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- Fri May 10, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
The difficulty before was fitting the headlamps would push the rubber strip back off again, no regrets about glueing them, think I used (useless here) contact adhesive last time. Headlamp glass bottoms and between indicators/headlamps, were right mucky too. The indicators, it gets under the outer le...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
All that code stuff is voodoo to me. That sort of stuff was my "bread and butter" for more than 40 years, so sad to say it made sense to me :) You might have noticed then that you do not need to backslash escape the literal dot in the replacement string as I did, as you must in the first ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
Been tackling some of the moss and algae building up in places, on the sunroof seal and along the tops of the door and window seals. Greenish or faded door handles, rubbing strips and stuff. Used neat screenwash and a toothbrush as well as a wetted cloth. Finished them with Bono Black bumper recondi...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Your non-Cavalier Projects
- Topic: The Wife's Vectra-C - The other battle wagon
- Replies: 254
- Views: 94085
Re: The Wife's Vectra-C - The other battle wagon
At least it's running, I thought it wasn't still. The cold and damp can play havoc with connections, a good bake and airflow in the summer sun might help.
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Your non-Cavalier Projects
- Topic: The Wife's Vectra-C - The other battle wagon
- Replies: 254
- Views: 94085
Re: The Wife's Vectra-C - The other battle wagon
Excellent news, was worried for you. What was the issue or fixed it in the end?
UPDATE: Just realised I didn't read the top part of your May 6th post, just seen all the errors below that and thought aaargh!
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Why are interviewers so rude?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2379
Re: Why are interviewers so rude?
These threads drifting off-topic from car stuff, are a lure to be avoided. There was an error, as always with things rushed off. Both timescales: millions and a quarter million work for the general point, but the shorter is a better match. There is a balance between the collaborative and the competi...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Why are interviewers so rude?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2379
Re: Why are interviewers so rude?
I'm finding when you ring Call-Centres, Customer-Contact-Services etc. that the person you end up talking with does not have the maturity or experience, intellect, to distinguish your use of the word 'you' to them, referring to the company, organisation, council or whatever, in criticism of their po...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
Hi, Robsey. I still haven't sorted hosting, thought a cPanel type account a bit excessive for just picture hosting. Have it all backed up with the directory structure retained so should be easy to re-instate the older stuff, broken image links could be fixed server side with something risky like: fi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
Better update this. Have a little bit at the end of the n/s sill and n/s rear arch outer and little bit of n/s inner arch to do, as soon as the weather improves. Already have the sill panel and arch repair section cluttering up the place. Paint is the good stuff again, should match well, fingers cro...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:09 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:37 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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?
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?
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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,...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:21 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
Subframe back, blasted, painted, looks great, will have a proper look in the daylight tomorrow. A touch shiny.
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: M Plate 1.8LS Saloon
- Replies: 464
- Views: 126270
Re: M Plate 1.8LS Saloon
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...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:08 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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/...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:57 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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.
Fitting can proceed from the latter half of next week.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: My Little 1.8LSi
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53911
Re: My Little 1.8LSi
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...
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:36 pm
- Forum: The Discotheque
- Topic: Three 80s acts in one concert... ish.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2933
Re: Three 80s acts in one concert... ish.
'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...
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 30452
Re: x20xev crankshaft sensor problems
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...