Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

joujoujou · 27-05-2018 4:43pm

At last! At last weather let me do what I wanted to from the very beginning of the time I have the car.

Using this:

And starting from this:

Preparations:

After step 1:

And finally:

Not really a jawdropping effect, but well, much better than before.

Esel · 27-05-2018 7:20pm

Did you do all that masking just for the lights?

punisher5112 · 27-05-2018 7:26pm

Looks like someone or something was bludgeoned to death on the engine bay....

fancy pigeon · 28-05-2018 11:06am

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Z: trying to chase a fuelling issue, changed the fuel filter from one for a Mercedes. Didn't cure it though!

It also has shat the input and output seals on the gearbox... For another day that job!

One at a time!

I spent some spare time at the car, first checking the injectors (common Z failure point)

Each injector had layers of corrosion, however this wasn't the issue as they all checked out with a multimeter once cleaned up (access to the rear 2 was... fun)

Next, made sure the oxy sensors were working, unplugging and unplugging. Vacuum lines next (replaced these as they were crumbling away), the FPR then swapped the ECU. Still no joy!

Worked my way to the front, tried the air mass meter. When disconnected the engine idled flawlessly, reving cleanly to 2.5k rpm. Bingo!

A replacement was swiftly acquired

Somehow, I don't think this was the original gasket supplied with the filter

Plumbed in, car is back to normal :cool:

Gearbox: an initial visual looked like the rear seal was gone, I will change this first and see if this cures it

Foxhole Norman · 28-05-2018 1:53pm

Replaced my rear discs and pads today, Textar Discs and Pads were on the back, now replaced with Pagid Discs, Pads and Wear Sensor. Got the whole lot, discs, pads, wear sensor, piston rewind tool, brake cleaner and WD40 all for about €100, who says BMW's are expensive to service :pac:

Old squeaky setup

All fresh and new

Fingers always get in the way :pac:

joujoujou · 28-05-2018 3:15pm

Esel wrote: »

Did you do all that masking just for the lights?

Better safe than sorry, especially here in The Windy Wesht.

Another visual thingy, just got it from mr. postman.

Old one:

And new one:

Quite tricky, as original one was held by a number of staples. My own, home grade stapler would definately break straight away, so dug out a roll of 100mph tape off the shed and used it instead. Holds the whole thing pretty well.

Alanstrainor · 28-05-2018 9:21pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Well, fair play to Mick's garage who sent my parts out to me this afternoon! Started taking things apart this morning. Jacked the car up, sussed out what bolts to remove and got to it. It did take me a little while to get the old pump out as the high pressure return line was well secured. Using a curtain pole to get my law of the lever on, I managed to break it free.

New pump is now on and plumbed. I started removing the expansion tank but one of the lines coming out of it is not looking too good. I'm tempted to just button the old one back together and just leave it for now. The ultimate goal here is to get it through the NCT, I can worry about the rest after.

My only other hurdle is the old pulley. I have a new one ordered but it hasn't arrived. It is plastic and is welded to the old pump, just due to age and heat from the engine. I have it sitting in a pool of WD-40 to see if it will come free as I might be forced to use the old one.

A good afternoons work.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

The struggle is real. Hopefully you get sorted within the retest period!

NCT passed this evening! Huzzah! The test drive was the drive to the Ballymun NCT test centre! Woohoo!

So, new pump in, new fluid and all appears to be leak free. The only thing is the old pulley which I was able to remove from the old pump shaft after it's bath in wd-40 and a few light taps with a rubber mallet. Delighted. There might be a bit of work still to do, but at least I have the NCT for the next year.

This was my 6th NCT with this car, and the most difficult by far!

honda boi · 28-05-2018 10:07pm

Noticed something up with the car for the past day or 2.
Had a look around and saw what looked like my tyre had become pregnant

Blessed I spotted it now.
Tyre was brand new only 3 weeks ago!!!
Must of hit a pothole or something

eringobragh · 28-05-2018 11:08pm

Little 18th Birthday present for the MR2, looking a little worse for wear

Before

All the way from the land of The Rising Sun

Mod edit: Personal info on show

After

Esel · 29-05-2018 2:05am

Way TMI on that plastic pic!

Alanstrainor · 30-05-2018 11:12am

Power steering pulley has arrived, took longer than I thought. I think I'll try and fit it this evening. Although I'm a bit fed up of working on the bloody thing at this stage. It won't take long though, and it's better than having the old pulley implode on the motorway.

And all is good with the steering so far. It actually feels lighter, not a huge amount but it is noticeable. My car has always had a groan when turning at low speeds, which is now gone. Happy days.

When I was out in the car last night, I also noticed that the NCT lads had managed to fully break my driver window switch. To be fair, it was cracked and I had been extra careful not to break it fully. I actually have new ones sitting in the garage that I'll pop in this evening.

honda boi · 30-05-2018 2:11pm

Got the pregnant tyre replaced!!!
No more stupid biscuit wheel!!!

breadbin · 30-05-2018 2:32pm

eringobragh wrote: »

Little 18th Birthday present for the MR2, looking a little worse for wear

Before

All the way from the land of The Rising Sun

After

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Any pics of the car? An MR2 could be on my bucket list!

Toyotafanboi · 01-06-2018 9:12pm

Not the most exciting pics tbh and I didn't do the work either. I've spent far more money than I've wanted to on the Hondas brakes recently.

In fairness I've put just under 60,000kms on it now since I got it and the only non standard thing I've spent money on has been a coil spring that the tip of a coil had broken off.

I had an ABS warning light intermittently that I was ignoring, I was also blissfully ignoring a very soft brake pedal, then after that I started ignoring a stuck calliper until that went metal to metal so I bit the bullet.

New rear dust shield
New nearside rear ABS sensor
New rear pads and discs
New front pads and discs
New offside front calliper
New brake fluid

It's like a new car, not dragging a wheel, no noise, no lights on the dash and the pedal is rock solid. I wish I had pics of the old stuff it was real hall of shame material. The discs were red rotten, i'd say less than 50% of the contact surface was being used.

Dust shield: €35 from Honda
ABS sensor: €60 for Blueprint the cheapest I could find
Front and rear pads and discs: €165 all Delphi
Front calliper: €85 for a refurbed exchange unit

Just under €350 all done so not too bad really.

Viola!

Rears:

Fronts:

Toyotafanboi · 02-06-2018 8:13pm

I have put about 200kms on the new brakes, I was admiring the car this evening, as you do :pac: noticed the wheels have a nice coating of brake dust on them. I've never had that with this car before, I could literally do 1000kms in a week and there's be virtually none. I'm sure this has a little to do with the brand of pads and them bedding in but I'd say it has a lot to do with the brakes actually working again too :pac:

joujoujou · 02-06-2018 9:53pm

Had the very same mod in my red 'rolla, liked it, so decided to do the same in E12.

Tutorials on the web showing permanently soldered bulbs and stuff like that.

Nah, decided to go my own route.

Here's starting point - tail light clusters and bulb holders:

Additional items - corolla E11 loom and slightly damaged light cluster:

Light cluster cut to make a template:

5 attachment per post limit, so more on the way.

joujoujou · 02-06-2018 10:00pm

Some preparations:

In addition, to avoid having shaved plastic in the cluster, decided not to go drill/file, but fire and knife instead:

Driver's side cut:

And it fits!

Passenger's side cut as well:

To be continued...

joujoujou · 02-06-2018 10:13pm

And it fits too!

BTW, knife's junk now, thankfully I have replacement blades.

Time to look after bulb holders:

Now, cut and soldered:

Final result. Parking lights, parking + brake, parking + fog, parking + brake + fog.

Managed to get very similar strength of light, despite different sizes of parking vs. fog compartments - good old American bulbs (P27/8W) in parking/brake compartments and standard P21/5W in foglight compartments.

THE END

SeaFields · 03-06-2018 12:18pm

Did the fuel filter on my Honda Accord cdti this morning. Took about 45 minutes. 30 minutes of that trying to get the old one out! it's awkward as fook but simple job really if that makes sense.

breadbin · 03-06-2018 2:04pm

joujoujou wrote: »

And it fits too!

BTW, knife's junk now, thankfully I have replacement blades.

Time to look after bulb holders:

Now, cut and soldered:

Final result. Parking lights, parking + brake, parking + fog, parking + brake + fog.

Managed to get very similar strength of light, despite different sizes of parking vs. fog compartments - good old American bulbs (P27/8W) in parking/brake compartments and standard P21/5W in foglight compartments.

THE END

I'm jealous of your paint! Mine has gone to **** and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Black_Knight · 03-06-2018 11:43pm

breadbin wrote: »

I'm jealous of your paint! Mine has gone to **** and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Find a red bonnet at a scrapyard imo

CJhaughey · 04-06-2018 5:38am

SeaFields wrote: »

Did the fuel filter on my Honda Accord cdti this morning. Took about 45 minutes. 30 minutes of that trying to get the old one out! it's awkward as fook but simple job really if that makes sense.

First time I did it, it took me an hour, last time was about 30 mins if even that.
Those filters are pricey from Honda but I have heard too many stories about spurious filters giving problems to even contemplate anything else.

joujoujou · 04-06-2018 8:52am

Black_Knight wrote: »

Find a red bonnet at a scrapyard imo

Won't be easy to find one in better condition, I'm afraid.

zurbfoundation · 04-06-2018 9:00am

CJhaughey wrote: »

First time I did it, it took me an hour, last time was about 30 mins if even that.
Those filters are pricey from Honda but I have heard too many stories about spurious filters giving problems to even contemplate anything else.

Yes needs to be genuine / took me hours to change back when I had that car. Such an awkward job

richardsheil · 04-06-2018 12:15pm

zurbfoundation wrote: »

Yes needs to be genuine / took me hours to change back when I had that car. Such an awkward job

NO it doesn't- presuming you are talking Accord ictdi from around 2005.
The probem with the spurious ones is that the inlet and outlet are reversed. Once you don't just pop the hoses on per the old ones and actually look at flow direction they work fine.
I discovered this the hard way. Car would not give power for more than a few seconds and I discovered that I was trying to send the fuel the wrong way through the filter.
So just mark outlet and inlet pipes prior to changing

SeaFields · 04-06-2018 5:05pm

Re the Honda accord filter I don't see why one would bother with a non genuine part. The Bosch filter that's considered the proper one costs about 20 quid online and it's changed about every third service. The guys on typeaccord have some horror stories of trying anything else.

Regarding the awkwardness of it, there is a nut out of sight that adds to the job. Its behind the filter housing and holds the filter in place. I took that off and left it off. Makes swapping them a good bit easier.

blackbox · 04-06-2018 6:42pm

Changed the transmission fluid in my RX400h today. 160k km. Simple enough job. Used the Lidl oil pump to refill it. Only genuine ATF WS fluid should be used in the CVT.

Spent more time getting organised and clearing up than actually doing the job.

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pablo128 · 05-06-2018 7:40pm

breadbin wrote: »

I'm jealous of your paint! Mine has gone to **** and I'm not sure what to do about it.

A few years ago Toyota recalled all red Avensises and resprayed them due to laquer peel. I wonder is there a way to look up if it's under a recall?

MetzgerMeister · 06-06-2018 10:26am

Mrs MM has a wine 2005 Avensis with that lacquer peel occurring all over it. Where would I find out if it's involved in a recall?

breadbin · 06-06-2018 10:58am

pablo128 wrote: »

A few years ago Toyota recalled all red Avensises and resprayed them due to laquer peel. I wonder is there a way to look up if it's under a recall?

Unfortunately not corollas! I spent ages trying find out. It's just the Avensis and Auris that are recalled due to lacquer. I guess there are so many Corollas it would bankrupt them!

Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

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