Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

toyotaavensis

is your speedo in miles or km?

rizzee

220 mph would be nice wouldn't it Speedo is km. Clock is miles but you can change it in the cars menu, I prefer viewing it in miles myself. Says 63k in it but that photo was taken last year, one of the few I had of the inside.

toyotaavensis

makes sense now
I saw the speedo and said the numbers must be km but your ad says 70K miles and i didnt realise you can have the clock in km and the odometer in miles.
best of luck with the sale

Supergurrier

Oh adverts

Ardennes1944

Why selling so soon Rizzee??

rizzee

@Ardennes1944 just testing the water really, i'm more than happy to keep it. Just seeing if a decent cash offer comes in or something interesting to trade for. But i'm content with it at the minute, don't mind either way.

Supergurrier

People who make offers w/o seeing the car are generally time wasters anyway.

Test the water by all means its full of single cell organisms though

maceocc2

Replaced steering rack, blaahhhhh whoooore of a job jaysus. ....

Changed front hub on drivers side for one I got from the breakers. Car drives great again!

Hal1

Fuel filter done at last. Going to test drive it now. Just got to watch out for the men in the bushes though :pac:.

Alanstrainor

Hal1 wrote: »

Fuel filter done at last. Going to test drive it now. Just got to watch out for the men in the bushes though :pac:.

I have a fuel filter sitting in my shed...really should get it in the car.

I adjusted my handbrake today, I know have a functioning handbrake! Great success!

Hal1

Just taking advantage of my day off and the fact the weather is playing ball . Now where's my keys...

dgt

Just trying to tidy things up a bit :cool:

So, to whip the body loom and engine loom out, the dash, mount and heater all have to come out (no not that type of come out!!!)


Airbag cables all fully disconnected. Non seat airbags/roof bag type loom with decent ECU, I'll use that


Engine loom next. As before, on the V6 it runs through the bulkhead. Not difficult to remove


Just remove the ABS module (yeah I just chopped it out :pac:)


And there's the whole loom out


Next day ill be the full body loom I hope! Shall be fun re-installing it :pac:

I need that loom and the body loom, I have a few to choose from so I'll be picking the best one for myself

corkgsxr

My aim for Monday is get the van as far under 2 ton as I can.

Was at the scrappy and saw the vans 2180 without me in it. I need to cut the **** I keep in it. Dont use half of it

CianRyan

corkgsxr wrote: »

My aim for Monday is get the van as far under 2 ton as I can.

Was at the scrappy and saw the vans 2180 without me in it. I need to cut the **** I keep in it. Dont use half of it

Must be big enough, what model is it?

corkgsxr

CianRyan wrote: »

Must be big enough, what model is it?

Nope. Its a short and low trafic. Just so much spares and gear

CianRyan

My boss has one of those, you'd want a fair bit of gear in there alright.
Don't forget to throw out all the old fag boxes and breakfast rolls.

corkgsxr

I average about 300 miles a week stop start driving round the city. Too much weight

joujoujou

Yesterday's NCT...



And here's the reason:





Both replaced today, retest booked - saturday, 22 of March.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

So today I screwed the fuel pump in the carina up to the max, treated some rust, and put on the northern style plates that I have had sitting around for ages.



I also treated a lot of surface rust on the underbody of the gmc c1500. Thankfully it wasn't chassis rust and hopefully by getting it early I stopped the spread.

cabb8ge

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I have a fuel filter sitting in my shed...really should get it in the car.

I adjusted my handbrake today, I know have a functioning handbrake! Great success!

Were new shoes need ?

Alanstrainor

cabb8ge wrote: »

Were new shoes need ?

Well they are needed, as the old ones are not in great shape. Just used the adjusters in the drum to get me out of a jam. I'll get them done eventually.

GvidoR

- Topped it up with some 10w40 motor oil.

- Stuck a pod filter on it.

- Tidied up the interior.

dgt

So I set fire to my car today


In order to remove the body loom


Bonus part I chopped up the crap alarm and it has a signal booster for the radio, yaaaay!!!

Not a bad interior eh :pac:


Moving to my silver 156, I decided to work some magic on the door



Make it into a 3 door


MAGIC


Assembling the XUD later this evening, at long last :cool:

corkgsxr

Iv learned setting fire to cars doesnt really help.

never forget after driving round for 2 days thinking the exhaust was loose and banging we got around to go weld it (friends 98ish 316 beemer) jacked up the back left corner and car went up but wheel didn't. The big m3 wheels work hardened the top mount and broke it like a spider web.

so in I went welded one seam, put the fire out, cleared the smoke and went to the next seam till it went too much on fire. Got there in the end.


so back to today. Removed 7 big bags of rubbish and a toolbox. Much cleaner now

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Removing the layers of mud from some off roading - prior to the rust removal







Oh and here's a picture of my "eureka" moment when I found an easier way to access the fuel pump in the carina. DGT you might remember how difficult it was to access this??

Noccy_Mondy

Jaysus, how long and wide is that bus CHP? Seems like it'd show its authority on the road :P

toastedpickles

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Jaysus, how long and wide is that bus CHP? Seems like it'd show its authority on the road :P

It can move when it wants to

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Make it into a 3 door
MAGIC
Assembling the XUD later this evening, at long last :cool:

Did you just swap it with another door?! If not, how did you fix it!?




I own a Toyota Rav4. Has anyone any idea where I'd need to go to to see this view of the clutch:

Is that looking up from the ground under the car? (I also have the squeaky clutch of doom).

I also have two separate annoying rattles from the dash that I need to sort out. One is (apparently) likely to do with the cowl on front of the car having a clip broken on it somewhere or such, so I'll take that off, I reckon, and take a mooch under it. It's like a 'chirp' (as its been described on another forum). A high-pitched squeak that only seems present when the front left (wheel?) of the car hits rough terrain.

The other i cant seem to figure out what it could be. It's like a dull, slow grinding kind of noise (poor description of what its like, i know) and seems intermittent.


I've had these before and they went away for about 6-8 weeks. Now they're back and annoying me again. They must die!

dgt

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Oh and here's a picture of my "eureka" moment when I found an easier way to access the fuel pump in the carina. DGT you might remember how difficult it was to access this??

Remember I didn't have my tools with me, just whatever I could work with at the time! Did you get the protective collar off?

Deleted User wrote: »

Did you just swap it with another door?! If not, how did you fix it!?

Yeah.... About that.... You sussed me :pac:

Got my head on too

XUD uses spacers to prevent damage to the aluminum


New bolts. Oil them very lightly


Lookin' good!


Tightening sequence is quite odd (but as it's French that's a given it'll be weird) it's non diagonal

Stage 1 was 15 lbs
Stage 2 was 44.25 lbs
Stage 3 was a horrible 220 degrees angle tightening. With a T55 bit I was afraid of it breaking.... Also hard to hold the engine compared to the 8140 engine

Finished :cool:


Tomorrow I'll be re-timing it (cam off, flywheel on and find TDC) cam seals, water pump, belt and assemble the rest if I have time