Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Replaced clutch and DMF on herselfs mark4 mondeo last week.(1.8tdci) Did it over 2 days as minding kids aswell, don’t think I’d have managed it in a day anyway.!! Fair bit of work in it as front subframe has to come down first. 6 speed box was way heavier than anything I’d done before, I was glad I had a chainblock on it.
A lift would have made this job lots easier.
Anyway car has just done 1000k since(she drives a lot!!) and it’s reallly smoothened the ride. DMF was rattling like hell in it if you didn’t dip the clutch starting for last few months and it was kicking and hunting a bit if u got caught in the wrong gear. All good now though

I've been busy sorting niggly little bits on the Z... Here's some of the ones I've captured

At the flywheel is a bolt that hasn't enough room to come out (near the oil filter). It needs to be spaced properly for a manual configuration (I got the sandwich plate far too late into the swap!) so I had to space the bolt... By cutting slots out of a pair of washers and fitting them. Done!


Automatics come with a relay that allows the car to work only when in park/neutral. Since we don't have an auto anymore... Bypass it



Shout out to kilianmanning for helping me keep my sanity with the seized slave cylinder! As we wanted the car to be up and running he suggested take it off and clean it. Worked a treat :cool:




Finally, the gear lever mount was cut at the mounting point and the collar missing. So the solution was simple: Use a banjo from the LDA of an XUD pump, glue it to a lump of rubber from some dried up windscreen bond, 2 small pieces of a 500SE roof drilling one and some cable ties also needed. Job done





Z33 wheels that were on my C220 are now on the 300ZX, but was pitch black when I changed wheels...

I'll have more Z fun, in it's own build thread. Next to sort is the dukes of hazzard passenger door

Finally seemed to have fixed my blower issue after replacing the FSU with a Genuine Part, seems the Hella part I got was faulty.



Annoyingly this probably means my old motor was OK and it's actually better than the one I replaced it with so I'll probably be taking the dash apart again :pac:

Ouch, will a weld sort it?

passatman86 wrote: »

and the world of nuts raisins pips and seeds not sure if a man owned the car or a budgie

You must have picked it up cheep so!:D

Why is there no mud flaps? It wouldn't be half as dirty if you had some on there.

They don't really do much for the dirt that's a result of spray, it's more the heavy stuff they stop being fired up. I don't have them on my car, but anyone that has them, they find them a nuisance, they only scrape off the road if you go into a hollow in the road, or have people in the back...

Mine do (did)

breadbin wrote: »

Well today I replaced my drivers rear caliper. It's a first for me and to be honest I was a little scared but it all went well.

About a year ago the brakes started sticking and basically within the year I had all of them cleaned but not properly serviced. Then this rear drivers one started again so I said feck it and got 2 calipers from Toyota and pads. I'm sure the other one needs doing too and I'll do the fronts after Christmas.

The state of the yoke when I took it off. There was no seal on the piston. I'll try get a pic. It's not that long since the mechanic cleaned this one but Christ it looks bad. The pads were fairly worn too. Piston was sticking right out. I'm sure if the outer seal was missing then the square one was well messed up.

First time for me to bleed the brakes too but that went well. I was half expecting the brake fluid to shoot out of the cable when I was changing the caliper but it was fine. Dripped a bit but not much. I had the new one ready to put on so all good.

Well done breadbin, like yourself I'm new enough to the whole D.I.Y. mechanics as well. But there are alot of people in this forum that are willing to provide advice on different tasks which is great. I also find that a job isn't as bad, if you research it well. Anyway keep up the good work.

breadbin wrote: »

Well I reckon it's just confidence with me or lack of. My dad was always terrified to do any work on his car. None of my mates either so I never got into it. Better late than never. You get a buzz off it too;)

That's exactly the same as me. it's extremely satisfying..

Focus 1.4 was hesitating at lights , dangerous at roundabouts and accelerating at any speed and in any gear.Once at speed it was fine.Everybody said plugs, coil pack, fuel filter, clutch.

So after a few hours and coffees on the www.

Bought carb cleaner , took throttle body off and cleaned it to fook.The butterfly valve was caked in a build up of carbon and whatnot and was sticking slightly.
Cleaned pcv valve
Cleaned idle control valve

Drives like a new car.I fookin danced in the driveway such a cheap fix sorted it.:pac:

So,

Changed oil, filters, fuel filter, plugs, 2 drop links , two tie rods, 2 rear anti roll bar bushes.

Then a headlight blew. FFS.:rolleyes:

It's only a 500 quid car but I don't know whether I feel more pride in me or the car !

JohnBoy26 wrote:

Genuine ones usually don't.

Both do, been in a few cars with genuine ones and they scrape, they don't be long getting tatty at the bottom either.

Top Dog wrote: »

No photos since work was done in the dark, but this evening I installed a dash cam.

Fingers crossed I'll never need to share footage!

Does it connect to the battery somehow?

Top Dog wrote: »

Yeah. You can just use what comes with the camera and plug it into a cigarette lighter, or in my case I bought the hardwire kit which mean's its connected permanently and my cigarette lighter is still useable for phone charging.

That's the job and no more wires, well visible anyway!