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evobatman posted:Paid over $3000 to the dealer (that's what I get for going to the dealership) for a bunch of maintenance and repairs on the Accord Type-R, and it didn't even feel that much better to drive Maintenance sucks. Spend all your money on sick mods.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:My question above was mainly about filler though. At what point should you use it? Is filler on bare steel then coated with all the above goodies going to make things less effective? I think it depends on the filler, epoxy filler is water proof, so it should be as good as a primer. I prefer to start with the primer though, then the penetrating stuff applied from inside and on the underside, let that dry a day or two before applying the undersealer. That's my plan anyway. I just put the epoxy putty over the epoxy primer to mask the weld area.
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# ? Jul 29, 2022 17:17 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:I think it depends on the filler, epoxy filler is water proof, so it should be as good as a primer. I prefer to start with the primer though, then the penetrating stuff applied from inside and on the underside, let that dry a day or two before applying the undersealer. That's my plan anyway. I just put the epoxy putty over the epoxy primer to mask the weld area. This is what I did as well. Epoxy primer, body filler, regular primer, paint. I primered both sides of the sheet metal before installing, then grinded off areas where I was spot welding and used weld thru primer as a touch up before welding. After it was all together I used predrilled holes in the rockers and used a flex nozzle with cavity spray in it, then put plastic plugs in those holes. Sprayed wax in the doors.
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# ? Jul 29, 2022 18:21 |
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I got my radials in and got them mounted. They poke a bit, but they're just for the track. It'll be fine when I put widebody fenders on eventually. Had to go the pvc route with my tpms lockout, but everything seems to work.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 20:45 |
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I got new tires(nothing fancy, hard to find anything in the true performance vein for the stock wheels) and did an oil change today then cleaned up and went for a spin.
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 02:29 |
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Nice lookin Bird! Decided to try and figure out why my sub quit working. Sub ohmed out fine, nothing coming from the amp, nothing on the RCA cables. Yanked the bezel to get to the stereo. Hmm... may as well fix the dead odometer (it's still counting, but early-mid 00s Fords usually lose power to the display). Usually that's touching up some traces on the cluster and slapping it back in. Did that, had a bright odometer for about 1 minute, then dead. Tried again, same result. Tried again, completely dead odometer. Tore the cluster down, realized I lifted a trace. Fawk. Managed to bodge it enough to get a dim odometer, which is better than nothing. I'll probably get a junkyard cluster and be a bit more careful touching up the cold solder joints, and swap the EEPROM over to keep the correct VIN/mileage/idle hours. Oh, sub crapped because of cheap lovely RCA cables that got damaged entirely too easily. Those who have dealt with having an aftermarket double DIN stereo in a Ford 1.75 DIN opening know what a pain in the rear end it is to pull the stereo (entire bezel comes off in my case, from headlight switch to the passenger vent, and the stereo is mounted to it).
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 03:36 |
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Finally tracked down my loving oil temp issue. I had a hunch it was ground related, then I came across a beautiful reply to a thread on HPAcademy by some saint named Chris250 which is a quote from Andy Wyatt of Adaptronic that is worth reading in its entirety. https://www.hpacademy.com/forum/general-tuning-discussion/show/sensor-ground-chassis-ground-question quote:Andy Wyatt (Adaptronic) has just went into depth about this on the Guild group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/737420992943719/permalink/1437864329566045/ The wiring harness has no separate sensor ground, they are all connected. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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Good post and glad you got it fixed!
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 13:44 |
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That post is excellent and anyone building a harness should read it.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 00:09 |
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The clutch pedal on my jetta decided to start sinking to the floor all of the sudden, out of the blue. After lots of hoping it wasn't the master cylinder, this is the master cylinder: My phone in NFG for closeups, but i think you can see why this failed ... I have no idea how it lasted so long, honestly. $200 later for a new master and slave, car is back in business.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 15:17 |
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STR posted:Those who have dealt with having an aftermarket double DIN stereo in a Ford 1.75 DIN opening know what a pain in the rear end it is to pull the stereo (entire bezel comes off in my case, from headlight switch to the passenger vent, and the stereo is mounted to it). I fuckin' hate that "feature". And they're so incredibly weak at that bit that goes over the steering column. Mine's already broken there. Couldn't have put a split right there to the left of the left-center vent, could you, Ford? BlackMK4 posted:Finally tracked down my loving oil temp issue. I had a hunch it was ground related, then I came across a beautiful reply to a thread on HPAcademy by some saint named Chris250 which is a quote from Andy Wyatt of Adaptronic that is worth reading in its entirety. So the correct fix, if I'm understanding, is that all the sensors should ground to the same point, and that point should be the ground at the ECU, which is not necessarily the body?
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Darchangel posted:So the correct fix, if I'm understanding, is that all the sensors should ground to the same point, and that point should be the ground at the ECU, which is not necessarily the body? That is my understanding of things. The vendor replied and said that it was done this way because that is how Honda does their K series harness, where as Haltech the ECU manuf expects what you're describing. What a pain in my rear end, we will see what happens. I should have bought an Exige.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 19:03 |
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Darchangel posted:I fuckin' hate that "feature". And they're so incredibly weak at that bit that goes over the steering column. Mine's already broken there. Couldn't have put a split right there to the left of the left-center vent, could you, Ford? Ford is just USA VW, so I'm totally not surprised. I swear their engineers will intentionally make the dumbest choice to screw over the service tech without actually making the assembly line's job any easier, every single time.
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kastein posted:Ford is just USA VW, so I'm totally not surprised. I swear their engineers will intentionally make the dumbest choice to screw over the service tech without actually making the assembly line's job any easier, every single time. At least you can flex the damned thing over the steering wheel with the tilt lowered as much as possible, which surprised me. Maximum "gently caress you" would have been requiring the steering column to be lowered - which requires the removal of the knee trim panel, *then* the actual steel knee panel under that. I'm sure it was an oversight. I gave serious thought to cutting it last time I had it out.
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kastein posted:Ford is just USA VW, so I'm totally not surprised. I swear their engineers will intentionally make the dumbest choice to screw over the service tech without actually making the assembly line's job any easier, every single time. It's a shame it had to this way because VWs and Mercedes, too, used to be so easy to service. The germans used their engineering for good, not for the finance department. I like my older german cars, newer ones (and by that i mean like 2000+) just scare me.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 20:03 |
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Finally, this was stressfull, working on a time limit. SO needs the car tomorrow, it's not optimal and I had to ignore imperfections I found. But eh, it's a car for use, not looks. Once the clear coat has hardened enough I'll do some color sanding and polish up the car itself though, should blend the panels better I think too.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Finally, this was stressfull, working on a time limit. SO needs the car tomorrow, it's not optimal and I had to ignore imperfections I found. But eh, it's a car for use, not looks. Once the clear coat has hardened enough I'll do some color sanding and polish up the car itself though, should blend the panels better I think too. Wow great work it looks just like there's a cat on it.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 20:44 |
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I wish I had painted the car cat colored instead, metallics such a PITA
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 12:10 |
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After owning the EP3 for three years I finally upgraded the radio to something modern, with CarPlay and phone capability. I see myself driving it a bit more often than in the past, so having hands-free phone and nav is a big deal.
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 23:53 |
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Fixing the brakes on the old red hilux because they dont loving work any more and every loving single thing is corroded or seized! Front Calipers- Not a spot of rust in the bores or on the chrome BELOW the piston rings- Above it? enough rust to sieze the pistons in the bores. Couldnt get the pad slide pins out without a punch because they rusted into the calipers and it took close to 80psi of air to push the pistons out! Broke out the blast cabinet and went to town after a lot of masking and protecting of bores Then repaint the calipers because I blew all the paint off and didnt want them to rust again instantly. The piston tops all got hit with cold galvanising spray because it should help stop corrosion in the future. And then MANY hours later per side on the front, calipers back together and on the front with new seals and boots. And a shitload of rubber grease all over the areas that rusted and couldnt be painted. And then found the load proportioning valve (that changes rear brake bias depending on whether the utes loaded or not) was totally siezed up and corroded too... so that took several more hours to overhaul. I dont know why a car thats in Australia looks like one from the rustbelt? Got that done, then got stuck into the rear drum brakes, and had to pull an axle to replace a leaking axle seal because it was filling the drum with oil And thats when i found the rear brake cylinders didnt move either... Probably cos the pistons looked like the one on the left, the one on the right has been cleaned up. DIY bore hone? and I need to buy a lathe so I can do this poo poo properly... Spun em up and polished with wet and dry And then the bearing decided to put up a shitfight with me and wouldnt come off with an oxy and sledgehammer and at 10pm at night I decided that firing up the cold cut saw and welder to build a set of press tools to hang the axle below my press deck to push the axle out was probably going to upset the neighbours whos house is literally 6 meters from my workshop... So thats another days problem. This thing has done 1700km in the last 12 months and been parked outside and it shows!
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# ? Aug 6, 2022 14:13 |
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Ferremit posted:I dont know why a car thats in Australia looks like one from the rustbelt? Those look better than the ones on my mom's three year old Hyundai. Salt. Salt never changes.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:After owning the EP3 for three years I finally upgraded the radio to something modern, with CarPlay and phone capability. I see myself driving it a bit more often than in the past, so having hands-free phone and nav is a big deal. That stereo looks familiar... KW-M56BT?
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# ? Aug 7, 2022 06:54 |
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STR posted:That stereo looks familiar... KW-M560BT, whatever the difference might be 🤷🏻♂️
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# ? Aug 7, 2022 14:21 |
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100k mile (99960) oil change, quick jack continues to be excellent and worth the couple minutes to drag out and position.
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# ? Aug 7, 2022 15:26 |
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Went to take the radials off after a night at the track, and in putting my street wheels/tires back on, I dropped one face down in the driveway, which is rock. Dinged up the paint on the driver's side wheel. I touched it up, but it looks like I'm repainting the wheels this fall/winter.
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# ? Aug 7, 2022 17:25 |
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Ripped out the old steering column and replaced it with an ididit chrome tilt column. Old: New: No more rag joint.. new nickel plated d-bar and unions.. looks awesome with the chrome cpp500 steering box. New steering wheel too.
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# ? Aug 8, 2022 00:51 |
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I took the Binder around the block. I popped the screw off the side of the fuel bowl and filled it up with the Nalgene first, and it fired right up which was nice. I really should either drive it more or do that every time. Lots of smoke overall though. Things had gotten a bid dry and weeped over the exhaust manifolds. I'll try and make a point to drive it a bit and perhaps get a buddy to follow as a support crew just in case. I really need to rebuild my confidence. I've driven the truck over a hundred miles in one trip in winter time... I know it's capable. I just get worried with the last batch of issues.
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# ? Aug 8, 2022 01:19 |
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Drum brakes suck. Drum brakes with a leaky axle seal suck even more. Drum brakes with a leaky axle seal on a semi floating axle that you have to press the bearing and retainer on and off suck the absolute most. I am covered in black, stink of kerosine and every time I touch a brake clean can every single cut or scratch on my hands sings the song of its people. I should just find a 95 series rear axle and weld it in so I get rear disks and be done with it…
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# ? Aug 8, 2022 02:10 |
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Really? I like drum brakes, they seem to last forever compared to disks. Changed them once in 15 years on my current car. Of course I had a shop do that for me, worth a few hundred.Nidhg00670000 posted:
It's pretty normal here for people to take their new cars to shops which spray the undersides with undercarriage protection against rust, as well as all the cavities. They skipped that on my Mazda whoever owned it first. But it's highly recommended. I have a friend who drove a 1984 opel kadet until last year, he was the 2nd owner and he had treated it religiously. Opels from that time are known as rust buckets but it had no rust, and it had achieved veteran car status, managed to sell it for a few hundred less than he bought it for. Insane, apparently it was in good enough shape for a collector be interested in it.
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His Divine Shadow posted:It's pretty normal here for people to take their new cars to shops which spray the undersides with undercarriage protection against rust, as well as all the cavities. They skipped that on my Mazda whoever owned it first. But it's highly recommended. Ya, I'm in middle Sweden and I've had extra rust-proofing done on many cars through the years. Getting an Opel of any vintage to last that long without dying the brown death is impressive. It's still not super uncommon for people to call rust "opelsjukan" here (the Opel sickness).
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It was a pretty weird car, it had an earlier 1.2 liter engine dating back to the 60s, instead of the regular 1.4 engines that the normal kadets would've had. Apparently it was an extra cheapo option for the finnish and other markets, the engine used push rods instead of a belt, a fact he said he highly priced for it's increased reliability. I think he gave up on keeping it going when the fuel tank imploded from a stuck tank vent. Did find one in Norway, a new tank but it was getting too much since he used the car as a daily driver.
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# ? Aug 8, 2022 16:31 |
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Cross posted from Motronic's informative AC thread. I recently filled my old R-12 AC system with some computer duster (R-152). The AC started blowing cold, but I noticed that the top fan speed was not working correctly. I checked voltage at the fan and noticed that the lowest speed read ~3V, the next speed read ~5V, then ~7V, but the top speed also read ~7V. The top speed should just be battery voltage. I pulled the fan speed switch and saw burn marks in it. I ordered a new on from Amazon. While the dash was apart, I might as well change the stereo head unit, right? And the new head unit has a microphone for Bluetooth calling that mounts by the sun visor. The new head unit has more RCA pre-outs, so I guess I should change the way the interior speakers are connected and add a second amplifier for the subwoofer. And if you give a mouse a cookie... You'll end up with an interior full of tools and a truck bed full of interior parts.
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PBCrunch posted:Cross posted from Motronic's informative AC thread. Hmmmm.... That interior looks very Mazda to me, even without logos. B2000? And yes, cascading "mightaswells" are very familiar. Might as well do this while I'm in here...
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Darchangel posted:Hmmmm.... That interior looks very Mazda to me, even without logos. B2000? 1993 Toyota Pickup. What a great name. Not T2400 or anything. Just Pickup.
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PBCrunch posted:1993 Toyota Pickup. What a great name. Not T2400 or anything. Just Pickup. Why they didn't call it "Hilux" like everywhere else in the world I'll never understand
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KakerMix posted:Why they didn't call it "Hilux" like everywhere else in the world I'll never understand I don't know, but the people at Isuzu of America were taking the same drugs at the time.
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# ? Aug 8, 2022 22:02 |
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also see: Toyota Van
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PBCrunch posted:1993 Toyota Pickup. What a great name. Not T2400 or anything. Just Pickup. Ah, yeah, that'll look a lot like the Maz back then. PBCrunch posted:I don't know, but the people at Isuzu of America were taking the same drugs at the time. Wasn't the Isuzu the "P'up"? And don't forget the Chevy LUV (which was an Isuzu...)
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cursedshitbox posted:also see: Toyota Van Shoulda kept the Japanese 'MasterAce Surf' naming scheme (with trims called 'Royal Lounge' and 'Grand Saloon')
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Toyota Deliboy is a favourite of mine. It's a shortened version of Delivery boy but just makes it sound like it's always full of delicious meats.
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