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The "Today I did something to my car" thread
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Got the new trackrods fitted this morning along with getting the tracking done.
Took her for the DOE retest then this afternoon ... and she passed!
Passed mine this evening
. 200kg of lead and water into the back of the van 'fixed' my brake equalizer failure which was my main worry.
Only got my tracking set about a month but changing the TRE doesn't seem to have changed it.
A perished brake hose.
Parts are due in for one more job tomorrow and it should be back on the road.0 -
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Engine all in and plumbed up. Fluids to go in tomorrow and a base map onto the ECU and she'll be ready to fire up. The lads will be breaking it in gently enough running it on mineral oil. It might get a bit of dyno time with the mineral oil too but that call will be made later. It'll be running on 10w60 Millers Nanodrive oil to cope with the massive temps when it's on track
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Since I had the front end in pieces I figured it was as good a time as any to clean up the muddy greasy mess under my bonnet
Will have an after photo tomorrow - tried this evening but sun is now directly behind so its blowing out the image.
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Put new front brake pads on the Xantia this evening, old ones were so bad, the steel hadn't even any meat left :pac: (may be exaggeration)
Strange feeling pain in the hole, having to wind back front caliper pistons, easy as cake to change the pads though,
The car pretty much jacks itself up for you too
Also topped up the lhm as it was a little on the low side.
Ill probably book an nct for the craic and see how she goes,
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Put new front brake pads on the Xantia this evening, old ones were so bad, the steel hadn't even any meat left :pac: (may be exaggeration)
Strange feeling pain in the hole, having to wind back front caliper pistons, easy as cake to change the pads though,
The car pretty much jacks itself up for you too
Also topped up the lhm as it was a little on the low side.
Ill probably book an nct for the craic and see how she goes,
Does the rev counter need to work for the test?
Nope rev counter doesn't have to work0 -
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So the Shogun passed the DOE on the retest on Wednesday :cool: which meant I could relax a little over it all.
When we first bought it there was an A-bar on the front, complete with a pair of spots. Almost a year ago now I took the bar off while it was still straight and worth something, but I held on to the spots. I'd been knocking ideas round in my head since about how I could possibly mount them without the help of an A-bar, so Thursday I dusted off the spots and took them outside to investigate.
First I took off the grille to see if there was any support metal under it (which there was). Being me I had to dig deeper, so off came the headlights and the bumper. It was also the chance I'd been waiting for to figure out exactly how the bumper fitted, and also address the slight damage/rubbing on the front drivers corner. So an hour after I went outside to simply size up the bumper, I was left with this mess ...
I had put masking tape on the leading edge of the bumper to have an idea where spots would mount and not foul on the lower edge of the grille, and once I had it removed I discovered that those handy Japanese designers had thought of everything. There were 2 holes in the metal support bar which were spaced far enough apart that they'd be perfect for fitting spots - no need for messing around with measuring tape and rulers!
So I drilled a pilot hole, enlarged it out to 10mm so that the bolts for the spots would just fit, and bolted them on. It was getting kinda cold at that stage, so since I had no plans to go anywhere the next day I just lobbed everything back on unbolted (hence the huge gaps under the headlights) and left it like this for the night ...
To try keep things neater I was going to have to run the cables through the mesh on the grille. Since a friend was breaking a Vitara I gave him a shout to see if he might have some connectors left on it that I could use. Since I took the lazy way about it (messaged him on facebook :pac: ) I knew I had time to kill. What better then, but to break out the degreaser and clean up the mess thats been under the bonnet since the green-laning over Christmas
A bit of scrubbing and powerhosing later and it was looking a whole lot better
Bumped into the buddy then down the town and made plans to go over to the Vitara today. While it was all apart I was better able to figure out how the front body cladding fit, along with the lower sections of the bumper. I've managed to kinda get the arch re-attached where there was damage to one of the mounting points so that its tighter fitting. Also got the lower mounting points moved forward a bit which should help with the arch rubbing Bumper and headlights were re-attached last night and called it a day.
Finally got out to the Vitara today and cut a plug & socket off one of the front headlamp circuits. The idea is that I'll have a plug in the circuit on the Shogun so if I ever have to take the grille/bumper off then the lights will disconnect easily and I won't need to be pulling wires off the relay. Bit of crimping, soldering & heat-shrink later and the whole lot is fitted up and working.
So at an extremely lazy pace over 3 days I've;
Figured out how the front bumper attaches to the truck
Got the drivers arch sitting back more flush with the wing
Re-positioned the front lower corner of the bumper to fix the rubbing issue
Tightened up the drivers headlamp washer from underneath (a nut had gone walkabout)
Re-fitted the spotlights to the front and got them working on the high-beam (didn't bother connecting the 4 led's in each lamp to the park lights since 1 of the 8 was broken and I haven't the materials to fix it)0 -
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Plenty of petigree in these machines not just an economy wagon!
Shlow down there tommy!
would like to see what a 2.0t petrol would produce plenty of modern 2.0td's offering 150bhp+ i'd not be too hasty to call it pedigree.
that said i can't put your car down, it does look lovely and i fully understand your arguement about the "m" badges. unlike rocky. 0 -
Toyotafanboi wrote: »Shlow down there tommy!
would like to see what a 2.0t petrol would produce plenty of modern 2.0td's offering 150bhp+ i'd not be too hasty to call it pedigree.
that said i can't put your car down, it does look lovely and i fully understand your arguement about the "m" badges. unlike rocky.
The 320i petrol of 2008 has a puny 168bhp!:):) Ive driven an auto one, Nowhere near as lively as the diesel I have to say. Thanks about the first compliment I've had on here though!0 -
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The 320i petrol of 2008 has a puny 168bhp!:):) Ive driven an auto one, Nowhere near as lively as the diesel I have to say. Thanks about the first compliment I've had on here though!
the 320i is N/A though. (i think)
Put a few more pictures up of the car we're not usually this bitchy :pac: 0 -
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