascia and speedo, unclip it from the inside. Same bulbs as the dash bulbs
You could take a leaf from my book, use another airbox up high and turn it the other way. Works surprisingly well, last few weeks have been a good test
Since then I've modified the breather so it's in the pipework 0 -
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »car park **** got me bad the other week. pretty disgusted with it, must be easy 3-4 inches tall.
That's annoying alright. Hard to see it in the pics, as your car is shining so much all I see is reflection.0 -
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So today I learned some very valuable lessons
How to spray trims, and how not to spray center consoles!
So without further adooo :P
But what I really wanted to get done today was the center console, I had planned on doing it in matt black, so here's how I went about it
Started off by keying the surface with 600 grit, and then 800 grit sandpaper
Then after this I cleaned it, just used white spirits and a cloth, hung it up to dry, and ran a heat gun over it to get rid of the damp
So with the first layer of primer
The second
And dried!
Good and dry! So on with the first coat of matt black, then sh1t hit the fan
As soon as it began to dry this began to happen
Massive chemical reaction with something either on the primer, the surface or the conditions in the place
Not fun at all
So, I had to strip the paint off in an effort to repair it somewhat, again start with 600 grit, then 800 and lastly 1200, sadly it didn't work
So the plan is to strip it, and start again! bit of a steep learning curve but we all have to start somewhere 0 -
Yes the sender was the issue, sourced one off eBay (identical model number, down as a Peugeot 307 fuel sender) for €40 with shipping from a low mileage scrapper and she's all working lovely nowWas the sender the problem in the end? Are they expensive or did you get one from a scrap car? 0 -
Glad the turbo worked out for you what's the problem though, rough running?
Quite surprised to see a 96 one with an ECU!
Clock bulb is simple to replace, but an arse to get to. Off with the fascia and speedo, unclip it from the inside. Same bulbs as the dash bulbs
You could take a leaf from my book, use another airbox up high and turn it the other way. Works surprisingly well, last few weeks have been a good test
Since then I've modified the breather so it's in the pipework
Problem hasn't really shown itself since. What happened was after a 4 hour drive the engine revved its nuts off for a few seconds making a huge thick cloud of black smoke and soot left along the road. I had just clutched so didn't rocket forward into the guy in front luckily. After the revving stopped there was a stream of blue smoke and I quickly shut the engine off. Started it up again after a quick look under the bonnet and there was more blue smoke for maybe 5-10 minutes.
I thought the turbo had leaked a load of oil into the engine resulting in the revving and then was steadily streaming more in. Since then no major symptoms, bar some white smoke and bad spluttering for a few seconds when cold starting but that was happening beforehand!
To be honest the mech isn't sure what caused it, but no sign of any problems with the turbo so that's basically ruled it out. She's running fine since then, maybe a tiny drop in power (could be in my head though) but haven't gone for a long drive since it happened. He mentioned the injectors when we were talking but I had to rush to work, going to hand it over during the week if I can and he can have a fiddle around. Hopefully it was just a freak incident but my luck is never that good!
Looks good, might try that!
What's the red cable passing in front of your fuel filter if you don't mind me asking??0 -
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Lachlan Angry Scooter wrote: »Problem hasn't really shown itself since. What happened was after a 4 hour drive the engine revved its nuts off for a few seconds making a huge thick cloud of black smoke and soot left along the road. I had just clutched so didn't rocket forward into the guy in front luckily. After the revving stopped there was a stream of blue smoke and I quickly shut the engine off. Started it up again after a quick look under the bonnet and there was more blue smoke for maybe 5-10 minutes.
I thought the turbo had leaked a load of oil into the engine resulting in the revving and then was steadily streaming more in. Since then no major symptoms, bar some white smoke and bad spluttering for a few seconds when cold starting but that was happening beforehand!
To be honest the mech isn't sure what caused it, but no sign of any problems with the turbo so that's basically ruled it out. She's running fine since then, maybe a tiny drop in power (could be in my head though) but haven't gone for a long drive since it happened. He mentioned the injectors when we were talking but I had to rush to work, going to hand it over during the week if I can and he can have a fiddle around. Hopefully it was just a freak incident but my luck is never that good!
Looks good, might try that!
What's the red cable passing in front of your fuel filter if you don't mind me asking??
That sounds like it was over filled with oil and the engine got a taste of it. Whip off the cooler pipes and see if there's excess amounts of oil in them (there will be a bit anyway due to the breather and all that)
Could also be from when it last blew the oil seals, there could have been a bit left over in the bottom of the intercooler and sucked it in....
The red cable is my way of bypassing the immobiliser. Also my way of immobilising the car fully once disconnected
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So just a bit of an update
Stripped the paint off today, bit of work to be done but sure, it'l give me something to do
Anyways, used Nitro Mors to strip it off, pretty straight forward so here's the first layer
Once the paint blisters up, stick on another layer, wait 40 minutes and scrape it off and you end up with something like this
Sanded it with 240 grit and you get this
The plan is to work it up to 1200 grit, so work in progress!0 -
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Gave the car a quick wash with AG shampoo and a thorough going over and clean under the arches etc. being the mad hatter i am, 2 coats of jetseal straight onto the paint and glass with no prepwork other than drying the car :pac:. Meguiars endurance gel on the tyres. looks great imo, but that might just be because its clean
fitted my c-pillar brace and rear strut tower brace too.
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Just a minor exhaust adjustment.... Welding up a clamp
Mmmmm.... Felt spec boot :pac:
The longest part was setting it all up. I needed another jack to get the jack in to jack the car (Yo dawg, we heard you like jacks..... :pac:)
Time for a test. As it's a coat stand what better way to test than....
Also checked the 535i exhaust, shall be a pig to re-jig it.... And put my back out installing a clutch cable 0 -
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picked up this tanabe chassis brace for the glanza starlet junk is really coming down in price from what it was 2-3 years ago. supply and demand may have finally shifted the wrong way as there are probably more broken now than there is still on the road.
edit : note to self; must stay off of DoneDeal and TOC classified section. spent wayyyy too much lately.0 -
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Gave the car a hoover, topped up fluids, tyres done, the basics. Will be getting a good wash in the morning!
Fixed the after market alarm that was in the car when bought, bit of a wiring problem but was easy enough in the end!
Quick video, going to get induction kit and possibly a straight through pipe for more performance and a bit of a sporty sound... any suggestions?
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Gave the car a hoover, topped up fluids, tyres done, the basics. Will be getting a good wash in the morning!
Fixed the after market alarm that was in the car when bought, bit of a wiring problem but was easy enough in the end!
Quick video, going to get induction kit and possibly a straight through pipe for more performance and a bit of a sporty sound... any suggestions?
Tilt your head
You can rotate vids on youtube
Induction kits are usually ****, either go mystery pipe or go custom....
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How do I rotate? First video i've uploaded to youtube!! Hmmm take off the original box, stick on the bendy washing dryer tubes ( ) with a 20 quid universal air filter at the end? Sorted
Video manager is where you rotate them
Sporting had a big bendy pipe from another car that fitted it perfectly, just needed extending at the end and a standard cotton filter. The van used a Ducato exhaust with a 12v hose, reducer and 85 ELX pipework, also with cotton filter.... The way I see it is why pay for a very sought after and expensive gsr when one can make something that is far cheaper and does the job better :cool: 0
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