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- Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Little cruise
- Replies: 5
- Views: 198
Little cruise
Took the Cav over to my sister in laws this morning, about 60 mile round trip thereabouts. It's the first time I've driven it anywhere other than locally for a couple of years, since it was laid up after the ns cv joint started to seize and I was too lazy to fix it, lol. I suddenly remember how easy...
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:27 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: Mechanical
- Topic: Hello and Help!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 574
Re: Hello and Help!
If it sounds like the battery is flat it's always worth putting a set of jump leads on it and crossing your fingers, the 8v engines were always more forgiving of overheating than the 16v ones
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Spotted on "the bay"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 252
Re: Spotted on "the bay"
refered this to my wifes cousin who does a Blues Brothers tribute act down in the Bristol area.
http://www.notthebluesbrothers.co.uk/HOME.html
http://www.notthebluesbrothers.co.uk/HOME.html
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:10 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: Mechanical
- Topic: Hello and Help!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 574
Re: Hello and Help!
As for luke warm heaters, thats usually down to a blocked heater matrix, or the thermostat being open all the time. ditto I'd look for any electrical connectors around the area of the leak and check them out. Too far gone for that I would suggest, given the OP's description of events it's cooked, n...
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:05 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: Mechanical
- Topic: Hello and Help!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 574
Re: Hello and Help!
I'd worry about why it no longer starts before you worry about the leak, which may be secondary. Can't remember offhand but the manifold is probably a heated one with water running through it and it's got hot enough to loosen a core plug. Compression test it. If it got that hot the chances are the h...
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: From contractor to full time employee...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 269
Re: From contractor to full time employee...
If you are not used to monthly sallary, then it is quite tricky for a few months, but I just ensure that none of my bills are due until 2 days after pay day. It comes in time ;) been 16 years since switching from weekly and I still haven't got it right, regularly spend the last few days of the mont...
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:26 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: 93 Cav LS - Cav Number 3 (This one will get finished)
- Replies: 1021
- Views: 38263
Re: 93 Cav LS - Run about
use a pick set, snap on used to do a set of four with different shaped ends and the hook shaped one was good for doing these
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Your opinions please.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 539
Re: Your opinions please.
I reckon you should sell it to Andrei and go buy something else, lol
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: 93 Cav LS - Cav Number 3 (This one will get finished)
- Replies: 1021
- Views: 38263
Re: 93 Cav LS - Run about
yeah, be careful not to break the clips, lol. The only tip I can give is that from memory, it is easier to attach them to the controls leaving the other ends loose, and attach the other end once it is all manoeuvred into place.
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: 93 Cav LS - Cav Number 3 (This one will get finished)
- Replies: 1021
- Views: 38263
Re: 93 Cav LS - Run about
I only ever took the panel right out if it was being replaced because they are such a git to do, everything else was keyhole surgery
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:52 am
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: 93 Cav LS - Cav Number 3 (This one will get finished)
- Replies: 1021
- Views: 38263
Re: 93 Cav LS - Run about
fibre optics designed before fibre optics were invented, lol, always were a bit ropey
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:50 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: How lucky and pleased do I feel...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 953
Re: How lucky and pleased do I feel...
trying to be genuinely niceCavalier342 wrote:So, may i ask, what are you doing on this genuinely nice owners forum?
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:43 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: stupid poxy heater panel light..
- Replies: 10
- Views: 407
Re: stupid poxy heater panel light..
or one of the legs on the bulb went in a bit scew wiff and didn't make contact properly
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: How lucky and pleased do I feel...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 953
Re: How lucky and pleased do I feel...
Cars are a means of transport, a lot of people forget that and treat them as a status symbol. I'd much rather spend my money on my house than my car
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:03 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: Satin red cav turbo
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1018
Re: Satin red cav turbo
nice easy fix too, result!
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Seeing double
- Replies: 27
- Views: 816
Re: Seeing double
Years ago, in the days before cars had any form of security, my Dad collected a car, serviced it and then got a call from the customer to ask why it hadn't moved. The keys actually fitted an identical car parked in the same street.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: Projects, Restorations and Runabouts
- Topic: Satin red cav turbo
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1018
Re: Satin red cav turbo
yes, and nodroofer wrote:did vauxhall do a cav turbo? or is it a conversion?
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: Mechanical
- Topic: Reluctant to start when fully warmed up
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1226
Re: Reluctant to start when fully warmed up
I just don't understand this "Last Trip on a Wednesday" routine... never happens at any other time. :scratch Obviously just a total coincidence, or my Mojo playing up. :wall heat expands things, probably the only time it gets hot enough to be an issue, if you are in doubt get yourself a c...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:30 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: non cavalier part identification help please
- Replies: 8
- Views: 228
Re: non cavalier part identification help please
fair enough, one of those then, lolhumbucker wrote:
i did ask the dealer, they came up with that part number but the description seems a bit off hence me asking you guys for clarification.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:17 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: engine managment light and airbag light
- Replies: 6
- Views: 372
Re: engine managment light and airbag light
ditto, lights come on with a fault code for low voltageGaz wrote:alternator.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:12 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: Mechanical
- Topic: head gaskets gone.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 573
Re: head gaskets gone.
A soft bristled (brass for example) wire brush in a drill cleans 'em up pretty quick, failing that keep flooding it with plenty of wd40 on it as you hit it with the emery as it stops it clogging and speeds up the process. I would always change a belt that was off for another reason, unless it was on...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: non cavalier part identification help please
- Replies: 8
- Views: 228
Re: non cavalier part identification help please
Lost on this one, why not ask the dealer whilst they are already talking to you?
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:20 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Car Time
- Replies: 16
- Views: 510
Re: New Car Time
Disconnect the earth and connect a lead light across the terminals, this drains down the capacitors in the system in seconds so not usually necessary to wait overnightRobsey wrote: As a point of interest, the quickest fix for most faults is the re-boot method.
Remove the battery over-night,
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Mileage.. what do you get to your tankful?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 577
Re: Mileage.. what do you get to your tankful?
all that bump starting on Wednesday afternoons I expectRobsey wrote:
Don't know how I managed that
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:12 am
- Forum: Faults and Fixes: ICE and Electrical
- Topic: Cavalier Headunit ISO Wiring
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10662
Re: Cavalier Headunit ISO Wiring
except Vauxhall and Sony seem to have a difference of opinion on which is switched live and which is battery live, lol