Give me a random task to do....
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Anything else lads?Set your base idle and timing up, and read off any fault codes.
Rod your hood drain holes and sill drain holes.
Bleed the brakes and clutch. Reset the clutch pedal lash.
Regrease your caliper sliders.
Polish your plastic back window.
Rain-x all the glass.
Straighten wonky headlight lids.
Pull your seats out and clean out all the biscuits and ginsters from underneat.
Clean your Air filter.
Check your plugs and gap them.
etc etc ad infinitum
Rod your hood drain holes and sill drain holes.
Bleed the brakes and clutch. Reset the clutch pedal lash.
Regrease your caliper sliders.
Polish your plastic back window.
Rain-x all the glass.
Straighten wonky headlight lids.
Pull your seats out and clean out all the biscuits and ginsters from underneat.
Clean your Air filter.
Check your plugs and gap them.
etc etc ad infinitum
Set your base idle and timing up, and read off any fault codes......How?
Rod your hood drain holes and sill drain holes......................Where on earth are these?
Bleed the brakes and clutch. Reset the clutch pedal lash............Clueless as to how
Regrease your caliper sliders.......................................Check!
Polish your plastic back window. ...................................Check!
Rain-x all the glass................................................Check! Pretty much (auto glym)
Straighten wonky headlight lids.....................................Check!
Pull your seats out and clean out all the biscuits
and ginsters from underneath.........................................Got a pro carpet cleaner this weekend
Clean your Air filter................................................Brand new
Check your plugs and gap them........................................Brand new, apparently I don't need to gap them *shrugs*
Rod your hood drain holes and sill drain holes......................Where on earth are these?
Bleed the brakes and clutch. Reset the clutch pedal lash............Clueless as to how
Regrease your caliper sliders.......................................Check!
Polish your plastic back window. ...................................Check!
Rain-x all the glass................................................Check! Pretty much (auto glym)
Straighten wonky headlight lids.....................................Check!
Pull your seats out and clean out all the biscuits
and ginsters from underneath.........................................Got a pro carpet cleaner this weekend
Clean your Air filter................................................Brand new
Check your plugs and gap them........................................Brand new, apparently I don't need to gap them *shrugs*
snotrag said:
Odie said:
Fit a new cambelt, How hard can it be....
Not very!How long does it take?
Id like to do mine but its been a while since i did a cambelt and the last time it was a ducatti engine that was out of the frame and on a bench...
Ohh and how do you do this "Set your base idle and timing up, and read off any fault codes......"
In fact ive done that before but it was on a austin metro, well apart from the fault reading, how do you read faults on an mx5?
Edited by Odie on Thursday 17th June 09:48
Odie said:
snotrag said:
Odie said:
Fit a new cambelt, How hard can it be....
Not very!How long does it take?
But essentially the timing belt is pretty easy, and is just unbolting bits and bolting them back on. The only tricky bit is getting the belt timing right - BUT its easy to check and if you get it wrong, you just try again.
I've typed all this up before on here somewhere, not sure where. I'll see if I can find it, some searching may bring it up.
It wont be any harder than a Ducati I would have though.
Access is pretty easy too - get it jacked up nice and high at the front.
Its miles easier if you remove the radiator too - this means you can sit underneath with loads of room to work. If your gonna do it, make the effort to do all the little extra bits at the same time -
Coolant flush, camshaft oil seals, Small end oil seal, waterpump, idlers, tensioner, cam cover gasket, CAS o-ring
ISTR that doing a 'proper job', replacing everything that it made sense to, cost about £120 in parts.
Can do it within a slow and steady saturday no sweat.
Only notable extra things you need in my experience are 2 girt big adjustable spanners to 'lock' the cams together, and a big enough breaker bar to break the bolt on the nose of the crank. Note that some people end up having to lock the crank with a home-made tool to get it undone - personally I was able to get mine undo just against the force of the handbrake with the car in gear.
Also make sure you have a tippex pen, or some white paint, or a white marker or something, makes the job much easier.
Edited by snotrag on Thursday 17th June 10:09
Well I finally got the Rods manual for the grand sum of £12 YEY!
Now I've gotta sort out a time to replace the standard shocks and springs, change the discs and pads, fit the new wheels and tyres and then move on to stuff like the timing, plug gaps, removing the carbon filter and maybe attempt to remove the aircon jobby
YEY!Now I've gotta sort out a time to replace the standard shocks and springs, change the discs and pads, fit the new wheels and tyres and then move on to stuff like the timing, plug gaps, removing the carbon filter and maybe attempt to remove the aircon jobby
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