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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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Not today because today is Sunday and shall be driving it and trying to find out what I screwed up through my amateur mechanic endeavors. The pics here are over the last two weeks as I was waiting for parts, machining etc. I got the valve covers back on Wednesday evening around 5:30pm. Delighted with the job and should be good for life. From receiving them back to actually driving it too approx 12 hours of labour. There is nothing quick about working on these, spaces are tiny. You can do something then find something should have been routed a different way so take it back off,rinse and repeat etc.
Anywhere here is a snippet of what has happened.
Ordered parts from Merc and they arrived, €700 doesn't get a lot of OEM stuff. I buy OEM for critical parts, next level would be OEM supplier and preferably made in Europe. Cosmetic items will be wherever value is to be found.
Collected diamond cut wheels and ceramic coated them as Rim Solutions did a fantastic job so figured as they will never be this clean again it was worth the effort. Time will tell. These have been installed with lug bolts and chinas finest mercedes center caps. I wasn't paying 70-80 for OEM plastic which is purely cosmetic.
Installed new oil separtor, cleaned and washed oil contaminated pipework, airboxes etc. Installed new and old. Still awaiting one vlave so had to clean the high load check valve and will install new one when it arrives.
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So with that done it was onto cleaning the valve cover gasket seats and while painstaking it did allow me to appreciate the fact that the thread repair as now be doen right and when in there again I won't have to worry about stripped threads.
Much coffee was drank and nourishmnet was supplied via Rich Tea and Ginger nut biscuits in getting back to this stage.
All the ducting, pipework, airboxes were washed cleaned and dried along with new air filters installed before reassembly.
With intercoolers back on they had to be filled and bleed, apparently this can be problematic so I had ordered a €20 vacuum bleed or air lift kit for charging the system. It was a doddle to use and only took a few mins. I will monitor it and see how teh level stays. It was topped off with DI as I didn't drain it but if all is well I will do a full flush and update the pump to the newer better Bosch model if it isn't alreday fitted.
All back together, I ran a scan before starting. No errors. It fired up on the button and scanned again. All was looking good so time to pay teh test drive fee of €511 to get on the road.
Back from testing and no check engine lights and another scan shows all is well. No evidence of misfires which is really good news. I was worried that the arcing may have damaged the coil pack so I may have caught it just in time. I need a runway / private road or maybe a post covid road trip to an autobahn to truly let it strecth its legs. There is no way to do it here.
Here is a hot start vid before I took it home for the weekend. The starter sound is normal for the V12 and its very unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpiN87ejoGk
The crap plastic plates got binned and pressed metal fitted to clean it up. Now the process of building the real to do list can begin.
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I did an oil change yesterday, a very normal job but perhaps noteworthy because the filter is a cannister type (maybe common but not to me) and the oil used, Liqui Moly mos2 which contains molybdenum sulphide, whatever that is, but it makes the oil an unusual gray colour.
Filter
Where it goes, from under the car
The oil
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Minor one this time.
Old centre caps started to look tired, additionally, after a few wet days showing sort of greenish particles on the surface. I am not really a big fan of chrome looking things on the car, so looked for something else. Found Aygo centre caps, just a fiver each from a dealer! Dirt cheap! :eek:
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Changed the xenon's the other day, what a pig of a job. The clip holding the bulb in place was by far the worse part.
The driver's side seems to be potinting a bit more to the ground and its quite noticable when looking at it making the passenger side seem brighter. Guessing that's just a characteristic of xenon's so as not to blind on-coming driver's ?
Also noticed this oil leak the other day coming from what I believe is the boost pipe. Not sure if it's serious or not.
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Hello! I have been a busy lad, mostly with other peoples vehicles keeping up with modern day IT demands. While you were bundled up in lockdown I was flat out on the beautifully quiet roads keeping people working remotely, enjoying the 607 munching up the miles as it should!
Below is something that was worked on over a few Saturdays when I had the time, with much appreciated help from my father and kilianmanning
Situation: timing chain on work van snapped on the motorway, high enough rpm. Circumstances changed where it needed to be repaired instead of being pensioned off to my garden the scrapyard
2 options:
Replacement engine (lazy/easy way)
Inspect and rebuild top end (am I arsed enough to do it way)
Less yap, more pictures...
I opted for the lazy way. Picked up a donor car with loose change, tore its soul out in about 2 hours, had a great laugh destroying the interior
Strip the loom/ancillaries/gearbox/chain cover. The chain was done prior but was showing signs of stretching
Out with this bad boy for the left handed crank bolt and put so much power through it rang the adapter in half, predictably (stick your lefty loosey nonsense up your posterior!)
Lock the cam, mark your crank, off with the chain and clean behind it
Note: I eventually figured the timing out myself, using bits of another 1.3 engine from an Opel I had lying about. Put everything back together loosely before you put on the tensioner
New chain kit was approx £52
Engine out from the van
And side by side. You can see what's about to happen...
And this is where my lazy idea went out the window
Euro 4 and euro 5 have different heads, kind of expected and just as irritating. Engine had to come out anyway to complete other bits.
Plan B: strip the other engine, remove it's head and inspect the damage
6 rockers broke/stressed, 10 lifters seized solid!
One of the valves didn't pass the sound test. Off with it's head
Inspecting the pistons for damage
The state of the chain, sh*t in 3 places... Bicycles have stronger ones FFS
Cleaned up the block where required
With bits of the Opel engine (that passed inspection) the head was reassembled and tested in situ
Reassembled
Ready to install
Put everything back together and initial crank... Nothing. HP pump failed. Pull one out of thin air, cough cough into life. Connect the MAF and everything else away it went, running like a clock and sounding better than before. I can't show you the van as it's branded but if you want I'll take a vid of it running with questionable censoring
Shakedown test, it scuttered oil everywhere... Source: vacuum pump. Rip it off, clean it up, install and clean the rest of the oil as best I can.
Drove it up to Dublin that night, not a bother to it, more power than before and quieter bar the injectors
Van is now back in daily service. Total cost for parts was almost €200 and 4 Saturdays spent, could have been a lot faster only I'm a very fussy c*nt at times
If you want to know how to time these engines I'll show you because no one else will
And if you're wondering about the Fiesta, that's my radio!0 -
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