Another body off!
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Yes the bottom hose does have 90 degree bend.
had quite a constructive day, got the rad and oil cooler fitted, the oil hoses just fit around the offside so I've halved the amount of hose, top and bottom rad hoses fitted along with the header tank.
PAS pump and relay wired up to the alternator warning lamp output so the pump should be running only when the alternator is charging.
Spent best part of two hours with PAS fluid running down my arm fixing a leak, eventually resolved by doubling up the copper washers on the HP input banjo, apparently the new valve block tapping is not parallel to its external face Grrrrrr...
had quite a constructive day, got the rad and oil cooler fitted, the oil hoses just fit around the offside so I've halved the amount of hose, top and bottom rad hoses fitted along with the header tank.
PAS pump and relay wired up to the alternator warning lamp output so the pump should be running only when the alternator is charging.
Spent best part of two hours with PAS fluid running down my arm fixing a leak, eventually resolved by doubling up the copper washers on the HP input banjo, apparently the new valve block tapping is not parallel to its external face Grrrrrr...
Well the beeswax worked and the new part released from the mould with a little persuasion
I then found a use for the multiple Domino's pizza flyers that litter my doormat every week, it's quite a thick paper and ideal for making templates !
A bit of trimming with the angry grinder later we have a nice new part ready to bond in
Bonded in with a couple of layers matting - the area was ground back / roughened with a flapper disk first.
Quite a lot of cutting, welding, trail fitting (repeat as appropriate) later we have a new exhaust rear section
Just needs a mounting making up to the diff cradle and some heatmat sticking inside the new box, oh and boot trim modifying to fit...
I then found a use for the multiple Domino's pizza flyers that litter my doormat every week, it's quite a thick paper and ideal for making templates !
A bit of trimming with the angry grinder later we have a nice new part ready to bond in
Bonded in with a couple of layers matting - the area was ground back / roughened with a flapper disk first.
Quite a lot of cutting, welding, trail fitting (repeat as appropriate) later we have a new exhaust rear section
Just needs a mounting making up to the diff cradle and some heatmat sticking inside the new box, oh and boot trim modifying to fit...
we had a wander around u-pull-it yesterday looking for a suitable gear lever boot as the original was mainly holes joined by frilly bits of rubber. As most euroboxes have the complete gear change remote inside the car they only have the trim to cover them. We found a BMW has a small boot but it attaches around the transmission tunnel so you would need to chop a lump of tunnel out. Eventually found the below on a fiesta which looks like it can be made to fit.
But my gear lever seems to have been modified, I guess to get the stick in the middle of the hole, but now for some reason the modified lever is too far back so it won't go into 2nd or 4th. Is this normal or a bodge to cure another problem?
Either way looks like it's not quite time to hang up the welding mask...
But my gear lever seems to have been modified, I guess to get the stick in the middle of the hole, but now for some reason the modified lever is too far back so it won't go into 2nd or 4th. Is this normal or a bodge to cure another problem?
Either way looks like it's not quite time to hang up the welding mask...
B@man said:
we had a wander around u-pull-it yesterday looking for a suitable gear lever boot as the original was mainly holes joined by frilly bits of rubber. As most euroboxes have the complete gear change remote inside the car they only have the trim to cover them. We found a BMW has a small boot but it attaches around the transmission tunnel so you would need to chop a lump of tunnel out. Eventually found the below on a fiesta which looks like it can be made to fit.
But my gear lever seems to have been modified, I guess to get the stick in the middle of the hole, but now for some reason the modified lever is too far back so it won't go into 2nd or 4th. Is this normal or a bodge to cure another problem?
Either way looks like it's not quite time to hang up the welding mask...
Ah of course (ref. the exhaust) - I was forgetting it's a 400SE.But my gear lever seems to have been modified, I guess to get the stick in the middle of the hole, but now for some reason the modified lever is too far back so it won't go into 2nd or 4th. Is this normal or a bodge to cure another problem?
Either way looks like it's not quite time to hang up the welding mask...
IIRC the boot used on mine is/was from a Sierra - the bellows part of it is off-centre front to back as on the Sierra it was used one way around for the petrol engine and the other way for the diesel (it's marked as such).
The chopped gearlever is 'standard' - even the 280i's had theirs bodgficated in the same manner as I recall.
B@man said:
Not that either, just checked pictures in the bible and they show the same cranked gear lever - puzzled
Hmm, I'm sure mine is cranked so it offsets to the right and forward, yours looks like it's heading to the right rear. I know the stick itself is bonded to the ball assembly at the bottom via a rubber bush, it doesn't just need turning 180 degrees or twisting round on the bush, does it? I guess if it was 180 degrees it'd be to the left and forward but maybe that's what it needs.
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