What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[james3024]

Spent 5 hrs cleaning

Washed chamoised clay barred polished waxed interior fully detailed

Looks better then new no pics my comp doesn't work n I post off iPad

On that iPad note does nebody have trouble with the iPad getting onto this site??

[Shyfrd]

and pretends its his, lol

This. Just spoke about the red phoon in another thread like it's his.

Yep I sneezed ours of after a run against a highly modified MPS I thought the rods were out, but it turned out hi-torque had snapped them all during some work and I must have tagged the limiter and she backfired the crossover off the TB.

Never replaced them even though they apologized and offered too , because I went with the Plazmaman kit

Dafuq?

You definitely need to upload pics after all that work james! Would look a million bucks

Edited 22/07/12 11:29 AM by Shyfrd

[james3024]

I'll take pics on iPad tomorrow and try work out how to upload off it

They won't be good quality pics but hopefully u will see the how good it looks now

It's like black glass and smoooooth as silk lol

Edited 22/07/12 11:35 AM by james3024

[Shyfrd]

Haha nice.

Download tapatalk 2 app. Click the camera icon button, choose pic from your gallery and when you select your photo it'll ask 'Tapatalk Hosted' or 'This Forum'. Choose this forum! tapatalk hosted made it do weird sh*t last time I tried that way..

[knoles]

I started work on my new sub box! 2 JL audio 13W6's goin in this baby

http://s1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii628/knoles1/?action=view&current=Newsubbox.jpg

[NVT]

Cleaned throttle body, lubed boost solenoid and then something new for me - did the idler pulley and tensioner pulley change today. Car isn't showing battery light and still steers well so I must have got the belt on properly hahaha. The hardest part was not having the correct size breaker bar. Was barely able to use a short ratchet handle of the right size to loosen old one off, but new belt was laughing at me when I tried the same to put it on. Eventually manoeuvred a much longer 1/2 inch with adapter (3/8" is it?) in there, thing was hard to get back out!

Steve,

Like Dave said, take out the fans. Two bolts on the top, then unclip the wiring harness. It pulls upwards out of 2 brackets and it makes the job so much easier.

I just used a standard 3/8 ratchet with an extension bar to loosen the tensioner. As room is limited and it can be quite hard to loosen, I just used a section of metal piping to extend the length of the ratchet arm. Made the job heaps easier.

In terms of fitting the belt, I ran the belt around all the pulleys, beginning at the crankshaft and working anti-clockwise. Easiest way to fit the belt is to thread all the pulleys then fit it over the water pump last.

By the way, she's looking good mate

EDIT: Sorry Steve, I think I misread your post. Were you saying you had difficulty replacing the belt or difficulty with the larger adaptor? Ah well, it may help someone else wanting to change it

Edited 23/07/12 12:35 AM by NVT

[james3024]

I can't get tapatalk to work how can I post pics off ipad

[Henz]

I use photobucket. Just open it in safari and copy paste img tag.

[james3024]

No work I go to upload a pic n get a black page over it already iPad is on floor now

[discostig]

Yeah Dan taking the fans out would have been far more convenient! Got it done in the end with only a slightly scraped hand hahaha. I think I slipped the belt over the power steering last (top left viewing from front) as my hand was in the way of everything else. Glad I got them replaced but might have to go back in for the water pump pulley once it gets noisy. At least I can take out the fans next time.

PS cheers, now if only I would wash the whole bay.

Edited 23/07/12 12:57 AM by -SteveR-