blue hatch

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

todays work on the blue hatch.

work began at the oil pressure sender, senders blocked it woudl seem anyway, I noticed this at the starter

yes that is a bit of wire soldered to the starter where the spade should be and scotchlocked to the solenoid wire! lol gypo! Still it works.

heres a pic looking up at the broken manifold bolt cos a stud won;t go thing

I was thinkin a stud may thread back in, no chance, gonna need to change the manifold.

previous owner bought a new cat at some point! muppet. Its abotu half the size of the original renault one.

I replaced the dodgy bolt on the left with the proper bolt on the right, thats for the lower pinch bolt btw! A very important bolt!

As I was working on all the other earths and I was doing the pinch bolt I looked at the main braided earth from the inner wing to the box. It fell apart!

I alsop replaced the broke rear arch liner, heres the broken one

I also tidied out the boot and done a few other things on it.,

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

Tidy darts mun

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

you sorted the chammys earths yet JB?

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

I did yes. Cleaned and roughed up all the earths and topped up a bit of water in the battery...so far it has started everytime, but I don't think we have had such a cold morning since I did it yet.

But touch wood, seems OK again.

Need to sort my exhaust again...it seems to wear that outer mid-section mount for some reason and starts to catch my drive so I have to park on the street...pain in the butt.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

make sure the clamp to the backbox is tight, when its loose I find that mount will snap

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

oh ok ill check that out...im starting to get a blow somewhere as it goes...prolly rot tho knowing my luck