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Post by boggissimo on Oct 10, 2023 7:58:46 GMT
Managed to do all four valve stem oil seals on cylinder #1 last night. What a ballache those little valve keepers are! 1 down, 3 to go...
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Post by atlex on Oct 10, 2023 10:46:54 GMT
I replaced my old TPS with a new TPS on the White car. My old one had a failure mode where sometimes it gave 0 volts. I tried a chinese copy but that lost calibration so fast it was awful. So put up the money for a new one.. http://instagram.com/p/CyLaK6EoZ4g |
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Post by dadbif on Oct 10, 2023 17:40:45 GMT
Managed to do all four valve stem oil seals on cylinder #1 last night. What a ballache those little valve keepers are! 1 down, 3 to go... Grease and a magnet are your friends |
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Post by boggissimo on Oct 11, 2023 9:22:08 GMT
Managed to do all four valve stem oil seals on cylinder #1 last night. What a ballache those little valve keepers are! 1 down, 3 to go... Grease and a magnet are your friends Still a ballache, however you do it! I found that I could generally get the collets in with the slightly magnetised tweezers atlex provided, but needed get them away from the tweezers with a pencil. Cylinder 4 was the worst as it's so hard to see what you're doing.
I had a moment when I was onto the last cylinder, I'd filled it with rope and then stupidly put the tool on the cylinder next door. Got as far as removing the oil seals that I'd installed about an hour earlier, wondered why they were so easy to get out and a different colour to the rest....then realised the rope was going into cylinder 3 and I'd taken the seals off cylinder 2! Luckily since the pistons are in similar positions, the valves hadn't dropped in 
Anyway, a late night and aching legs/back/neck from leaning over the engine all night, but it's done. "Just" need to put the cams back on and redo the timing stuff and we should be good for our first rally of the season next Friday.
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Post by dadbif on Oct 13, 2023 6:46:54 GMT
Not today, but yesterday. Had my “new” 1991 1.6 eunos V special delivered, unmolested, apart from a good clean up and refurb of the almost original seats it’s ready for a winter of supercharging goodness.
The mantle of gloom caused by a “lack of Mazda” has been lifted from my shoulders.
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Post by Zed. on Oct 13, 2023 14:09:00 GMT
Not today, but yesterday. Had my “new” 1991 1.6 eunos V special delivered, unmolested, apart from a good clean up and refurb of the almost original seats it’s ready for a winter of supercharging goodness. The mantle of gloom caused by a “lack of Mazda” has been lifted from my shoulders.  Rich. |
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Post by dickie on Oct 15, 2023 15:37:24 GMT
Hi Folks,
Todays horrid job is swapping starter motors out on the ITB Monster.
Complete pig of a job !
I have had to partially dismantle the ITBs to give enough space to get at the starter wiring.
I am fitting a Mk2.5 starter which means leaving one of the three bolts out.
Job nearly done I just need to fit the backplate / trumpets / filter and throttle cable back onto the ITBs reconnect the battery and hope it starts.
Cheers Dickie
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Post by wannabe on Oct 16, 2023 16:51:00 GMT
Not today, but yesterday. Had my “new” 1991 1.6 eunos V special delivered, unmolested, apart from a good clean up and refurb of the almost original seats it’s ready for a winter of supercharging goodness. The mantle of gloom caused by a “lack of Mazda” has been lifted from my shoulders. Is that a winter to be spent supercharging it? Or a winter spent driving it? Hope you're breaking out the waxoyl / dinitrol in advance... lol |
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Post by dadbif on Oct 16, 2023 21:00:19 GMT
Not today, but yesterday. Had my “new” 1991 1.6 eunos V special delivered, unmolested, apart from a good clean up and refurb of the almost original seats it’s ready for a winter of supercharging goodness. The mantle of gloom caused by a “lack of Mazda” has been lifted from my shoulders. Is that a winter to be spent supercharging it? Or a winter spent driving it? Hope you're breaking out the waxoyl / dinitrol in advance... lol A leisurely winter doing the job, no need for waxoyl, the underside is smothered with it. The car has never even had an advisory since it was imported. |
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Post by boggissimo on Oct 17, 2023 16:41:48 GMT
I put the camshafts back in and did all the timing stuff, so one more session to put all the other bits back together and I'll be able to start it up and see if it's less oily - replaced the cam seals as well as the valve stem seals, but didn't do the front main oil seal, so will see if the leaks come back...
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Post by dadbif on Oct 18, 2023 7:26:38 GMT
Looking over my new acquisition I found a pair of C spanner’s in the tool kit, a quick look underneath confirms it has coilovers fitted, unable to determine what make, too much waxoyl…
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Post by dadbif on Nov 4, 2023 8:02:03 GMT
The new acquisition has good vinyl roof, so, after a good clean I have anointed it with baby oil to keep it supple over the winter months.
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Post by Whistler on Nov 21, 2023 20:03:08 GMT
The new acquisition has good vinyl roof, so, after a good clean I have anointed it with baby oil to keep it supple over the winter months. Baby oil?... next you'll be giving it a shiatsu. |
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Post by atlex on Nov 22, 2023 8:49:37 GMT
The new acquisition has good vinyl roof, so, after a good clean I have anointed it with baby oil to keep it supple over the winter months. Baby oil?... next you'll be giving it a shiatsu. Oil.. from baby rubber seals. <B |
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Post by dadbif on Nov 22, 2023 8:51:24 GMT
The new acquisition has good vinyl roof, so, after a good clean I have anointed it with baby oil to keep it supple over the winter months. Baby oil?... next you'll be giving it a shiatsu. No massage required, it just works, you can always dry the excess on your hands on a friend…😜 |
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le sigh
Jul 15, 2023 20:03:52 GMT
le sigh
Jul 15, 2023 20:03:52 GMT