1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - starting to update the profile...

Post by **Donald** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:46 am

Yeah but they're stuck at ground level whilst ducks soar to new horizons. All about perspective

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:35 pm

Donald wrote: ducks soar to new horizons.

Yes, straight into the chinese takeaway; oh hang on, that may apply to cats too.

Post by **Donald** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:35 pm

Nice bit of squirrel.

Post by **Doggo** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:08 pm

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OK it's not relevant.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:11 am

Yep, Drax as newkid says, pretty easy.

You need to remove the centre console surround (and at least pull it forward clear a bit, then there are 2 screws under the front you can see and need to remove.
You also need to pull your stereo out, because there's 1 other screw underneath, in the middle towards the back. There are 2 loom plugs underneath on the right hand side. After that, the whole vent/a/c controller unit just pulls out (there are spring clips under the dash top).

Why does yours need swapping?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:58 pm

Swapped this;

For this (because it's marginally better and I had it laying around);

It's only a temporary thing anyway, because there is something else planned to go on...

In the process, I discovered that for some reason the manifold is painted blue

And finally getting round to doing some servicing on it.
Changed the coolant (exciting!).
The old stuff looked like this;

It's a mix of red and green coolant with a very thin oily film

(not properly flushed when it was changed from one to the other before by the looks and...)

The bottom of the expansion tank had this sludge in it;

Nice!

Nothing at all wrong with the engine now, but I'd say at some point in the past there's been some pretty nasty oil ingress to the coolant and the system wasn't properly flushed after the problem was fixed, just had the coolant changed.

Anyway, I flushed it through with clean water, filled it with water, ran it up to temp, drained again and then refilled with 50/50 mixture. I'll change it again in a month or so.

Oil needs doing next weekend and in the meantime, it's started playing up

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:51 am

Not good, what's happening?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:01 am

Cuts out on start when cold. Not bothered looking into it yet.
Alternator also on the way out I think.

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:39 am

Bizarre blue manifold!

I used silver alloy wheel paint on my exhaust manifold cover and it still looks good

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:11 pm

Quick update - I've not driven this one much this year, Lisa has been using it, but I had a quick spin in it a few weeks ago and it felt a bit heavy on the front brakes.

Err.. Yep. That's as bad a set of rear brakes as I've seen on a lude

Bad timing though - bloody MOT has just run out, so that's another one off the road for now

I am actually road going lude-less at the moment

Lude Generation

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