How do you shampoo and jetwash the underneath? at a local jetwash or do you put it up on stands?
I have to say, BPSM does keep a really clean car :)
It'd be worth sorting the coolant issue. I can't live with coolant leaks in case they mask something more sinister like a headgasket. But that's my brand of Paranoia :)
I doubt the throttle body heater plate will have magically healed itself. You can get a replacement for not a lot of cash or do what most of us have done and bypass it completely by running new hose from the head (where you have taken the other photo of a leak) to the coolant expansion bottle.
I suspect it had a commercial value, judging by the speed the sparky offered to "look after it" :)
edit: I mis-remembered. It was actually some kind of transformer, or maybe rectifier. Real Frankenstein's lab type stuff :)
It's working fine, thanks :)
I'll clean/rebuild the valve block and swap them again as soon as I can.
I'm interested to see what state mine is in.
I really wish I could find the pictures I took of a piece of industrial junk we found at work. It was a mercury tilt switch from the original stand by generator. It was massive and contained about 6 litres of Mercury. Amazing glasswork and bloody heavy.
Well, after Gordon very considerately disabled this website to stop me prevaricating any further I cracked on with it.
If you can consider 4 hours to swap the valve block Cracking On.
Thank you OB for your valve block which is indeed very lovely, although some of your collets needed a little attention after the tape was removed. I dropped all the air out of the system, cleaned the inside of the EAS tray to Michelin star levels of cleanliness and changed the filters and desiccant in the dryer.
The dryer was fun. I don't have a vice so I managed to fashion an EAS Dryer unscrewing tool out of a dog lead, a 1/2" ratchet extension, a latex glove and an oil filter removal tool. Once I got in, using some powerful language, I cursed the Dunlop techs who had sealed the unit with a couple of large smears of glue on the threads.
I haven't taken my valve block apart yet but there has been no sign of the dreaded brass swarf so far. I'm taking that as good news. I did try and time the compressor while it filled the reservoir from scratch but it started to rain, then blow a gale then I realised that I had only tightened the brass nut on the blue pipe finger tight while putting the compressor back in. Curses again. It's now all buttoned up but I thought I'd let it cool down and go back to it after grabbing a snack lunch at 3pm. Not before pressing the wrong button on the Nanocom and dumping it back to access height. Ah well.
Fun!
Now I need to go and buy a crochet hook....
wow, is it really that long? I'll call it scheduled maintenance then, and feel better about it.
BPSM, I think I have to pass on Sunday :(
Orangebean has sent me a replacement valve block and I'd really like to fit it in daylight. I'm busy on Saturday.
I hope you don't mind, but I think you're probably not at the stage of needing the nanocom just yet?
Anyway, let me know if you want to meet up one evening next week.
Cheers,
Morat
HAH very good :)
I've ordered new Dessicant/dryer refurb bits for my 13 month old air dryer and a set of O rings from the supplier you PMd. Hopefully I'll be able to get this done over the next few days. At least it'll give me a good excuse to polish my collets :D
I'll be looking carefully at the dessicant as it was new last year and should be the first place to show contamination. I think...
Anyway thanks! and I'll be careful with it. I really don't need two knackered valve blocks!
All the best
Very shiny indeed. Yes please!!
Let me know what I owe you (I seem to be saying that a lot recently) :(
It might be Sunday? Mrs Morat is planning something...
Ah, I didn't see you offer! I'd much rather take the lazy option :) But if you've got one that just needs seals I'd be happy to buy it off you. I don't fancy buying one from ebay that might have loads wrong with it.
I think I'll get hold of a second hand one and rebuild that before swapping. I can't really have the car off the road for long.
The joy never ends...
But thanks for the thorough post-mortem and heads up, Marty. The failure was sudden whatever the cause. It was, subjectively, no louder than the ABS pump when it was fine. Then, at the end of a three hour drive, it activated just as we parked up and it was suddenly loud.
Valve block rebuild eh? TO THE GOOGLES!!!11111
I'm not going to trust the EAS until it is sorted :(
Why don't you message Marty and buy a kit?
Or even better, book a trip to Swindon. He has done loads of these now and I guarantee you it's worth while having someone who knows what they are doing on this job.
The Duchess has an Audi heater core, new radiator and new blend motors so if you want to compare heaters/nanocom readings we can do that sometime.
I've never called her that before... not sure I'm going to try :)