spanneredmonkey

ah balls! close then! if I cant get a handle asap I may have to order one for when i return to the UK

Batus wont be too bad cold but they have beer :-) , always fancied a tour there, pity they dont do chinney stuff there! Elcentro is ok, but I could have done with more than 10 days in the UK... 1060 days in ops in 7 years is taking the rip to be honest....that and a motor i love thats infested with gremlins at the mo lol!! and the Caddy is playing up...gotta love old Vw's

where are you based daves16v ? I need a drivers side kit as soon as poss but the mail system on the base has shut down till the 4th of Jan... was wondering if you were localish to me? in basingstoke?

damn and blast t6o hell!!! I had the thermostat out and it was u/s on fit, got another one, sorted now the stat on the radiator that turns the fan on is tits! and I have snapped my door handle....why oh why did i friggin decide to start this job! and to boot I have had my Afghan dates pulled forward cause some in an office in oxford-shire is a f@~Kwit, now i need to get it all tip top and shiney by tuesday!!! anyone got a repair kit for a handle or a handle thgat I vcan have off them asap in the surrey/hants area?

fairplay though I may nick the hangar keys tomorrow if this snow carries on plus its costing me a fortune in antifreeze...I wish I had a work shop manual may speed up some of these jobs!! I may get it down to under an hour for the assembly off changed and back in :-) good luck with your tomorrow! ps your refill method? top hose or reservoir?

cool will give that a try, if not its gonna be another shouting session ion the snow taking the whole lot apart to test the thermostat, which I should have done to start with! thanks for your help

yeah its a vr6, the way it pressurises is like it may be jammed or airlocked, its a pain just as i fix one thing another happens at the mo it get up to around 90 on the car guage if i leave the cap off it bubbles over the top, i was trying make sure it was bled thats when i seen the prob,

same way it came out, spring into the housing?

ok I think I have airlocked the cooling system, it warms up nic3e then the water level light comes on and i find its boiled over and chucked half the coolant on the deck. the top pipe is warm but not red hot bottom pipe is cold, anyone shed any light on it? fixed the indicators de greased satis many thanks for the tip

jhust checked now I am home the kei racing force I thought they were are different as they only come in multi fit, but the spokes stick out past the rims... need a protective bead on your tye to stop kerb rash like the falken 512 hated them

kei racing rsv... I had them on a lexus...yep cheap rubbish made mostly of cheesium

whoo hoo, after a long battle I managed to swap over the thermostat!, man thats buried...it took me ages of swearing and cursing to get that blighter out! done that and swapped the blue sensor...took less than 2 mins now she warms up straight to 90 ish bosh.... still over fueling though I have had a thought about that I disconnected my battery when I was over seas from Oct/Nov (to save the alarm draining it|)is there a procedure you need to go through for the ecu when you plug it back in? would me doing it incorrectly cause an over fueling prob?

cheers guys, I have been doing some tinkering this morning... the blue sensor starts off at about 6kil ohms, and drops to 700 ohms when hot/warm, the needle in the car struggles above 70 and stays there, even with some spirited driving on the airfield, what does the yellow one control? followed the wiring for the thermostat on the radiator, and it only seems to be connected to the battery and the fan..... does that get connected into the system anywhere else? I will have a look at the huffy indicators later, thanks for your help so far guys

well I just got back from overseas with work and my rado has got I think two sperate electrical snags 1 it takes ages to heat up the engine, it struggles above 70 and munches petrol like billyo I think I am getting about 7 mpg (i think this is the blue temp sensor.... but could do with a confirmation of this) 2 the indicators are intermittent and its killing off flasher units at a rate of knots the hazzards work all fine but the indicators work when they feel like it, anyone shed some light on any of these probs would be much appreiated

Me too lol I just bought some cheap from eBay and kinda hoping they are :-)

love them rims, nice stance!!

As an RAF aircraft tech I blagged a trade card, though it took some convincing, which I use quite a bit for consumables, but for parts I still find partco or unipart and even GSF cheaper than there for parts such as bearings, disks fuel pumps etc etc Doing my mk1 caddy I found that when you ordered the parts they would take upto 3 weeks to become available.... And to be honest the shelf monkeys at halfords in Basingstoke are rubbish on the computer, so wIting 2 weeks for a fuel pump which turned out to be the wrong one anyways..... I should and did in the end go to partco and saved 11 quid on halfords. The weakest part if the trade card is the staff, so I end up just buying items from there I can select without having to consult them.... Oh and the tool discounts are good plus their spanners don't seem to be made of cheesium, just wish cleaning products were included

I'm a airframes- engines tech on chinooks, have been for the past 10 years :-D

Good to hear you got it squared away

Good to hear you got it squared away

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I have grey leather in my nugget and there are no signs of wear, even on the bolster a little leather cream and it pops nicley

VR6 Converted 1991 valver 72,000

Try the relay, the flasher unit is the top right in on the board as you look at it in the drivers footwell

sweet cheers guys, need to source a set of vr clocks to change now :-)