Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

CianRyan

Gary ITR wrote: »

I do it all by hand still. Starting another engine build and again will be all done by hand. I have my technique down though :-P

What's this, another blown b series? :pac:

Supergurrier

Fair man for the hand jobs alright

:pac:

Keano

Changed interior lights on my golf to LEDs. Difference is amazing

Ded_Zebra

Today I lost my timing belt virginity!

Changed the belt, water pump, and tentioner on my sisters Punto. Also did a coolant flush. Took me about 5 hours though . Dgt could probably do it in about 45 minutes

Also discovered that there was barely a mark of oil on the dipstick :rolleyes:.Toped it up and will probably change it next weekend along with a throttle body clean. Should probably change the gear oil too:)

Supergurrier

I did nothing, but i also did nothing but sit around watching telly when i could have been spending money.

My dastardly plan is coming together nicely

Gary ITR

CianRyan wrote: »

What's this, another blown b series? :pac:

A winter project. My race engine is tip top :-)

colincork

Upgraded door speakers
Painted my brake calipers
Washed, compounded and polished and waxed

All in all a very productive day. Just waiting on my new alloys to be delivered to give it the final touch

Killinator

Past my NCT.
TWO MORE YEARS, TWO MORE YEARS!!!

bmstuff

Did that the other night, hardwired safety camera with GPS, nice and clean e90, fair play to the owner

Toyotafanboi

i am really wanting a dash cam! cool job.

bmstuff

BMW E63 Logic7 retrofit in progress...will be finished tomorrow

Mar4ix

went through head wrecking work. vw passat , b5 , 2001, 1.9 tdi , had no heating inside, all coolant was pushed out from system, very similar to head gasket failure, or to failed water pump but not all symptoms in present.

There was diesel in coolant , which was due faulty diesel heating sandwich on top of diesel filter, all rubber seals gone, will have to replace them all in cooling system.

So the real problem with cooling system was thermostat, which fell apart caused by diesel in coolant ... and previous owner was driving for good while.



wonder , where to get o rings for cooling system. local motorfactors didnt had them.

Interslice

Mar4ix wrote: »

wonder , where to get o rings for cooling system. local motorfactors didnt had them.

I got o-rings from the main dealer before. Was about 5 euro for 2 though.

You on vagcat? handy site. The other option is to check the size on there and buy a full set that contains those sizes.

Can be tricky to register so here's the pic.


http://www.vagcat.com/epc/cat/vw/PA/2001/226/49/2837423/

Mar4ix

Interslice wrote: »

I got o-rings from the main dealer before. Was about 5 euro for 2 though.

You on vagcat? handy site. The other option is to check the size on there and buy a full set that contains those sizes.

Can be tricky to register so here's the pic.


http://www.vagcat.com/epc/cat/vw/PA/2001/226/49/2837423/

Thanks for picture. Very handy. Got registered in that forum. No hassle at all. Thanks.

dgt

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Schmoked up the carina by turning up the fuel pump (well DGT did while I watched with interest )

Oh, and added a few new badges to the carinalfamw!

Lets not forget the promotional pic :pac:

MetzgerMeister

Gave the car a wash, detar and a light clay then spent most of the day applying 2 coats of Gtechniq EXO. Worked in the dark for 2 hours of it with a halogen lamp. The roof and bonnet have yet to be done. It's looking slick though

bmstuff

Finished product...and no sound
Turns out the amplifier supplied was faulty, lucky enough we had a spare one that we tried and it worked straight away.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

CianRyan wrote: »

If that oul lad could see his car now. Hahaha

Haha, or the drips of oil on my drive as it reeeeeaaallly needs a new rocker cover/gasket.

Oh and I practically burnt out the clutch drifting on a private field.


And, with the fuel pump turned up she is a smoke machine, even at idle!

Scortho

When's she getting straight piped

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Scortho wrote: »

When's she getting straight piped

Ask our resident dr frankenstein of cars, DGT , if he has any more coat hangers around :P

Seriously, I want to keep it in a state that it is easily temporarily modified back to pass the NCT.
At the moment it is only the fuel pump I need to turn down.
Next step is to de-cat.

Marcinek_55

I didn't do that much job as user above but i did polish my front lights today:

Before:



In progress:



After:



All:

MetzgerMeister

Wow well done Marcin! You did all that work and it made fvck all difference :P

JohnBoy26

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Wow well done Marcin! You did all that work and it made fvck all difference :P

It did though, look up by the indicator :-)

dgt

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Wow well done Marcin! You did all that work and it made fvck all difference :P

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

It did though, look up by the indicator :-)

Marcinek_55

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Wow well done Marcin! You did all that work and it made fvck all difference :P

When i'll see you driving during some night i will turn all my lights on to show you the different

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Marcinek_55 wrote: »

When i'll see you driving during some night i will turn all my lights on to show you the different

Sure you wouldn't see him if you had lights on, the glare off his car :P (dints on the door aside )

Truckermal

I was off today so I decided to take out the EGR valve in the Avensis so I could see how clogged it was. Amazingly it was clean as a whistle with zero build up of soot.

My rear window demister wasn't working so I traced it to a broken wire so that's working a treat now!!

Seweryn

Checked the fluids, and then hovered and washed the Lady.

CianRyan

Standard VTI?

Seweryn

CianRyan wrote: »

Standard VTI?

Ultra Standard VTi.

With a factory radio and all the jazz that "normally" shouldn't be there from the second owner down.