70K Things To Do

[gkors]

my bf mk2 turbo has hit 70K.

It has previously been serviced by Byrne Fraud so im certain nothing has been done to it besides an oil change and windscreen wiper fluid top ups....

Going to do it myself from now on they are just such a bunch of pricks there will never be going back.

Just getting a list of things to do can anyone suggest anything else, there are no problems slight squeak on startup think the belt just wants doing.

Will be doing.

Serp belt

Engine, Diff, Gbox oil

Fitting earls Kit

TB cleanup

Injector cleaner worth doing?

then a new fuel filter

has a K&N airfilter that's easy

retorque exh manifold, same with intake??

P/S fluid?

Coolant and brake fluid, pads/discs all ok

Spark plugs worth doing?

Anything else that is suggested, appreciate it.

[Jake F6]

WD40 solenoid maintenance is worth doing too, along with clutch fluid change for manuals.

4.5l of synthetic Castrol Transmax Z in the manual gearbox.

1.5l of 90w-140 mineral oil in the diff.

[Jake F6]

Spark plugs won't need doing and injectors should also be fine.

[gkors]

thanks mate, got a belt from fraud.

Its the 6 speed auto box

nulon 85-140 LSD ok for the diff?

Solenoid?? wheres this on

Don't think I'll be doing too much this weekend took me 2 hours to find the workshop manual, bloody safe places

Edited 20/08/11 01:05 AM by gkors

[Wenier]

The boost solenoid. It is located down between the engine and the battery if yours is still in the normal place, clip it is attached to is held on by 1 bolt and it has 3 lines connected to it if I remember rightly. There is a sticky how to thread in the turbo section I believe.

[gkors]

Got the diff oil done and belt done today spent 4 hours driving from supercheap to bursons to repco, need a new tensioner bearing will try and get one off fraud.

While under the car swearing at the fuel filter, gave up didn't get it off noticed the inside edge of my front tyres with a split to the canvas

What the F*@$ is this from?? there is about 1 inch on the insides of both front tyres that is bald there is still heaps of rubber left on the tyres. what is this from I can f*cking bet its from the way the dickheads have done the alignment at ford, these good tyres fk452's are f*cked now and no I haven't been throwing it into the corners. The last set wore perfectly im fairly sure there was an alignment done when I got the new tyres about 20K ago

car is not going anywhere.... :crybaby:

[Jake F6]

Which diff oil did you end up getting? The Nulon 85w-140 should reduce the diff clunking.

[gkors]

put some penrite sin80 in it, supercheap sold out, bursons were closed by about 5 min of me getting there so went to repco.

black sh*t came out of it.

[Smoke them tyres]

While under the car swearing at the fuel filter, gave up didn't get it off noticed the inside edge of my front tyres with a split to the canvas

What the F*@$ is this from?? there is about 1 inch on the insides of both front tyres that is bald there is still heaps of rubber left on the tyres. what is this from I can f*cking bet its from the way the dickheads have done the alignment at ford, these good tyres fk452's are f*cked now and no I haven't been throwing it into the corners. The last set wore perfectly im fairly sure there was an alignment done when I got the new tyres about 20K ago

The front lower control arm bushes are shot, particularly the front ones. Replace them with poly ones. The wear is caused by the std rubber bushes compressing under braking load. The inevitable toe out under braking will wear the tyres like this in short order. I would also get the upper control arm bushes replaced whilst you are there.

Careful what oil and quantity you put in the ZF....Castrol Transmax Z is the go.

Power steering....Mobil 454 is the correct oil.

Castrol SAF-XA is what I would be running in the diff. I also add some Nulon auto treatment (G60) in there to give it some extra shear strength. The auto treatment will not hurt the clutch pack inside the diff and will eliminate 2 things:

-any chatter on tight turns

-the need to buy the overpriced Lubrizol additive from Ford that they say these diffs should run

Edited 20/08/11 09:24 AM by Smoke them tyres

[Wenier]

And also with the standard bushes the alignment should be set toe in so at highway speeds it goes to neutral rather than toe out. But age of bushes and all you probably need new ones.