jimi
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May 17, 2021 17:13:45 GMT
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Are you still getting the voltage dips ?
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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mk2cossie
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May 17, 2021 18:33:38 GMT
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Are you still getting the voltage dips ? Yes, but not as severe as they were. Dips down to about 13-13.5 now, and doesn't jolt the car when the fan cuts in. When I checked the hoses and radiator for temperature on Saturday, the bottom hose was about 60 degrees, the top hose was about 82. The thermostat is meant to start opening at 88, and fully open at 102. And the cooling fan is switched on and off by the ECU. It would appear that the ECU temp sender is seeing high enough temps for the cooling fan activation, but the thermostat isn't fully open to allow coolant flow through the rad  |
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jimi
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May 17, 2021 19:02:37 GMT
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Could it have anything to do with your alternator bracket ? possibly the old bracket was flexing when a sudden load went on allowing a bit of belt slippage ? Feel free to tell me if you think think I'm blethering wibblepoo  |
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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mk2cossie
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May 17, 2021 19:06:35 GMT
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Could it have anything to do with your alternator bracket ? possibly the old bracket was flexing when a sudden load went on allowing a bit of belt slippage ? Feel free to tell me if you think think I'm blethering wibblepoo It could very well be that! I was never happy with the old slotted bracket  |
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mk2cossie
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May 28, 2021 21:01:52 GMT
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Levels checked, car vacuumed out, and camera battery currently on charge for the fun and games early tomorrow morning to get to Goodwood  What time will I arrive? Will Russell get to mine on time or oversleep? Will there be any breakdowns on the way there or home?  |
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May 28, 2021 21:12:45 GMT
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Good luck & have a good weekend.
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May 28, 2021 21:43:36 GMT
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See you tomorrow!!! It’s awesome already and that’s just the camping field! |
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mk2cossie
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Well, no news is good news right? Saturdays trek to Goodwood went well, many hours spent walking around and seeing some things turn up we missed on the first walking lap  Took many pics on my phone (mad panic sorting out my Canon compact camera battery charger, only to forget to pic up the camera before leaving in the morning ), and was impressed with the HWM Cadillac hooning around the sprint laps like he stole it  And even saw johnthesparky limp hack with a very wobbly nearside rear wheel Levels checked, bonnet shut and headed home at about 3:30pm with no issues, a slightly different route back through Tunbridge Wells, and not too much traffic either! Currently at work (on my week off) to finally replace the steering rack, and have noticed the water pump is now leaking. And the coolant header tank almost empty! So another thing to now sort out |
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i saw someone selling a 24v water pump the other day, ill see if i can find the details for you if you want
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Got the car from 105 bhp at the crank to 152 at the wheels.nitrous going on next.....if it ain't broke,keep bolting on go faster parts until it is........ www.fordgranadaclubuk.freefo.de |
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mk2cossie
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i saw someone selling a 24v water pump the other day, ill see if i can find the details for you if you want Same as the 2.9 12valve, so not difficult to get hold of thankfully  If it was a BOB however... |
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i saw someone selling a 24v water pump the other day, ill see if i can find the details for you if you want Same as the 2.9 12valve, so not difficult to get hold of thankfully The difficult bit is getting enough of the bolts out without snapping them off in the timing cover.... |
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mk2cossie
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Same as the 2.9 12valve, so not difficult to get hold of thankfully The difficult bit is getting enough of the bolts out without snapping them off in the timing cover.... Shush you |
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The difficult bit is getting enough of the bolts out without snapping them off in the timing cover.... When you're putting them back in use this stuff if the bolts go into alloy. SAS aluminium anti-sieze is what people recommend for the slanted head studs on Triumph slant 4s and Stag V8s which are always a royal pain to get out if they corrode (because they're slanted you can't just prize the head upwards). Seems to do the trick on them |
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mk2cossie
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Jun 12, 2021 11:43:46 GMT
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So all that kerfuffle about the water pump was unfounded! The coolant leak down the front of the water pump (and the back of the head that I thought was head gasket) appears to all have been caused by the thermostat housing leaking in to the middle of the vee and flowing out when it gets too high So steering rack was fitted without any real dramas, and even managed to replace a section of scabby return hose with the other section of alloy tube I had purchased      Once all fitted up, 2 litres of power steering fluid was flushed through the system with the return hose aimed in to a drain tray. All buttoned up and the tracking checked and adjusted to spec (with a smidge of toe out) and the steering is vastly improved! The electric PAS pump seems to be much quieter since as well. |
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mk2cossie
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Jun 12, 2021 12:24:12 GMT
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As I had ramp access on my week off work, I ended up at work everyday Steering rack swap went all good (and only a slight leak it seems), so I decided off with the bonnet and sort out the coolant leak and replace the duff thermostat that apparently wasn't fully opening. First thing was to pressure test the cooling system and see where the leak was coming from. All of it appeared to stem from the rear of the thermostat housing in the vee, so inlet manifold off and start the unbolting process   Whilst that deep in to the engine, I thought it wise to remove and inspect the coolant transfer pipe that sits in the middle and feeds the heater matrix. The thermostat housing was attacked inside with the die grinder, and smoothing it all off for my own piece of mind and the coolant transfer pipe was wire brushed and coated with some grey caliper paint to give it a chance of surviving for a few more years yet. The injector loom that was made up for the Emerald K3 many years ago by my friend made years ago hadn't done quite as well as expected tho  So that was tidied up, rewrapped with some PVC loom tape, and an old section of silicone hose tied around it to give it plenty of protection in the future, and popped back in to place    Unfortunately on reassembly the injector rail is an utter curse word and I caught an injector seal  So that was a fun Friday morning finding somewhere that had stock of new injector seals. Thankfully Thomas Diesel and Electric in Ashford had some, so I purchased a set of 12 for 6quid and got myself out of a pickle there. And a final picture of the offending parts  |
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mk2cossie
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Jun 14, 2021 22:10:48 GMT
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Well, something big is bound to happen now! I've booked a track session on the evening of the 19th August at Brands Hatch Shall have to at least replace the CV joints before then I guess  |
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it'll be fine, you've changed pretty much every single part on the car now. go pro footage coming i assume?
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Got the car from 105 bhp at the crank to 152 at the wheels.nitrous going on next.....if it ain't broke,keep bolting on go faster parts until it is........ www.fordgranadaclubuk.freefo.de |
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mk2cossie
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Jun 17, 2021 18:32:50 GMT
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it'll be fine, you've changed pretty much every single part on the car now. go pro footage coming i assume? The driveshafts have slack in the CV joints, and theres still oil escaping somewhere And ideally I'd like to swap the inlet manifold over to the posh modified one I had made years ago! And there will be GoPro footage if I can get some sort of approved mounting Generally MSV don't allow sucker mounts outside the car, and inside the car if it is also tethered from what I'm told at the moment |
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Jun 17, 2021 19:58:34 GMT
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SERIOUSLY?😲 ....... I bought a box of assorted mounts off Amazon ages ago for my go pro esque thingy. There's a mount that will fit a go pro to most stuff in in the kit. Even a clamp that clamps onto the passenger side headrest rod would be secure I'd have thought
Just remember, without footage, you were never there 🤣😂🤣😂. You could get a roll cage for the car..... Could mount a go pro to that🙄
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Got the car from 105 bhp at the crank to 152 at the wheels.nitrous going on next.....if it ain't broke,keep bolting on go faster parts until it is........ www.fordgranadaclubuk.freefo.de |
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mk2cossie
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Jun 20, 2021 18:28:18 GMT
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Yesterday I was mostly at the workshop, getting wound up at having misplaced my red paint pen But otherwise, it wasn't too bad a day working on the car. First job was to replace the passenger door mirror, as the multi plug had corroded away and my repair when I did the sound deadening had stopped working. New to me mirrors from everyone's favourite auction site purchased weeks ago, and in surprisingly good nick too! Mirror swapped over and tested, and nothing  Bum hats! Bit more digging, and the door side of the connector had also corroded away on one pin! So put the original mirror back on and shall content with that another day. The rest of the day was spent repurposing a BBQ that had been thrown in the metal skip So after deciding which part of the BBQ was best for my intended purpose, I went for a shelf and flattened it out (it was 2 inches too narrow floor the area it needed to span). Lots of measuring up and checking and double checking, I jotted it all on the old plastic sheet  Transferred on to the shelf metal, and pilot holes drilled and then checked to the orientation of the bolts, and all good. So a bit more fettling and trimming, and some brace sections made up and riveted in place, and I ended up with...   The bends in the under tray were made via the side of the MOT ramp, a leather hammer, and my weight! As the sheet metal bender we have at work isn't wide enough to fit that sheet in  |
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Bum hats!