gold rover
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Filled mine from half today. Makes it feel a little less painful.
Henry_b
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Blurry 'ell ain't seen you for agesFilled mine from half today. Makes it feel a little less painful.
And yes going from 1/2 or 1/4 I find helps, never let it get too low to be honest.
But she was running on fumes so £100+ to get it to full.
So today she's still down at the back. But its not dropped from what it adjusted too when parked lastnight, (although thats what it lowered too set in motorway height) so looks like its not feeding a leak, atleast i know with another compressor and computer im not going to burn out a replacement compressor pointlessly,
cant actually see any visable cracking on the bags, both rear shocks are snapped off at the bottom another jobby but no biggie,
I also found my exhaust blow by the passanger rear wheel Im missing the left side back box
bushes on the long control arms ( i cant remember the name) look good, front balljoints feel okay, steering links feel good and no play, front anti rollbar D bushes need done, one i have noticed and call me stupid if you wish but don't these have a rear anti roll bar?
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Panhard rod at the rear. Bushes on it do go. Tends to be welded in place so will need a whizzy-gun to hammer it off.
Back from MOT Its a pass, no advisories again. 
Tester commented its a very good car. Many thanks was my reply with head held high
Tester commented its a very good car. Many thanks was my reply with head held high
Back from MOT Its a pass, no advisories again.
Tester commented its a very good car. Many thanks was my reply with head held high
I think it has almost got to the stage where they see one and realise it must have been looked after to get this far. Mine's 29 years old now but has less rust than many younger models out there.
Just back from my MOT. only 2 advisories for rear lower bushes and a bit of rust on the sills.
24 years old this month mine is. Tester says he has seen far worse cars less than half its age. He knows I look after it and appreciates that
gold rover
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Most of my time has been taken up with ensuring injured dog remains calmBlurry 'ell ain't seen you for ages
And yes going from 1/2 or 1/4 I find helps, never let it get too low to be honest.
But she was running on fumes so £100+ to get it to full.
In the days before 24hr fuel stations, I was taught by my Dad to always treat half as empty. I still do it now, as we don't have fuel stations open 24hr or even 7 days a week.Hases you missed me
gold rover
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Yep, the Golden Girl is now 22yrs old ( hell how did that creep up). She's been with me a long time now, and still getting compliments on her. Especially from those who realise the problems that the early L322s had/have.
stuu
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I dread to think the mileage id have on somthing if I had it 22 years,
stuu
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So i had a valve block at home i bought years ago for one of my old ones, i threw that on late last night, put it in extended height and used workshop compressor to fill it with air, lifted it right up pulled the battery off and was still up now over 12hours later,
Thrown it back outside and asked it to drop to normal height, front right corners still higher then the rest, so guess its out of calibration,
Did the fuel return lines looks like the intank pumps not working at all no flow through the filter with the glowplug light on,
It must have a later engine compared too my old ones plastic inlet and a maf and and egr (eeew)
Mabye a bit backwards in my process but iv not spent any thing before my holiday and its just been idle time iv been fiddling,
Im actually starting to like the brown interior too,
I now have a list to do before getting it in for an mot,
Thrown it back outside and asked it to drop to normal height, front right corners still higher then the rest, so guess its out of calibration,
Did the fuel return lines looks like the intank pumps not working at all no flow through the filter with the glowplug light on,
It must have a later engine compared too my old ones plastic inlet and a maf and and egr (eeew)
Mabye a bit backwards in my process but iv not spent any thing before my holiday and its just been idle time iv been fiddling,
Im actually starting to like the brown interior too,
I now have a list to do before getting it in for an mot,
Datatek
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I've had my MR2 for 36 years and only about 56K miles on the clock. Work cars I was doing up to 50K miles a year.
Datatek
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Just pull the vac pipe off the EGR valve at the manifold and block the rubber pipe with an M5 screw. Easy to reconnect then if needed for the MOT.
stuu
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Got the abs working,
Abs voltage at pin 1 fault,
Sure enough 2v at the brown/pink wire,
Found a brown and pink wire at the fusebox so used a lenth of new wire and checked continuity there was so it was the same wire,
Purple connector under the fuse box 2v,
Swapped out a relay
It now has running voltage and abs light distinguish over 5mph no faults logged,
Abs voltage at pin 1 fault,
Sure enough 2v at the brown/pink wire,
Found a brown and pink wire at the fusebox so used a lenth of new wire and checked continuity there was so it was the same wire,
Purple connector under the fuse box 2v,
Swapped out a relay
It now has running voltage and abs light distinguish over 5mph no faults logged,
Henry_b
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ooh poor dog what happened?Most of my time has been taken up with ensuring injured dog remains calm
Hases you missed me
And yes i missed ya
Graculus
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Can't comment on the P38 specific stuff but I have a Topdon Phoenix Xlink I use at work for 'all makes' stuff, they're suprisingly good for the money - much better than Autel (which we also have) and does lots of 'stuff' you'd expect from OEM kit.
IMO it looks like an Artidiag Pro to me - probably wrong though.
IMO it looks like an Artidiag Pro to me - probably wrong though.
stuu
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It was a phoenix nano 2024 brand new first motor it was ever plugged into my pal had so just tried it he wanted to know if it would speak too it and so did I, as far as i know you only get 2 years updates then your aswell buying another then renewing licences, it went in bcm. Srs airbag, Engine ecu. Abs, it let me in air suspension a couple of times, it says you need an adaptor for the 95-99 but it still let me in, it wouldn't let me calibrate due to no compressor so had faults logged,
The topdon artidag 800bt is the highest level device you can get with lifetime free updates and calibrated my 4.2sc,
The phoenix is bi directonal and the 800bt is a bit more limited, it would do every maintenance item on the 322,
But im going to try a 800bt on the p38 and see
gold rover
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Oh goodie at least somebody luvsies me and misses meooh poor dog what happened?
And yes i missed ya
She sliced through both tendons in hind leg
Henry_b
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ooh bloody "ell poor thing.Oh goodie at least somebody luvsies me and misses me
She sliced through both tendons in hind leg
