Dad's retirement project - TT flavoured
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tallpaul26 said:
Love this thread.
Your boost hoses will be the first to go post-remap. Especially the turbo outlet hose.
Yes I had that problem, it was the Turbo intake on mine, it was collapsing with the added boost, hard walled silicone one sorted the problem. Have you done the Wak air box mod ? If not google it and have a go, the intake sounds fantastic after that Your boost hoses will be the first to go post-remap. Especially the turbo outlet hose.
with the weather the way it is it would be rude to not do some pressing jobs on Claude, as previously said the G201 and G214 sensors which live on the brake master cylinder had been bought and put on the shelf, today was that day they were going to get fitted.
Other jobs being to replace the alarm siren in the rear and to also fit a pair of white led number plate lights...
it goes without saying that other jobs have been identified whilst in all of this... projects are never truly done in any fashion...!!!
so the first job was to tackle the easiest....
alarm siren....
it will become apparent later why the wheels are off...!!!
rear light removed and the defunct item removed. Good old Ebay had allowed us to purchase a replacement used item, the theory being it being from a later car it "should" be a bit better.....
Opened the box as to what we had bought... the bloody seller had stitched us up..!!!
The auction clearly showed a picture and description clearing showing a 605A, we needed a 605A which was why we bought this one... the seller sent us a 605....!!! it was about as much use as a chocolate tea pot... so that's being returned....
The original item was put back and and of course it was at this point in it's life that it decided to sing it's little socks off and show everyone how the alarm sounded.... so that's been disconnected for now....!!1
I could clearly see how today was going to pan out at this point....!!!
The rear LED's actually went without any issue, other than the tailgate clearly needing some rust treatment before it is too far gone, it won't last another winter....
We'll get some dark shots of the new improved number plate lights...
onto the main event
all parts on the left hand side of the bay were stripped out to get to the brake reservoir...
on stripping the reservoir out the loom going to warning level sensor on the res cap decided today was a good day to part company, so a repining game will be the order of the day once a kit has been found and ordered...!!!
that was duly extracted and the 2 sensors swapped out...
before the reservoir went back in a little fluid was put back into the cylinder to hopefully prevent any airlocks so a full rebleed wouldn't be necessary...!!!
all built back up and bled and a nice solid pedal as expected... great... job done or so i thought, the lights remained on the dash board which i thought strange, no worries i thought i must need to clear them with the pc.... plugged in and diagnostics ran.... and cleared and what were we left with?
both bloody lights left on... WFT i thought....
seems with the heat the right rear ABS sensor decided was today was it's last day on earth...!!!
stripped down the rear brakes, seems i was here just last week annoyingly....
thankfully the retaining bolt came out after giving it a good talking too... from my last TT i was sure i had new ABS sensors on the shelf, nope, all front ones only. So a rear has been ordered and a job for next week....
Projects are never truly done, we just find more things to do, however despite the set backs it was a great day with Dad...!!! especially the lunchtime hot dogs my partner cooked up...!!!
Other jobs being to replace the alarm siren in the rear and to also fit a pair of white led number plate lights...
it goes without saying that other jobs have been identified whilst in all of this... projects are never truly done in any fashion...!!!
so the first job was to tackle the easiest....
alarm siren....
it will become apparent later why the wheels are off...!!!
rear light removed and the defunct item removed. Good old Ebay had allowed us to purchase a replacement used item, the theory being it being from a later car it "should" be a bit better.....
Opened the box as to what we had bought... the bloody seller had stitched us up..!!!
The auction clearly showed a picture and description clearing showing a 605A, we needed a 605A which was why we bought this one... the seller sent us a 605....!!! it was about as much use as a chocolate tea pot... so that's being returned....
The original item was put back and and of course it was at this point in it's life that it decided to sing it's little socks off and show everyone how the alarm sounded.... so that's been disconnected for now....!!1
I could clearly see how today was going to pan out at this point....!!!
The rear LED's actually went without any issue, other than the tailgate clearly needing some rust treatment before it is too far gone, it won't last another winter....
We'll get some dark shots of the new improved number plate lights...
onto the main event
all parts on the left hand side of the bay were stripped out to get to the brake reservoir...
on stripping the reservoir out the loom going to warning level sensor on the res cap decided today was a good day to part company, so a repining game will be the order of the day once a kit has been found and ordered...!!!
that was duly extracted and the 2 sensors swapped out...
before the reservoir went back in a little fluid was put back into the cylinder to hopefully prevent any airlocks so a full rebleed wouldn't be necessary...!!!
all built back up and bled and a nice solid pedal as expected... great... job done or so i thought, the lights remained on the dash board which i thought strange, no worries i thought i must need to clear them with the pc.... plugged in and diagnostics ran.... and cleared and what were we left with?
both bloody lights left on... WFT i thought....
seems with the heat the right rear ABS sensor decided was today was it's last day on earth...!!!
stripped down the rear brakes, seems i was here just last week annoyingly....
thankfully the retaining bolt came out after giving it a good talking too... from my last TT i was sure i had new ABS sensors on the shelf, nope, all front ones only. So a rear has been ordered and a job for next week....
Projects are never truly done, we just find more things to do, however despite the set backs it was a great day with Dad...!!! especially the lunchtime hot dogs my partner cooked up...!!!
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