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How are you getting on with this Matt? Diagrams from the previous page are gone with that hosting. I was too busy with the subframe for quixotic battle with 'award-winning' (means offered the most freebies/bungs) Minnow-tech. Hope they were without error, thought correct, derived from the original s...

Status report needed. Is it running? If so, what are the symptoms, any error codes? Thought the thinking was the 92 was routine due to failing to start, and the 93 the same? The only way to get a clean 56.1 wiring-diagram and key it seems is to haunt 2nd-hand book-stalls and jumble-sales in Australi...

The painter seemed keen on, was leaning towards yellow, I wasn't sure until I collected it if he hadn't done it that colour.
I do have a set of bushes that fit 5,347 different vehicles, just mine isn't one them.
Wondering if a red-bottom might more befit a red-top?

Thanks Robsey, Envoy. Settled a bit, but still a little bit of engine vibe, at lower rpm, vanishes once moving. Could maybe do with re-seating the downpipe sprung-joint. Seems a kind of exhausty-rasp or rattle, audible, and felt. Front feels much more taut. Hope can re-check re-torque subframe mount...

So much for Plan C. http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-20-cav-sframe-replaced-w/w2040003.jpg http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-20-cav-sframe-replaced-w/h2040027.jpg http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-20-cav-sframe-replaced-w/d2040016.jpg Old frame will probably go for scrap. Rear engine...

http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-12-cav3-subframe-new-w/r0330002-crop-900x.jpg That is the problem area, on mine, expect the driver's side to be no more or less affected on other cars, given enough time. The welds don't look great, parts left unwelded will have been left so, for good reasons,...

One option was fix the subframe, the other was replace it. With unexpectedly finding a replacement, fixing it got forgotten and seemed unneeded. Instead circumstances make doing both the best option. I just assumed the old one was toast, never looked properly. Have found it already had a patch in th...

Subframe back, blasted, painted, looks great, will have a proper look in the daylight tomorrow. A touch shiny.

It is the with-cat model. I've heard tale of putting the wire spools in a cool oven (careful of plastic part) to chase the damp out. You could pop it in once the dinner is finished cooking. Even of installing a small lamp/light-bulb under the spool permanently on, even when not in use, to keep it wa...

It's all reminding me why I was seriously looking for a Chevette, in 2019. Bonus was, it would have shared parts with the Viva. Tuning equipment was spark-plug socket, Gunson's Colortune and a big black umbrella. Some things need to be done in the dark. Buy the book, there's no substitute for a pape...

I think it is. There is so much difference between 56.1 and 56.5 we'd be better using the multec or motronic wiring diagram. ;) The crank sensor does look different for c18nz and c20ne, from xev, different again between xev 56.1 and 56.5. Cam-sensor different from xe. http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/...

A trawl through the forum has unearthed a fuzzy schematic, and via postimage a slighly higher-res one Still too indistinct in parts to distinguish wire-colour lettering, and without key-pages for it. Expect many of the P-codes to be the same thing functionally, except the actual things are quite dif...

Dropped it off for blasting, painting, 2K stuff, so won't be messy or sticky, soft, to handle afterwards.
Fitting can proceed from the latter half of next week.

http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-12-cav3-subframe-new-w/j2020001.jpg http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2023-10-12-cav3-subframe-new-w/j2020004.jpg It looks really nice, the surface-rust in the ebay pictures wasn't too flattering. Pleased -it's a good one, solid. It seems to have had some sort of...

'The Day Before You Came' by Blancmange might find a place on my ultimate 80s mix-tape/cav road-trip sounds. With it will be Kometenmelodie Part 2 by Kraftwerk, and Whispers by Visage/Steve Strange. Hate them mangling their own songs, how dare they! The mournful moaning Weller did it with his cashin...

There are shortcut ways to do all the above. Which sometimes strike you as you're doing it, which you can then add to your toolbox. So that it can be done mostly be done from the comfort of having your head in the driver's footwell. That is to disconnect crank sensor, connect feed pins 1 and 2 toget...

Feel for you Matt. I'm sure many others Robsey for certain have this problem in their minds too and are trying to think this through. I can think of a couple of people locally, for whom this stuff is their meat and drink who can out-think me, days, weeks before I've caught up. I don't touch or have ...

This is what my component tester makes of a hopefully good, new (VDO D30007, came in febi packaging) crank-sensor, pins 1 and 2.



530ohms resistance, and an inductance of 232 milliHenrys.

Subframe would be a really awkward thing to parcel up, brown paper and string might not cut it. I think we all appreciate the care that professional sellers take to package things safely for transit, the time, the materials, to protect the parts and make them safe for delivery agents to handle, carr...

Quick update: had a little bit welding done at the rear end of the n/s sill, at the back of it, just rearward of the little bracket thing that projects inward. It's well done, but temporary as the last foot, say of the n/s sill rear end is planned to be replaced in the same manner as the o/s sill wa...

The picture with the white stuff looking like shaving-foam or Santa's beard is the best laugh I've had in days. :lol: I like the front fog-look, and their usefulness, but couldn't get lamps and the thought of cutting holes in a good bumper, and of not getting them in the right places, kept it just a...

The one on its way isn't from Achse as I couldn't complete the transaction, it's from a breakers: 'auto-teile-wolfen' and just off a car so not very clean and with some surface rust. Hope to get it powder-coated, but the place here that done the wheels for me only does wheels, but can put me in touc...

That was brilliant Andy. I've got one raw, un-blasted, on its way from Germany. To be blasted, powder-coated, maybe dipped, to get inside it. Did try to contact Achse24, by email, phone and have an account on their site, with the subframe in the basket (big basket), but stumped by how to include or ...

That looks very promising Andy, cheers! I think I'll ring them tomorrow. Though it's a lot of metal to ship. Nearly bought a faulty auto-box LSi with 11 months MoT and likely nascent rust issues, not too far away, the other night. Still expecting to weld this one meantime, at least as good as it was...

Hi, Robsey. All that redundancy, but one faulty spark-plug, or lead, rare though (to ground) could stop a pair of cylinders. It would seem sensitive then to plug-gaps, variation in them, or weak sparks. It's difficult to keep in mind that the pairs of plugs are in a loop with the head itself providi...