project red relief

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Well yesterday I drained and flushed the cooling system out. Well an initial flush anyway. It was orange but soon cleared out, the heater matrix took longer but it went clear.

The heater now works pretty well, not super hot but pretty warm, its improving as the cars used, but it will be further flushed which will clean it out further and improve the heat output.

The radiator was taken out, blasted clean, both the fins and the indise, the temp needle now sits on the first notch instead of halfway between there and the halfway line, the engine temp can also be held there by the heaters. So thats good. A further clean out will get the rest of the crud out.

Left over night the coolant in the header tank was clear but when the hoses were squeezed or the engine run it went cloudy orange. Thats good, as it means its getting cleaner.

No pics. But I also blasted a lot of oil off of the block from the old leaky cam cover gasket problem.

Level 10 User Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 575

Are you going to be selling this anytime soon chris? Theres a chance I might know someone who would be looking for one like this. How much would you be asking?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

well how much would that someone be offering?

Level 10 User Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 575

Have a look HERE. It's just someone off cliosport looking for a car for his girlfriend - he's based near livingston somewhere and I just remembered you mentioned you might sell this one.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

well i want more than 300 for it as well! Mot'd for 11 months and taxed till nov!

Plus all the work thats gone into it.

Tell him Â£550 and mention whats been done and I will buy you a maccie d's if he buys it! lol

Level 10 User Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 575

I'll let you know what he says, as long as I get a mcflurry with my macd's Wink

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yeah i can manage that.

Still to do the cambelt and rear brake cylinder, but thats quickish if its gettign sold.

Body still needs touched up but if it will sell without me bothering then i will sell the thing.

Newbie Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Hey mate, You've been busy with this one!! Afraid its too much money for my gf but good luck with the sale and let me know if anything half decent pops up, seen some proper shitters recently!!!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

well 550 was a staring offer matey just to see if I could get it! lol

Come have a look and make an offer worst I can say is no.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Today I changed the cambelt and tensioner, flushed the coolant again and washed the beast.

Busy day.

As you can see with the arch liners removed that theres a fair bit of oil about the place. Also note the charcoal canister rubber bands and how the tags are in them! Cable tied it in which is a lot more secure anyway.

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Covers off, note oil, this all came from the cam cover gasket btw! As expected the belt was in a bad way saturated with oil and cracking.

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bottom pulley off, poor pic but you can see the oil around it.

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the covers, nice! They were thoroughly cleaned before refitting.

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After I blasted the engine done. Far cleaned and a lot more pleasant to work on! Nice new belt fitted and tensioner.

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after the clean with the new belt fitted, a lot better than the previous pic!

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Old tensioner, looks good doesn;t it! Only reason it looks so good was it was covered in oil! Had a lot of play in it

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Old belt, renault oe gates effort, dunno if its the original or not.

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No pics of the coolant flush or the car now its washed but a good day.

The car revs a lot better with the new cambelt on, timing is probably better. Quieter to.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Since the cambelt was changed the cars response is up a lot as is the performance, its also using a good bit less fuel, goes to show even slight changes in ragards to timing can feck things up.

Todays task was to slap on some girling calipers.

Girlings on, discs were not changed, already the rust lines etc have gone.

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crappy evil Bendix caliper

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Braking has improved no end as expected. Before there was no way the brakes would lock and yes they exceded the minimum standards required by the MOT test. Now the wheels lock.

Still to do the back wheel cylinder - still.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Todays task was to replace the rear brake line and wheel cylinder on the nearside.

Heres the backplate with the old cylinder removed and shoes etc removed. Had to belt the thing out with a hammer as the corrosion had gripped the old cylinder tightly.

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old cylinder off, fooked as you can see.

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Anyway due to the mess of the backplate, paint coming off and rusty where the cylinder sits I thought take it off and clean it up

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I then set about making up the new pipe. I had to make the green pipe from the copper one

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and here we are

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new pipe fitted and cleaned backplate on, not to shabby on the pipe location eh!

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cleaned back plate on, no I never painted it, its a clio run about not a show car and new cylinder on

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the back of the cylinder

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Full systems bled and brakes feel very good now. result.

And another job ticked off, only really to sort the back arches now.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

SOLD!

Level 10 User Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 575

nice one. How much did you get for her in the end?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

without the rad surround and not touching the rear arches I took Â£475.

Roughly Â£250 up on it if you don't count my labour.

Its the very 1st ad int he blue ad trader. Had a load of calls over the weekend for it both before and after it sold none today though.

Car had done about 2.2k in my mums hands in the 3 or so months we had it.

Level 10 User Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 575

not bad I suppose, given that you got a bit of use out of it as well. Did you only put it in ad-trader? Going to start advertising the 1.4 this week I think, so need to see how best to sell it.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yeah ad trader.

Only ad I put up for it apart from rsc which was a waste of time.

I had upgraded the brakes and all sorts, shouldn't have bothered my arse tbh!