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I recharged my A/C system today and replaced my very old and very cracked serpentine belt. Now all I need to do is a complete brake service and replace the transmission filter/oil. And wash the car. And fix the front electric locks. And fix the stereo. 
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Pulled off the passenger side rear drum to check why the parking brake wasn't engaging on that side. Found out the end snapped off of the cable, so I put the drum back on and decided that I just won't park on hills, and live with only 1 wheel locking.
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Ho boy. Started out at about 5am today just because I knew it'd take awhile. New month (tomorrow, fine, but): Fluid checks, filter checks, finally replaced the mostly-duct-tape brake fluid reservoir cap on 2K with an actually-functional-and-not-a-mess cap, and replaced a Lowes bolt holding my IDM down with one intended. Looks quite a bit less rednecked now. Checked the treads all around (gotta flip 'em on the 2K soon drat SR-431 is a bitch on tires), and a very minor spot-repair (electrical tape, of course) for the rubber seal on the 9-3 just to protech a very minor tear forming, as well as replacing a should-have-been-replaced-when-PCV-6-was-done check valve 9189564. Maybe it was already. It's happier, and a bit peppier now. Then, hour-long trips to get the viscous fluids flowing, and finally, a wash for my babies.   That's the last moving/sales temp-plate, er template. I haven't bothered to peel it off - it amuses me to be driving around with a 'good through '04' visible to those behind me while I wait for my plates. I want to clay bar the 9-3 so drat bad. Back to borking..
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Finally got around to this Click here for the full 1136x852 image.
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#1 Son bought a '95 Aspire. I drove it 80 miles home with a wasted clutch and no shifter bushings.
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Put a new wiper module in the E36 and now I have consistently working wipers!
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Aug 2, 2010 18:52
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Blew out the plugged AC drain with air. Hopefully that will keep Lake PassengerSide from forming again.
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Saturday: Completed strut & spring job on my 1995 Integra Replaced EFI main relay on my brother's 1992 Accord Got new-to-me struts from a junkyard donor for the 1995 Escort wagon I have been working on to flip for profit Sunday: Was hung over Replaced struts on Escort wagon Replaced bent-up front door on Escort wagon Cleaned up garage good enough to fit two cars inside Tonight: Hopefully sell Escort wagon Failing that, the rear brakes on my 1999 Cherokee need some work, and new parking brake cables
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Just had my first real breakdown. Thermostat got stuck closed in busy traffic and my car did it's best kettle impression. Then when the breakdown guy arrived he pulled the thermostat cover all over the engine bay, got all the plugs wet and the car died again when I pulled back out into the traffic.  Got home eventually though, gonna head out tomorrow for a new thermostat, seal and coolant. If the car's lucky I'll give it a wash.
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quadpus posted:After fixing the automatic choke on my Civic and adjusting the fast idle to where it's supposed to be, the fast idle never actually wanted to kick in, meaning the engine won't idle without stalling until it gets warmed up. Finally got the correct thermosensor after being backordered at rockauto, installed it and  I love that this 30 year old car runs so well now!
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Well been futsing around with my 86 dodge ram w150 4x4 (Powah Ram royal se bitches) Alternator went out the other day, it would run just not with ANYTHING electrical on at the same time. Driving to work at 5am with no headlights on the freeway was interesting, if I turned them on I would lose spark and turn the truck into a stumbling backfiring machine. It was fun for a few secs to have a backfire switch, now my muffler is all crunched like I backed into something, I wonder if thats related. Went to the pull it yer self junk yard in search of this mystical alternator only to find they got rid of most of their mid 80s dodge pickups. Ended up having to pull it out of a ram van. This was a pain in the rear end due to the motors being shoved way back, thankfully someone had already removed the dog house allowing somewhat easier access. Got the damned alternator in place, belts on and went to tension up the belts and wait... Why are my belts seemingly too long now?! Had to spend $40 loving dollars on 2 lousy belts, the alternator was only $15!!!! I ended up leaving off the smog pump belt since its a lousy smog pump, gently caress it. Then I noticed something dripping just under the alt, it was the gas line from the fuel filter. It totally explained why my system would randomly deprime while parked and my horrible (well horrible for the 5.2 v8) fuel economy. $5 worth of hose and hose clamps fixed that little problem. Also tried to take my exhaust off (from the muffler on is only clamped, no welds) to see how she sounds uncorked but I couldnt get the damned muffler to wiggle off the pipe. Everything else came off cept that, so I gave up and reassembled. Noticed one thing, it appears the left exhaust manifold has a tiny catalytic converter but not the right. Its before the 2 combine into one, rather strange to be honest. If I had access to a welder and a sawzall I would get rid of that unsightly lump in my exhaust system. Also apparently this trucks power steering only moves one tire, I thought systems were connected to both but Ive never put much thought into it. It moves both via a swaybar looking piece that connects the two. Are all trucks this way? ExtremeODD fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Aug 2, 2010 |
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Aug 2, 2010 22:01
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Today was going so well, after the thermostat exploding in the middle of Reading episode yesterday I limped my car home, limped it to the parts store this morning and bought a new air filter, spark plugs, thermostat + seal and some coolant. Swapped the air filter fine (8 screws to hold in an air filter, really VW?), changed the plugs for the first time OK even with their stupid positioning. Pulled the thermostat cover off after getting almost all the coolant straight into the waiting bucket to find when the thermostat exploded yesterday, it punched a hole in the stupid bridge in the housing that normally holds it in place. I even looked at it yesterday while bodging the cooling system back together and remarked that it looked suprisingly intact. VW 
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Aug 3, 2010 17:02
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I got my plates; put 'em on the green one.
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'88 Honda Prelude 2.0Si Changed the dead headlight. While at the store I tried to buy replacement end-link-kits for my rear sway bar, but they weren't in stock. I also talked to the local dealership, if I place the order before 2:00pm tomorrow I can get a new "fuel pump relay" which I think is the same as the "main relay" that I believe is on its way out. Picked up oil and a filter (Fram... only thing they had) for a planned session on my back this weekend. So, this weekend I intend to 1. SeaFoam it, and take samples of engine oil before and after to send to Blackstone (I already have 2 sample containers from them, ready to go) 2. Change the oil 3. Replace the main relay, assuming the one I plan to order from the dealership is, in fact, the black lump to the left of my fuse panel under the driver's side of the dashboard that I think it is. This part is frustrating to look for - the shop manual I have indicates it has 7 pins, the websites I've seen only talk about 4- or 5-pin relays. 4. Replace the rear sway-bar links (old ones completely rusted away). This is assuming a different parts-store (Canadian Tire? NAPA?) has them in stock. Also, while at the store I rediscovered my love of being one of the smallest cars on the road.  Despite appearances, I'm pretty sure my car would not *quite* fit in the bed of a Ford F-150. Unless you removed the side mirrors, maybe. And for those wondering about leaving their cars for a month unattended, I just did exactly that, and it started no problem this afternoon, even with the (probably) bad relay that doesn't like high temperatures. Not too warm today, and the only thing I dealt with on my car before driving was a tire with slightly low pressure.
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Aug 5, 2010 04:11
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ExecuDork posted:'88 Honda Prelude 2.0Si Did you ever bleed your brakes? Or at least get the bleeders un-seized?
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Dropped it off for 50% of what the car is worth to be done in welding so I can get an MOT 
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Aug 5, 2010 09:42
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I went outside and pissed a grid around all of 'em. gently caress y'all! These my bitches! 
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My dad and I started cracking open my 99 Galant GTZ to get at the timing belt and water pump. What a loving nightmare. We must've worked on it for 2 or 3 hours last night and we're only just able to see the timing belt now, through a little hole where I think the crankshaft pulley was. The Haynes manual is stupid too, because it shows that you can stick a screwdriver right through the pulley wheel to hold it while you loosen up the crankshaft bolt in the center. So my dad and I had to ghetto-rig a sort of a lever with a small pry bar and the end of a big rear end drill bit that I had to hold on to while he tried to loosen it up. Also, it says you have to take out the alternator, and that the only thing in the way is the power steering hose. Turns out it's NOT the power steering hose, but the AC hose, AND there's a thick steel shield right over the top of the alternator that was bolted to the block. Sucks because this isn't even a performance upgrade. With this level of work and commitment, you would hope you could be messing around with engine internals or some other major upgrade, but nope, this is just regular maintenance to ensure that my valves are crushed to gently caress by my pistons.
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ExecuDork posted:'88 Honda Prelude 2.0Si You don't need to buy a new relay. If you can solder at all you can just re-solder the joints inside the relay. The plastic cover pops right off and you can see the solder joints. They are all pretty big so it is not hard to do at all. Just get some solder and a soldering iron and re-melt the existing solder and add some more. Make sure to get the existing joint real hot so you don't end up with a cold joint that can fail again in the future.
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Free hail chip repair! ... as part of the continued work to refit my bumper to clean up after the first repair shop, which apparently just left random parts out of it. Next: Fixing the "fuel distributor" (  ) on an '86 Audi 5000. What the hell is a fuel distributor? Apparently it's attached to the fuel pressure regulator, so it must be somewhere on the injector fuel rail. Or not! Inside of it is a tiny rubber plunger which apparently shits itself after, oh, about 25 years. Mechanical fuel injection is fun.
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PBCrunch posted:You don't need to buy a new relay. If you can solder at all you can just re-solder the joints inside the relay. Sponge! posted:Did you ever bleed your brakes? Or at least get the bleeders un-seized? EDIT: this guide has enough detail and explaining-the-obvious even for a moron like me. EDIT 2: Apparently, success! A bit of trouble getting the drat thing out from under the dashboard, but my rudimentary soldering skills were sufficient to melt a bit of solder and heal the circular crack around one of the points. This picture is from before; after looks much the same, but with a bit more metal in a few places. The car started up without any trouble after I plugged everything back in.  \/\/\/ Nice! Initial thoughts? ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Aug 5, 2010 |
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Aug 5, 2010 17:01
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Didn't do much, besides buying it today!
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ExecuDork posted:EFI Main Relay Shenanigans I know the EFI main relay for a 1990s Accord is pretty widely available brand new for under $30 for an aftermarket unit, and about $40 for an OEM Honda part.
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PBCrunch posted:That looks like the troublemaker. I wonder how many 80s Hondas have ended up being sold or junked because of that little box of trouble. My impression is that Accord parts are a bit cheaper and a bit more readily available than Prelude equivalents, when the two cars have different bits. The biggest problem wasn't diagnosing the issue, it was tracking down the precise name of the part - "main relay" is not a term that shows up on parts-stores websites.
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PBCrunch posted:That looks like the troublemaker. I wonder how many 80s Hondas have ended up being sold or junked because of that little box of trouble. 80's Hondas? Probably not many, they were mostly carbureted. Most the main relay problems where with 90's cars, after Honda went 100% fuel injected. I remember the first time I ran into the infamous main relay problem. My wife drove our 1991 Accord mostly, and it kept refusing to start for her. She'd fiddle with it and fiddle with it and fiddle with it and nothing. Then she'd call me into it, I'd hop in and it would fire right up. I'm sure it was pure coincidence it kept happening like that over and over, but it sure drove her nuts. Eventually I learned of the main relay and repaired it with a soldering gun myself.
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ExecuDork posted:I know that partsource.... Diagnosing the lack of A/C in my Jetta, and taking pictures to sell it. Put in cap/rotor/plugs/wires on the weekend.
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Timmy Cruise posted:I know that partsource.... General question: are the infamous "electrical gremlins" that so many cars / manufacturers / nationalities famous for typically like the starting weirdness of a dying EFI main relay? You know, symptoms come and go, depending on the weather, who is sitting in the driver's seat, how long it's been since the car sat overnight outside, etc. My encounter with such gremlins was frustrating enough, thinking about British Leyland or Alfa Romeo makes my head hurt.
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I ordered a compete set of Spitfire coil packs and some spark plugs. Hopefully this should stop it misfiring and then backfiring.
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ExecuDork posted:Another toon-goon here? Partsource has been treating me fairly decently so far, hence I went a bit out of my way to the north side of town. Electrical gremlins aren't hard when you actually have a good knowledge of electronics in the first place... Plus the ETM for the vehicle in question is always a bonus. 
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Dear dealer service rep: You're a helluva nice guy. You seem to remember my name, always compliment my car's looks when it comes in, and I appreciate your offer of that Audi ski bag you made as you passed through the waiting area. However, especially since I live an hour away, the next time I come in for a scheduled appointment for the coilpack recall, I'd appreciate if you somehow learn that they are a special order item that your parts department doesn't have onhand before I come in for my scheduled appointment for the coilpack recall. Thanks.
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TheFrailNinja posted:My dad and I started cracking open my 99 Galant GTZ to get at the timing belt and water pump. What a loving nightmare. We must've worked on it for 2 or 3 hours last night and we're only just able to see the timing belt now, through a little hole where I think the crankshaft pulley was. The Haynes manual is stupid too, because it shows that you can stick a screwdriver right through the pulley wheel to hold it while you loosen up the crankshaft bolt in the center. So my dad and I had to ghetto-rig a sort of a lever with a small pry bar and the end of a big rear end drill bit that I had to hold on to while he tried to loosen it up. Also, it says you have to take out the alternator, and that the only thing in the way is the power steering hose. Turns out it's NOT the power steering hose, but the AC hose, AND there's a thick steel shield right over the top of the alternator that was bolted to the block. The other day we got the timing belt off and discovered that it's perfectly fine. Probably has another 50,000 miles on it, easy. Same with the water pump.
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Yesterday: full bumper rebar replacement. I wish I had taken a picture of the old bumper rebar; the previous shop had just cut and welded it back together again to "un-bend" it. The welds were chock full of really nasty looking rust and the fitment holes on the rebar had obviously been cut out with a Dremel in order to make it fit. The new rebar is a little expensive, but it's worth it so my bumper actually lines up straight and I won't die horribly in a collision:  I think the shop may have taken some pictures of her guts when we had the bumper cover off to have it repainted, I'll see if I can get them. edit: Man, my headlight lenses are getting foggy. I'll have to see if I can find some decent headlight polish. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 6, 2010 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:edit: Man, my headlight lenses are getting foggy. I'll have to see if I can find some decent headlight polish. Wetsand that poo poo! I did it to my 03 acura TL and the headlights look brand new. Used 800, then 1000, then 1500 grit.
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TheFrailNinja posted:The other day we got the timing belt off and discovered that it's perfectly fine. Probably has another 50,000 miles on it, easy. Same with the water pump. Well isn't that kinda the point? To replace it before you have a catastrophic failure?
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notbrant posted:Wetsand that poo poo! When I did that on my old car I used 800, 1000, 1500 and then some 3M headlight polish. Looked brand spankin' new.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:When I did that on my old car I used 800, 1000, 1500 and then some 3M headlight polish. Looked brand spankin' new. I was really lazy back when I had my Nova (Vauxhall, not Chevy!!) - sprayed the front and rear light clusters with clear lacquer, looked like new again. Until the heat from the main beam started lifting the lacquer on the headlights - rears still looked good though. This week, I've done a few bits and bobs on my Discovery... 2" suspension lift kit, set of 265/75/16 Insa Turbo Dakar MT tyres, camel cut rear arches, steering guard, side exit exhaust, and removed the anti-roll bars. Still got to remove the towbar, and fit recovery gear.   
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got my 95 hatch tuned today, just in time for a huge imports x domestics meet tonight. can't wait to run it hard. i'm telling everyone i'm running singlecam vtec with an "interfooler" and am going to refuse to pop my hood or spool up untill my first couple runs. modz: b16 head w/ cams, pnp b18c1 block w/ internals and sleeves brand spankin new turbo w/ open DP, ebay IC, and ssqbov clone 2000 integra seats, dash, and center console 2000 usdm integra type-r wheels & 5-lug hubs illuminas, control arms, and assorted bars & subframe braces lsd tranny with frankenstein gears some 30$ cracked and hosed up CF hood and a spraybombed fiberglass hatch 385whp conservatively tuned & boosted  Click here for the full 1024x768 image. don't let the picture fool you, its much more beat up than it looks, cosmetically i could care less really, everything but the 5lug swap (i never saw a 4lug car actually lose a wheel...) and the interior is for more power/less weight. i also like the 5lug b/c i can use a lot of wheels the honda kids around here can't. i'd make a project thread (and yes, the legacy wagon eg33 swap will get a project thread but i'm waiting for some parts still) but you guys don't seem to like hondas. i love hondas and am in love with the b-series vtec motors, but i just hate honda people Captain Crabsticks fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 6, 2010 |
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Captain Crabsticks posted:got my 95 hatch tuned today, just in time for a huge imports x domestics meet tonight. can't wait to run it hard. i'm telling everyone i'm running singlecam vtec with an "interfooler" and am going to refuse to pop my hood or spool up untill my first couple runs. I like hondas, I currently have a 1980 Civic hatchback I can't bear to let go of even though I don't need it for anything. I think most people here would like a honda thread, as long as it's a good honda thread and not a lovely honda thread
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Captain Crabsticks posted:i'd make a project thread (and yes, the legacy wagon eg33 swap will get a project thread but i'm waiting for some parts still) but you guys don't seem to like hondas. i love hondas and am in love with the b-series vtec motors, but i just hate honda people I like Hondas and especially ones like this. Please make a thread. I know how you feel, I have a couple VWs and can't stand most of that crowd either.
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