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Jan 21, 2018 14:56:11 GMT
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I'm just starting to get to the injectors and have already found the culprit doing a black wee wee over the other three innocent injectors. plan for now is to get it all super clean remove all the carbon build up and brace myself for extraction of the injector that has welded itself into the bore : /
any tips on anything-seal wise that is worth renewing when putting it all back together?
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Dec 18, 2017 23:57:05 GMT
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lots of head and butt scratching. occasional reaching for mature crusty boogers. stuff thatyou don't wear vinyl or latex gloves for lol.
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Dec 18, 2017 15:16:45 GMT
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photos that don't show the whole car are especially annoying. parked down the side of a house in very limited space and you(i) just want to go and slap the guy until he can be bothered to get in the car, start it up drive in somewhere that he can take a reasonable photo showing the whole thing in a single pic.
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Dec 16, 2017 23:19:31 GMT
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ok, i told him that he would have the only e34 on the bases....then you show up lol
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Dec 16, 2017 22:54:46 GMT
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do you know a 1995 silver 520 on lakenheath base? i sold to someone last year?
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Dec 16, 2017 18:55:00 GMT
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you did it lol. nice and clean that one : )
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I'm just starting to see the dodgy side to it. disguised rust on the inside bottoms of the doors. good job i bought another welder last week! the exhaust is painting the fence behind quite thoroughly too. it does look good to me already, not sure where to take it but if i start correcting the rust on it i am thinking its going to end up with a utilitarian paint job.
first job on the list is just to get one of the rear sliding doors to lock so i can use it. the key doesnt want to turn and central locking only seems to lock the back door. i have key for the front doors and another for the rears doors. need to rip off the scruffy door panel tomorrow and see whats what. accuator, solenoid or some physical mechanism that needs tinkering.
looking at wheels already. some monoblocs would be nice: )
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id like to think so. i buy 4x4s in the past because they have a reasonable load area and are automatic-my partner wont drive a manual. i had the shogun for a short while but realise that my spacewagon people carrier has more load space so was of no use to me. someone offered me this swap but i know nothing about vitos.
i can only admire it for its appearance for now, as I'm still trying to figure out why the keys have little light bulbs but nio buttons lol
having seen the variation in price online from rusty ones, ones without mot and very well looked after ones, even with the work needed to sort this, i think ive got a good deal : )
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i just gone done swapped me my mitsubishi shogun for one of these things. seems to have a clean enough shell though riddled with 29 million niggling niggly problems. good news is that my partner thinks it needs some better wheels! so far i am seeing signs of leaky, if not stuck injectors, liberal misting of oil or fuel about the top of the engine. abs light seems to be a bit shy or mysteriously doesnt want to show itself with the key in position.. not sure which key does what, but i have 2 and i still cannot get the rear passenger door to lock-so send me your number and ill text you where I'm parked if you want to help yourself to my christmas shopping. always handy to have a van with a non locking door : / discs are thinner than pancakes with lips thicker than mick jagger billowing rear headling belongs in an opium den escapes routes are limited by the absence of essentials such as door handles etc generally grubby inside and some suspicious placing of t4 style vito stickers along the bottom of sliding doors.... and thats as much as ive bothered to notice so far. anyone who'd like to rip me for swapping a solid hunk of 4x4 for a potentially crispy duck...go tell your mama : )
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Nov 15, 2017 19:04:47 GMT
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148000 miles mot 11/18 absolutely solid chassis-ZERO rust in the usual places behind rear wheels. straight body work new exhaust half moon seals recently changed. full service history even! : / £1250 no offers thanks
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used coffee grounds and soap or washing up liquid.
everything else will sting your hands eventually.
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that polytunnel will drip from all over the place onto the thing that you are trying to keep dry. good at keeping the wind and frost off and perfect for automatically watering your plants.
poly tunnels get really humid also. probably the opposite of conditions that youd want for a car.
is there no way you cant just build a cheap lean to against your home?
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Sept 28, 2017 18:18:24 GMT
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the hub cost £117 and i paid the engineer £40 to dril and tap it to fit the old abs ring onto it. now i know what i have to do its not going to be so bad next time. only take 15 minutes or so to get the hub off and the engineer did it the same day. just frustrating at the time when you just cannot find the part that need and when bearing specialists and even mitsubishi cant point you in the right direction. probably time to invest in a pillar drill : ) the offending curse word. ill put the mot on it and see if i get any interest on gumtree innit
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Sept 28, 2017 13:40:45 GMT
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i hate unfinished threads!
so after many months and MOT time approaching i had to sort this.
i went to a localish bearing company to see if they could order the actual bearing in the hub. they couldnt measure it so they put me onto a local engineering firm who would press it out for me, except that they had to batter it out because in this case the hub is actually the outer shell of the bearing. pop the inside shells out from either end of the hub and your left with two rings of huge balls seperated by a flange that is part of the hub.
great design! nothing wasteful about it. not.
so instead ive had to take the ABS ring off the old hub and got this same engineering firm to drill holes in my new hub to take the ring.
20 minutes later and its fitted. 2 minutes driving around and my abs light finally went out.
hurrah!
now there is just my mot to fail on something else lol.
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Jun 22, 2017 22:27:23 GMT
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i think you might be onto something! just looked on ebay and the hub assembly has the holes drilled for the reluctor ring : ) £428 though lol
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Jun 22, 2017 22:23:46 GMT
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The original abs reluctor ring looks like it's held onto the hub with 5 bolts. Any reason why you can't just drill and tap 5 new holes in your new hub, then swap the ring from the old to new ? Hope you get it sorted ! thats the plan but I'm still on the look out for the correct part, hoping as someone has mentioned that an FTO shares the same ring piece : )
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Jun 14, 2017 16:30:22 GMT
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the new hub looks like a disc brake version. I'm not sure which models have discs on the back, whether they are smaller engines or earlier generation spacewagons but this drum fits on this hub perfectly. the bearings must come out of the hub though for someone,well lots of manufactuers, to have have fitted them, which I'm guessing, means the bearing is available somewhere. when i get the bearings out of the old hub ill send them off to simplybearings if i have to and see if they have something in stock or can find the part. the number onthe bearing case does just bring up versions of the whole hub assembly though.
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Jun 13, 2017 23:40:46 GMT
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They look like double row taper bearings with single piece races - if so, they don't need a preload (and in fact you can't adjust the preload without machining bits off it), just secure nut to FT. We use 150lbft on the SS1 front hub (bespoke double row taper bearing) as there's no manufacturers figure. The rears are similar (Mazda 626 bearings) and are 205-245lbft! thanks but thats curse word news lol i watched a youtube where a guy was fitting what seemed to be the same hub to a mitsubishi people carrier, grandis or something and he had set his torque wrench at 90nw(70something pounds only!) and that is how much i did mine to(before i saw your message earlier). can you tell me the specific name of the type of locking nut that has the bit you notch into the gulley on the spindle? ...bet its called a locking nut lol
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Jun 13, 2017 21:26:26 GMT
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i can only imagine that people with lancers and gallants of similar years are going to or have had similar problems as i think they are the same part of some models.
my ABS light is on which means that the sensor isnt reading the ring(as its a different ring) so now, I'm going to knock the old bearings out of the old hub, put new bearings in and install it because it has the correct ring on, or have the new hub drilled to accept the old ring OR look for a sensor that will face the right way to read the ring on the new hub!
car runs and stops alright so it means that the ecu isnt reading the speed off of the hub for anything else so the sensor must run straight to abs unit.
ill update when ive adapted something to work. i have until the MOT is due in september at least!
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