funkidiva said:
Nice wheels!! good luck with doing her up......what do you plan on doing to her??
Not much modding at the mo, more getting it back up and running!
On sunday I had a look at the cooling system and the coolant was all gunked up! it was like a brown paste rather than a pink liquid! lol.
Anyhow, flushed out the coolant and the checked all the pipes etc. there was sludge in the pipes too so flushed all that out with coolant and water etc. The radiator was rusting all over the place and it looks like there was a coolant leak on the inlet of the radiator, so bought a new one of those too.
Next, Flushed out all the oil and changed oil filter. Filled her up with 5l of oil, but I dont know how much goes in there?? anyone know how many litres to put in?? at the mo its on a sloping driveway so cant use the dipstick to check properly yet!
Started her up and she ran fine. got the coolant flowing to clean out the insides and thats gonna need flushing again.
Just finished changing the spark plugs and they were a PITA to replace!!! Im assuming its the exhaust manifold that goes over the engine and towards the back? had to take God knows how many screws out to shift that slightly to get at the spark plugs.
Apart from that, changed the air filter and pollen filter, Took out the old one and it was pitch black!!! so that deffo needed changing!
Thats where im at so far, just about to go out and flush the Coolant one more time and put on the new radiator.
Tomorrow I'll change the gearbox oil and get some new stuff in there. The Brake fluid will probably be next with a full set of front and back brake pads and disks.
I think that should've sorted the main problems then. Ill wait until I've done that then give the whole thing a proper clean too, engine bay included.
Also looking for some new headlights too cos some of the clips have broken off/aren't working properly.
So this is what it looks like at the mo on my drive:
This is one with the whole of the front end stripped:
and heres the pollen filters!! can you tell which one is new?!?!:
Sorry bout the long post!!
