Recent content by cmal1001

thats what i will do is have to drive it about, what about the foam underneath will that dry without taking the carpet out?

also i should post a fair warning to any DIYers who plan on pulling the rad hose from underneath the car to flush coolant. WEAR EYE PROTECTION or if you have nimble hands pull it from the engine bay above. The coolant will travel along the lip of the bumper and get ya. I ended up with rusty...

all went well wit the matrix replacement, besides the top pipe pushing the seal inside the matrix and leaking coolant all over drivers footwell, eventually i just greased the seals and it slid in like a wet dream. I now have a wet nightmare on my carpets though, fresh g12, i managed to soak up...

true! you learn something new every time you work on the car. My soldering is obviously top notch ;) everything works beautifully ! Next job, rear parking sensors

stupid me i forgot to put the pink thing and when i connected to door it pushed two of the pins out

I got one of the rocketwires kits to repair the drivers door harness. i actually ended up removing the complete harness and just soldering the new wires on instead of using those rubbish butt splice connectors. Repair went well as i thought, i soldered all the wires to now to avoid further...

is the oil light or eml light on the dash? are you loosing oil? could be a leak or worse could be the hex drive in the oil pump has gone.

have decided to just replace the matrix, question my friend in a struggle to get the matrix hoses off they got a bit damaged so they are back on the pipes at the bulkhead with various jubilee clips and no leaks, my initial idea was to bypass the matrix (remove old matrix) and flush coolant so...

i'll give the whole system a good flush and fill slowly and bleed see if that solves it if not new matrix if that dont fix it then "insurance job" hahaha

well i am waiting for some g12+ coming and i am going to flush the entire cooling system with some holts speedflush just to see if there is any remaining blockages and i will be sure to bleed it thoroughly, would it help if i maybe stood the reservoir up on its end so its all flowing down?

still wierd though how its relatively warm when the cars warming up but when it gets to 90 its cold

hi buddy i did this when i refitted the matrix, should i do this with pressure cap on or off the coolant reservoir?

Hello all so i have been having problems with heat inside the cab for a while now, i originally put it down to a blocked heater core, so the matrix was removed and cleaned and alot of rubbish came out, put back in and system bled and hey presto had really good heat for a while but now its back...

looking to paint the chrome surround on the front grille black, any easy way to do it without taking bumper off?

yeah i had thought about taking it off and reconditioning it but a friend of mine had one spare and it was like 30 quid, took ten minutes to swap over and another 10 minutes to bleed the brakes, . Timing belt next week! i think im just going to have to give this old girl my card and pin number...