Orangebean wrote:
K Seal or one of it's cousins would be my bet. Did I miss a picture somewhere BPSM?
And that would no doubt mean a new water pump if it is?
any idea what the brown glitter stuff on my filler cap might be? Can't see it in the water but was on the inside of the cap and the tank threads. Looks exactly like copper slip.
PM sent to Morat.
Out and about for about 50 minutes earlier. Heating was definitely hotter. Almost what i'd expect. Strange. Possible blockage as Orangebean said? Might get round to a flush tomorrow.
LOL. Okie dokie.
Was gonna make some calibration blocks using a guide i found. Did you make yours?
On my tartarini, there's an option for 'enrichment during acceleration'. Don't need to alter the map. You not have that?
Definitely meet up. Could check my blend motors are calibrated and can stick the heating on in yours to compare.
Got an evening in mind?
£100 to take off arms, remove old bushes and press new ones in.
Hence why i'm now going the poly route for anything else. Bit dearer to start with and faffing about on my part, but i get the satisfaction of doing it myself and if there's a cock up, i'll know about it straight away.
Do i follow Rave for removing the trailing arms or is there a streamlined procedure? Rave says about deflating the Suspension
Oh. The sceptic in me fails again. Lol
Thats a good price then if you didnt wanna mess about with removing the old bushes.
Saying that, once i've removed them, im able to relace the polys easier next time should the need arise. Will save me a few quid in garage charges not having to press new ones in the future. At least doing it myself i can be sure its done right. Been burned a few times now. Garage on the corner was good but it was £100 for the front radius bushes to be done.
New bushes ordered. Can't see that panhard coming complete with bushes Orangebean so i've gone for the same polys that i fitted on the front.
Since this thread was originally about my tracking i'll update the state of play. When it went to the garage, the steering wheel was centre and the steering box was centre. After the radius arm bushes had been done (again), steering wheel had moved off centre to between 10 and 11 o'clock. Only thing that was removed was the passenger balljoint for the trackrod which was then swung out of the way to get the arms off. Track rod wasn't adjusted and it went back on no bother. Garage man suggested that the bushes that he took out were that bad that although the box was centered and the steering wheel was centered, the steering still wasn't actually centered as it was bent out of shape or strained in some way. Now with new bushes, it's relieved any tension or whatever and relaxed the wheel to where it actually wants to be. It does drive straight now and the resistance from left to right feels the same. Just need to get a spanner on the draglink and straighten the wheel which i forgot to do today whilst i was doing the panhard rod bushes. And since doing the panhard rod bushes, it's improved once again to the point where i reckon it might be fixed. Only trouble now is that you can really feel the difference between the front and back end which on investigation shows up that the rear bushes are also fubar.
If i end up taking the new matrix route and do the Audi mod, am i correct in reading that the pipe from the matrix would be 5/8 and then need an adapter to step it up to 3/4 for the under bonnet connection?
And is this the correct relacement Audi core?
i did think as much.
Pointless fiddling with it now though i guess, since leaking o-rings trumps the lot.
That panhard rod definitely comes with bushes in? Doesn't say in description
think it's Corfu in winter. lol
Tis looking through the dash at drivers side too the heater matrix pipes. The bright white bit is corrosion where the pipe is going into the matrix.
sadly it's not the chassis ones on the front.
It's the rear trailing arms. Have cracks in them and what look to be holes.
Rear panhard doesn't look up to much neither. A quick poke with a screwdriver moves it.
Might aswell do it all.
Panhard bushes done. Right nightmare getting the old bushes out. Poly bushes went in no bother with a G-clamp and a couple of sockets.
Been told about 3 months ago by garage that my rear bushes were fine. Guess what!!!!!!
Onward to ebay for more bushes.
Passenger sensor didn't appear to be Linear anymore. So i've swapped both the fronts around.
Well i'm not sure if this would cause slightly colder heating but i think it's safe to say that my O-rings have begun to leak. FFS.
No point in faffing about with it then is there. Might aswell cut to the chase.
Could be the EAS lid. Mine was vibrating and made more noise than the compressor. Little bit of foam wedged under the lip tightened it down.