Ayresys Workshop Thread :)

[sprogthedog]

You had to do a cam belt change on one of them yet?

Did my first one last week. Great fun.

 

[200tdi ayre]

You had to do a cam belt change on one of them yet?

Did my first one last week. Great fun.

no and i don't particularly want to id do it body off if i had to though

stupid D3's

 

[sprogthedog]

no and i don't particularly want to id do it body off if i had to though



stupid D3's

The front belt isn't too bad, just time consuming.

The rear belt that runs the injection pump is a right laugh.

 

[200tdi ayre]

The front belt isn't too bad, just time consuming.

The rear belt that runs the injection pump is a right laugh.

Yeah the front belt would be fine, the rear belt on the other hand !! New cars are just getting harder and harder to work on. Not just landies.

 

[owl]

We pull the plastic wiring loom channel out now to do the rear belt especially on D4, gives you a bit more room to get your hands in and saves taking the body off.

 

[200tdi ayre]

We pull the plastic wiring loom channel out now to do the rear belt especially on D4, gives you a bit more room to get your hands in and saves taking the body off.

Yeah that would help

Id probably do 1 with the body off so I know where everything goes before doing one completely blind

 

[200tdi ayre]

This 90 has apparently had a professional rebuild




Spot the air filter ....

 

[james6546]

This 90 has apparently had a professional rebuild




Spot the air filter ....

At least servicing will be cheaper

 

[discomikey]

pint on friday night required my old mucker. dropped by this last friday but you were on a jolly. almost made it back down for hull in time on sunday too but couldnt be arsed by that time haha, get your light out the pipe?

 

[200tdi ayre]

pint on friday night required my old mucker. dropped by this last friday but you were on a jolly. almost made it back down for hull in time on sunday too but couldnt be arsed by that time haha, get your light out the pipe?

Done haslam wants to come out too !! We never went sunday anyway so you didn't miss much

Yeah after alot of ****ing about managed it .... stupid small torch

 

[200tdi ayre]

Covered my chassis with 5ltr of old engine oil today










Shame it was at 50mph



Bloody cyclone filter cover came off somehow ??? I noticed before the loght came on though so cant be too bad. Fixed it and filled back up and seems to be fine ....

Time will tell

 

[gemsdad]

Covered my chassis with 5ltr of old engine oil today










Shame it was at 50mph



Bloody cyclone filter cover came off somehow ??? I noticed before the loght came on though so cant be too bad. Fixed it and filled back up and seems to be fine ....

Time will tell

bloody so called mechanics,they know feck all about servicing or repairing vehicle correctly.:behindsofa:

 

[200tdi ayre]

bloody so called mechanics,they know feck all about servicing or repairing vehicle correctly.:behindsofa:

What do they say never buy a mechanics car :doh:

Apparently its fairly common just abit of a bastard

 

[gemsdad]

What do they say never buy a mechanics car :doh:

Apparently its fairly common just abit of a bastard

just jestin ayresy.yes i have heard of problems with the filter,but one's that have jammed but never coming loose.Hope it has not done any damage.

 

[200tdi ayre]

just jestin ayresy.yes i have heard of problems with the filter,but one's that have jammed but never coming loose.Hope it has not done any damage.

Yeah ive heard of them jamming

Ive bolted straight through the housing now with a nyloc underneith (bit of a bitch to get to) but itll never come off again now


Yeah me too

 

[gemsdad]

Yeah ive heard of them jamming

Ive bolted straight through the housing now with a nyloc underneith (bit of a bitch to get to) but itll never come off again now


Yeah me too

ok,let us know if all is ok.

 

[aaronmorris]

Yep, Housings are only ally so stripped threads are easy done if you just wang it up tight.
As you say not going to come off now

 

[200tdi ayre]

Had a play tonight with wheels. I had a hunch our D4 alloys would fit my D2


And they do !!

And it looks awesome



Shame my disco alloys dont fit over the D2 brakes


Which got me thinking ... if the wheels fit and the stud pattern is the same... will the brakes fit ? As this would be a preety awesome brake upgrade

Well ths discs fit on the bolts and are a assive improvement over the D2 brakes and you can see here how much bigger the carriers are and so how much bigger the brakes are



Couple of problems though the disk sits over the bolts fine but isnt a tight fit on the centre this can be overcome with a spacer though



And because the D2 disc has a deeper dish there is a gap between the bolt holes for the carrier and the D4 carrier



This could be a bonus for a fitting kit though as the holes dont line up between the carrier and the D2 holes due to the size differnce so an adater can be made to make it fit.

I don't know if it would be a cost effective or overly useful mod but there must be applications for increased braking performance ?

I wonder what D3 brakes are like in comparison ?? Hmmmm

 

[200tdi ayre]

Changed my front pads anyway as they were abit low


Had the other side off last week when we did new brake lines to the back and they looked fine so never looked too closely at this side but they weren't as good as the N/s so both fronts have been changed

1 less thing to do before morroco

 

[Paul D]

Like the idea of larger discs, dunno ho wmany people would actually buy it though ..

At least your pads are wearing evenly ..