The dog rough estate

[DeeTurbo]

Thanks Mr_fish, I'm glad someones seeing the effort I'm putting in to this car.

I've updated my previous post with photos.

Yesterday it was a bit of a late one, I didn't get home till 10 that night. Girlfriend wanted me home at half six for dinner, I had a pot noodle at work instead.

So then, I bought a new rad on the way to work as the one in the car was a little bent but it still held water, amazingly.

See how bent the condenser is.


and the rad has a bit of a bow but the bottom fins were broken.


The new rad has a hole for a sensor but no HDI's have a sensor there! So I had to find something to plug it.


A couple of things I found.


What I went with.


Next I tried my hand at fixing this.


I got a seagull to shit on it


I then realised I forgot my little grinding wheels so I had to file it down by hand, it took awhile.

After the filing I welded the washer to the cup or half of it.


Not the best of jobs I know.

I left a hair dry on it to help the paint dry.


Next up dropping the engine and box back in.






Box took awhile to get in, was a bit fiddly to get the spines lined up till I thought about turning the engine via the crank pulley, bingo lined up and on it went.

I didn't put the release arm back till later as I have a habit of lifting it by there then knocking the bearing out of position.



With the engine and box back on its mounts I swapped the oil filter to find the threaded bit that the filter screws on to has damaged threads.



Now then where the hell do these go???



They're two m8 nuts with captive washer, they look pretty clean so must be out the way somewhere.

Rad back on.



Slam panel with lights.



Bumper and grill, in high sight I think I could have taken the slam panel and bumper off together?



Back on the deck.


Guess what....

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Glad I didn't put coolant in it. The bastard plug I put in wasn't 1/2 inch tapered but parallel so it wasn't sealing right.



Also the stat housing leaked, badly!



I tried putting the silly O ring on top of the standard slotted stat "gasket" to no avail that ECP give with their stat's.

Looking at the stat housing today, I found that it was warped, what a crap design. The bolts aren't evenly spaced so the long span gets bent up in time and allows it to leak. They're £10.98 from pug (133 6R9) but I found one on ebay new for £11 posted

You can see from my shit pic, one side you can see day light under it.



I also got a tapered plug from a work mate so going to try that tomorrow, fingers crossed. His also given me a parallel one with a larger shoulder on it to try but I don't think that will work unless I put a O ring between the shoulder and rad.

I'll post a first fire video.

http://youtu.be/ImnvxrFuaKI

It still made a funny missing noise on cranking, the one I was hoping to cure with the new pump. I do hope it was just air in the pump or something but I did prime it a few times.

Also the ELM light came up, I tried PP2k on it today but the bastard ODB port has corrosion on some pins that I tried cleaning with contact cleaner before and got it working but it's f*cked again so I'll be cutting that off and replacing with one with better contacts. If it's not one thing it's another with this car, but getting there.

Ooh spot my dodgy connections on the HP pump, it was done just to get the car out my work area to the car park and I'll be doing a neater job with the pipes soon. Airline push fit fittings FTW!



More goodies!
My trailing arm bits also came today.



So I'll have lots of fun next with rebuilding the beam, yay me.