Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

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The joys of owning a Fiat part 2.

My initial hunch was right. The crankshaft oil seal was to blame. To change that, you have to remove the fan belt, fan belt pulley, cam belt, cam belt pulley, left motor mount ( which is a hoor of a job) and, of course, the seal itself.

To undo the crankshaft pulley nut, I had to build a tool. Impact did nothing. And I already found another coolant leak and a gearbox leak! The joys of owning a fcuking Fiat. Never again.

They cover the spring and adjustors, it just stops them getting covered in dirt and shite from the roads. I'm running them on 3 starlets and left the preload alone, I just adjusted them by opening the bottom collar and twisting the whole lot. Didn't want to go messing with them too much

Today was scary. I had to remove the cam belt tensioner, put the cam belt aside (after marking it up) and remove the seal, which wasn't easy.

Putting it all back together was nerve shredding, because everything had moved, the cam and the crank were a few teeth out and (mini heart attack!) some of the markings had rubbed off. Luckily I I put three markings in every place instead of one and there was enough information retained to put it all back together perfectly (is it though? We will see first start).

The engine turns over by hand, let's see how she runs.

Changed 4 interior light bulbs in 2 and a half minutes today. Surely I'm a step closer to being a qualified mechanic

Managed to strip the bleed screw threads on my nice 800 euro aluminium rad, after I put 5 litres of coolant into it...

Need to try find some sort of repair kit so I can actually get the rad sealed and get the car running again.

The day was going so well and all.

Did droplinks there, old ones were falling out of it 🤮

Original shocks still doing the business at 250k 🤷‍♂️

Fitted this to the fiesta over the weekend, deadly bit of kit, even if it was a pain in the hole to fit.

Have everything set for the new turbo now, once I manage to get hold of someone to map it.

Short shifter, 40% shorter throw. Had to try push the shifter cables back a bit so they'd fit, which was a challenge.

No idea why Boards decided to rotate the pic 90 degrees

It does that if you take picture with phone in vertical position

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I started tackling the orange peel on my Prelude the other day.

I wet sanded a couple of panels and used a denim cutting pad on them.

It's very time consuming but I've wanted to do it for ages now.

Yeah, that's my pal's one. It's a bit of a strange egg. It's a JDM 5th gen but it's an early one so it has 4th gen wheel hubs, no 4WS and F22 in it.

We sanded it down when he got it and another friend painted it white for him. It looks well.