Gayno's 4th Gen

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:05 am

Ahh no more annoying little noises

I currently have two of those and they're doing my nut in!

I can only imagine your relief

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:56 am

That's great news, you must be buzzing. I love driving my lude even with all its issues but without them I'd be in heaven!

honda-hardy wrote:can i ask you how much you paid? im looking to get my 3rd looked over. pm if you want.

I too am interested to hear what you paid to get this work done. My car could do with a good checking over by someone who knows the Prelude well, and I hear Richy at PAW is the best. Just need a ball-park figure so I can start saving up.

Post by **Gayno** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:07 am

TBH with all the niggles recently, I'd sort of fallen out of love with it, the car became irritating to drive.

Now though, it's like brand new, engine good, noise gone, gearchange smooth, suspension feels tight!

Post by **Gayno** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:23 pm

First weekend of good weather this year, and what do I do? Work on the car of course!!

I'm putting it back on the road at the start of March so just starting to get it ready.

Have raised the coilovers (I know, but it was too low, and exhaust was catching on everything!) by 7mm, so still lower than before I had the coilovers.

Reattached sideskirt which had been hanging off for most of last year!

Have removed the wipers and scuttle panel ready for the windscreen removal.

Removed heater blower fan which seems to have seized. I may need to source a new one if I can't repair it.

I removed the interior carpet a few weeks ago due to the water ingress, this is now dry in my shed, and will stay there until the windscreen has been refitted.

Post by **Gayno** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:48 pm

Today I've had the windscreen removed and rebonded.

Unfortunately no pics during the work as I'm in work.

Once he'd removed the screen, found quite a bit of surface rust on the bonding surface. As I'm not at a point right now to fully sort this out, the guy did a very good job rubbing it back to clear most, and then primered the entire area to help prevent it coming back too quickly.

Windscreen was the cleaned up and primered, then once all dry refitted onto the car using all new windscreen surround clips.

So hopefully this is the end to my water leak woes, and now the surround sits properly around the screen it looks so much better.

Gayno = a happy man today

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:54 pm

How much was it?

Post by **indigolemon** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:56 pm

No to pee on the parade man, but most primers are hydroscopic. You might want to get some sort of top coat on there to seal it!

Post by **Gayno** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:58 pm

Merlin wrote:How much was it?

£60

indigolemon wrote:No to pee on the parade man, but most primers are hygroscopic. You might want to get some sort of top coat on there to seal it!

Ah well, it was only surface rust, and now its out of sight

Just don't have the budget for proper restoration at the moment.

Post by **Donald** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:04 pm

Might get my windscreen friend to do this, my seal is looking a bit tatty and I get wind noise from somewhere.

Post by **indigolemon** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:05 pm

Gayno wrote:
indigolemon wrote:No to pee on the parade man, but most primers are hygroscopic. You might want to get some sort of top coat on there to seal it!
Ah well, it was only surface rust, and now its out of sight

Just don't have the budget for proper restoration at the moment.

No worries, know the feeling! As long as you know

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