What did you do in the garage yesterday?
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last night I pull off all the wheels, checked and cleaned the front brake disks and sanded the front pads to remove any glaze, swapped out the rear brake pads for DS2500's, checked all drive line bolts and found and tightened the loose front diff mounts to resolve the clonk I had then resealed around the brake fluid reservoir, topped up oil and PS fluid and checked gearbox and diff oil levels. all in about 90 minutes work. I am getting better at it!
Yesterday 'Ol Gasbag' developed a nasty hesitant flat spot when getting back on the throttle
So today I...
But the most shocking thing was just how dirty the throttle body & butterfly was, I really wish I'd taken a photo, there was so much oily carbon gunge on it the whole cleaning up job took me a good 40 minutes before I was happy with the "eat my dinner of it" end result.
With everything back together, hoses tightened, extra air valve cleaned, and many little sealing jobs complete I took the car for a test drive praying I didn't need to start suspecting the (£150 to replace) throttle position sensor.
Fortunately 'Ol Gasbag' was back to her silky smooth self, smother than ever in fact, and no real surprise given the state of the gunged up state of the throttle body & butterfly and the lose throttle neck extender sleeve thing.
Normal service resumed I took the dash of another Chimaera and did a cheeky reliability improving immobiliser bypass. Happy with that lot completed in what amounted to not much more than a mornings work I rewarded myself by taking my new TVR friend out to show him LPG doesn't mean slow at all
His expression of surprise was quite the thing
So today I...
- Removed the plenum & plenum base to inspect & reseal
- Cleaned the throttle body, butterfly, Bosch extra air valve and plenum
- Various associated resealing jobs on the plenum take offs (servo, vaporiser vac ref and positive crankcase ventilation hoses)
But the most shocking thing was just how dirty the throttle body & butterfly was, I really wish I'd taken a photo, there was so much oily carbon gunge on it the whole cleaning up job took me a good 40 minutes before I was happy with the "eat my dinner of it" end result.
With everything back together, hoses tightened, extra air valve cleaned, and many little sealing jobs complete I took the car for a test drive praying I didn't need to start suspecting the (£150 to replace) throttle position sensor.
Fortunately 'Ol Gasbag' was back to her silky smooth self, smother than ever in fact, and no real surprise given the state of the gunged up state of the throttle body & butterfly and the lose throttle neck extender sleeve thing.
Normal service resumed I took the dash of another Chimaera and did a cheeky reliability improving immobiliser bypass. Happy with that lot completed in what amounted to not much more than a mornings work I rewarded myself by taking my new TVR friend out to show him LPG doesn't mean slow at all
His expression of surprise was quite the thing
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