Had a hectic couple of days, was going to have a couple of scratches looked at yesterday but instead my car decided not to start. Not even a clicking relay or anything! Eventually traced it to the 'fixed' starter motor cable from the loom, got the car started and had to just bring it home and dump it on the drive, strip everything out and remove the offending piece of snapped spade connector from the terminal
While the car was stuck on the drive I decided it would be a good time to whip off the EGR for a clean out. What a ba5tard that turned out to be!
This is the inlet side before cleaning...
...and after cleaning...
And the outlet side before cleaning (huge amount of crud!)...
And after cleaning...
Looks much better, but unfortunately mu inlet manifold has the same depth of crud inside it as the outlet side of the EGR valve and ideally I need to get that off and clean it as well. I just don't have the pathience/double jointedness to do this from above the car and no stands or anything to do it from underneath!
So this morning I've had to snag a lift off my dad's girlfriend to run me to a scrappy and get the original connector required so that the job could be done properly. Managed to find the right part (at scrapyard discount price
) and got myself home to fit the new cable, used a crimp connector and a couple of layers of electrical tape and the car started first time and started repeatedly several times before I risked moving it. Touch wood this is now sorted
I did notice however that there was an opening in the bell housing and I could actually see some form of cog
I've been advised this is the flywheel and they remove a bung from here to check the timing when doing the belt change, does that seem right?
I've also been to have the scratches looked at, had this and another one similar on my rear bumper:
And this down the rear quarter...
I asked a guy at a local valeting place and he managed to polish out the one on the rear quarter panel almost completely
He said he couldn't do the same to the bumper though as it was plastic (was using a rotary/DA?) - excuse my mug in the reflection
Looks much better though and I'm hoping some SRP or a visit to see the owner of the place I went to today might
help me get rid of the other 2 bad scuffs...anyone have any advice?
That's all for now, got some wrap today to get a couple of bits done and my engine cover and battery cover have dried nicely so will get those on soon too
as always all comments welcome!