You are going to wish you mounted the oil coolers the other way up when it comes time to do an oil change

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Harness bars

Well it started as uprating rear torsion bars, but seeing as the bars were seized in solid it turned into a complete beam rebuild/ underside tidy up. And whilst the beam was in bits I decided to look at some camber, so I'm currently awaiting the return of my rear arms from Martin (crf450) with negative camber machined in!  whilst I'm waiting I decided to completely remove the abs as the brake lines in the beam all needed replacing, so I removed all the brake lines from the car and re routed the rears through the cabin with a Tilton brake bias valve fitted so hopefully in bout 2 weeks time I'll be ready to rock again! Can't wait although I'll have to learn to drive it again after those mods lol!

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Three degrees is what Martin is tooled up to do. Any other angle will require more work as the program for the machines would need altering I believe. I will be starting withtwo degrees on the front as that's all my topmounts allow but plan on going for 3 as money allows. If you've watched the 306 vs ringtaxi vid he's runnin 21mm bars with a 30mm arb and coilies with 450lb springs and that thing handles!! So the old girl should handle okay... Well hopefully anyway!!

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Yes his top mounts look the dogs, I think that's what I'll be after once I get the cash together, I have a few things going on at the min so all in good time!

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Aircon.

Edit... cant be aircon, looks to small, might be the charcoal canister sensor with the small vac pipes on it, goes on strut side near the cambelt cover.

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I thought the same as Birk, it's on the left hand side of this pic, by the strut.



Can't think of any other little brown plus there unless it's an indicator or something - not much by the washer bottle except aircon if it's a 6.

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Brown plug is as birk says the charcoal canister sensor, cant be anything else. Air con plug has 4 connectors in it.

You have put some work into this, wish i kept my 6 thinking of getting a Rallye if i get rid of my 106 GTi soon and start a new track toy lol. Keep up the good work mate

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Well i found the cause of the misfire, it seems i have a dodgy coilpack.
I tried changing all 4 from my other car over and it fired up instantly and sounded lovely

The list of essential things to buy is finally getting shorter, next i have to work my way through the list of shiny things

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The loom seems to be different on my other 6, just to make things awkward
I have indicators connected and all lights are working as they should, i just thought i would ask as it seemed strange that i missed that plug off when stripping the bay loom.

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Nope, the reservoir sensor thing comes through the side wall of the engine bay from memory, goes over the top of the res before plugging into the sensor there.

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Today i fitted the fire extinguisher:
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Sorted out the fans, it was a relay that had gone so i used one from a spare shroud i had and the fans work low speed then high speed just as they should when the brown temp sensor is disconnected, a nice easy fix for me

I then went about diagnosing how the oil was getting into the coolant.
I needed a 16mm hose joiner (well, didn't need one but thought it would be more ideal than blanking off both the coolant hoses), i didnt manage to get to any local motor factors in time before they shut so i tried the local gardening centre, they didnt have any either but i saw a nice watering lance thing for the end of a hosepipe, i took that over to the DIY section and measured it with one of their measuring tapes, the metal tube was 16mm so i bought one of them
I got home, hacked the thing to bits and made it into a make shift hose joiner, and simply pulled both the coolant hoses off the heat exchanger and shoved them over this short section of tube, securing them with jubilee clips.

Next i took some spare 16mm ID hose, cut it in half then pushed one end of each onto the heat exchanger, got a small empty coke bottle and cut 2 holes in that and pushed the other ends of the hose into the bottle.

I removed as much oil from the radiator as i could and started the engine.

Eventually oil started to appear in the coke bottle, telling me that its the heat exchanger at fault
[Image of an empty bottle with oil collecting in it.]


I also noticed yesterday that coolant was seeping out from round the radiator cap rather than coming out of the overflow hose, so i'm going to get a new radiator cap too as one didnt come with the new nissens radiator i ordered.

All in all i'm quite pleased with the days progress, i'm really glad its a dodgy heat exchanger and not the head gasket, so it should all be sorted by the end of next weekend.

Oh yeah, i also loctited some fresh cap screws into the inlet manifold to hold the fuel rail down, i dont fancy that happening ever again!

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Mini update time as a certain friend was getting annoyed at no updates

My new heat exchanger arrived last week, so friday evening after work i went out in the rain to fit it (bloody MOT ran out on the diablo so needed goldie to get to work on saturday ).

After work on saturday i put a couple of bottles of radiator flush in before driving home, it said to have it in for upto 6 hours and to empty it when its still warm, i left it in about 3 hours and took the car out for a little blast before draining it to get everything up to temp.

I flushed out all the old coolant and put new stuff in. For some reason i get overly anal with coolant and mix it 50/50 with deionised water. My mum works for unipart so i get a bit of discount on their parts which has started to come in quite handy

Since the coolant change there doesnt seem to be any more oil getting into the coolant.

Today i got round to removing some more excess weight, nothing major, most is in the photo below:
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I also fitted my 'TOW' stickers that i bought whilst drunk off ebay, they have grown on me and i quite like the look now
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I also fitted a new front numberplate as the last one was probably illegal with the manky lines from the 'H'.
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I fitted the sun strip the other day (another ebay billy bargain). The sun visors were all floppy and bugged me, and they were weighty so they had to come off but i hate driving with the sun in my eyes, hence the sunstrip.

I re-fitted the brown relay that i removed the other day and the electrics seem to be fine still so it can stay in

I reconnected the rain sensor wiring to the sensor so my wipers behave normally again, no more having to hold the switch to get them to move.

I re-attached the rear view mirror, my double sided tape wasn't upto the job so i have used a few blobs of silicon and held it in place with duck tape until it sets.

I think thats about it for updates now, i still need to replace the rear numberplate but gave up on it today as it was getting late.

Diablo is booked in for its MOT on wednesday so i gave both my toys a quick clean
IMG_1013 by Steve Count, on Flickr

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