Ewan's Rev 4 N/A

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:34 pm

synXero wrote:

I once spent c. 2 hours under the car, hacksawing above my head. Didn't own an angle grinder.

Them steels is tough.

Insane effort. Fitted the other drop link today, with the wheel still on as I've somehow lost my locking wheel nut since last night.

synXero · Post by **synXero** » Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:34 pm

If it isn't bodged, it doesn't count

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:13 pm

Update: Found my locking wheel nut.

Also this morning, on the way to uni I missed my junction and ended up in the clouds on a 30 mile detour. So I made the most of it, had a nice drive through some pretty good roads, stopped and had breakfast.

Breakfast:

Fog:

synXero · Post by **synXero** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:13 pm

Yesssss, that's the spirit!!

Where do you live (ballpark?)

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:25 pm

Bradford, at Huddersfield uni and ended up near Oldham.

RikH77 · Post by **RikH77** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:04 pm

Hope cars going well, if you want to bob past this weekend am in UK, you read it for fault codes since you got it?

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 2:13 pm

RikH77 wrote:Hope cars going well, if you want to bob past this weekend am in UK, you read it for fault codes since you got it?

Ah it's ok thanks, just going to buy a new radiator. Haven't had it read for codes, no. What do you do out of interest?

Gave it a clean inside & out today, and made the exhaust sparkle much more than it has since I got it.

No fancy camera photos unfortunately.

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:21 pm

So my radiator is definitely leaking: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...08132673981371

Car's out of order till I buy a new one. On the upside, read it for fault codes today and none came up which cheered me up.

RikH77 · Post by **RikH77** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:34 pm

matt-mr2 · Post by **matt-mr2** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:37 pm

Nice exhaust

Donato · Post by **Donato** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:44 pm

Love your exhaust. I have pretty much the same one

DanT · Post by **DanT** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:54 pm

car looks great...i really need to find me one of those exhausts!!

Donato · Post by **Donato** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:30 am

DanT wrote:car looks great...i really need to find me one of those exhausts!!

Good luck

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:21 pm

matt-mr2 wrote:Nice exhaust

Donato wrote:Love your exhaust. I have pretty much the same one

DanT wrote:car looks great...i really need to find me one of those exhausts!!

Thank you, exhaust is my favourite thing. Nice and reserved while normal driving, but a nice sound once you get past about 3k. Need to get it off and give it a full polish really.

New radiator got delivered today, so set about fitting it after work.

Got the old one out, holes everywhere:

New:

Need to clean up those brackets some time. Anyway, got the new one in, swapped the fan and fan temperature sensor over, connected everything up. Started the car and no leaks, which made me happy.

I didn't stay happy though, as after an hour of trying I still couldn't get all the air out of the system and it still overheats and now I'm sad, exhausted and ready for bed. And more buses.

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:27 pm

Oh and the fan's not kicking in.

Donato · Post by **Donato** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:44 pm

Love your commitment in this weather

Which radiator did you go for? There's a guide on here on how to bleed it properly, I'll try and dig it out for you.

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:51 pm

Donato wrote:Love your commitment in this weather

Which radiator did you go for? There's a guide on here on how to bleed it properly, I'll try and dig it out for you.

After 10 hours at work too, knackered now.

It's an aluminium core one that'd been recommended. Only problem is the bleed valves are a different diameter to stock so I couldn't get the hose on. Will have to grab some tomorrow, don't know if it will work though - air is released through the valve screw when the hole for the hose is covered. Might be normal, too tired to think tbh.

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:44 pm

Tried to bleed it again today. New radiator has a massive diameter bleed valve which I don't have a hose to fit. So I was told to just do it from the heater valve and rad cap. Little better than when I first tried but still not working. Sad face.

synXero · Post by **synXero** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:36 pm

This is one of the reasons why I got a copper replacement, bleed valves are the same size as oem and it's all very simple. I did my airlock bleed whilst my girlfriend went for a shower after I put a bad rad cap on once, it only room 30 minutes or so!

Best of luck getting it bled out successfully.

VanderBoon · Post by **VanderBoon** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:30 pm

VICTORY!! Had it running for 2 hours, everything's perfect. Fan sorted too.

www.imoc.co.uk

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