10-02-2016, 06:19 PM
I re-insured and taxed this at the end of January, and have been driving it a bit. It goes really well. I've got a few more updates planned soon I hope.
Before taxing and re-insuring I swapped engine looms to see if that was causing my rev-counter issues but this had no effect. Whilst I was there I did the usual painting up of the inlet manifold & fuel rail, and also painted the slam panel and tow-hook whilst I had the front bumper off looking at the loom along there, which I now suspect to be the problem as it looks like it has a fair bit of heatshrink on a lot of the wires.
I had one side welded but a small hole has appeared on the other side of the car behind the front wheel arch where they all go. I will be attempting to repair this myself as I'm not convinced by the previous repair on the other side. There's also a bit of surface rust elsewhere that I'd like to grind down and treat, hopefully that will be sufficient.
Anyway, right after getting it on the road the bonnet release cable snapped. With a friend at work we managed to fit a new, genuine one. It appears that the ph.1 cable has been superceded by a new part number which replaces both halves of the cable but doesn't include the necessary clip for the slam panel s we had to do a bit of bodgery at the end to get it to work correctly.
No pictures really as my phone camera has totally given up and I'm certainly not allowed to take any at work either. New phone soon so pictures should be following in future updates.
Before taxing and re-insuring I swapped engine looms to see if that was causing my rev-counter issues but this had no effect. Whilst I was there I did the usual painting up of the inlet manifold & fuel rail, and also painted the slam panel and tow-hook whilst I had the front bumper off looking at the loom along there, which I now suspect to be the problem as it looks like it has a fair bit of heatshrink on a lot of the wires.
I had one side welded but a small hole has appeared on the other side of the car behind the front wheel arch where they all go. I will be attempting to repair this myself as I'm not convinced by the previous repair on the other side. There's also a bit of surface rust elsewhere that I'd like to grind down and treat, hopefully that will be sufficient.
Anyway, right after getting it on the road the bonnet release cable snapped. With a friend at work we managed to fit a new, genuine one. It appears that the ph.1 cable has been superceded by a new part number which replaces both halves of the cable but doesn't include the necessary clip for the slam panel s we had to do a bit of bodgery at the end to get it to work correctly.
No pictures really as my phone camera has totally given up and I'm certainly not allowed to take any at work either. New phone soon so pictures should be following in future updates.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted above as fact.
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