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Tom_K

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Well I can see you're all mightily impressed by my thread :lol: but I thought I'd let you all know it passed it's MOT the other day with some very flattering comments from the tester :teeth:

I'll update with some pictures of the most recent work soon; window motor re-build and central locking fixed.

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Stu,

Yes! Sounds crazy but I really had high hopes. Youtube it and you'll see.

Either way though, it didn't work lol

 

Sargara,

Yes, replaced the dual mass with a single mass from CMS. Feels completely fine, no untoward noises as far as I can hear and revs more freely too.

The only thing is has done is accentuate my already slightly noisy gearbox.

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  • 3 months later...

Update time!!

 

Now I've got a new laptop and I'm using imgur to save/upload pictures, I can finally enlighten you all to the work I've been doing over the last few months.

 

So it all started off with taking the car to get the tracking done and finding the rear camber bolts were all pretty seized. I figured then was a good a time as any to strip everything down and clean it all up.

Any rust was ground down, treated and then painted.

 

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At that point I realised I wasn't going to get the results I wanted without removing the subframe completely, so that happened:

 

 

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Everything that came off got de-rusted, painted and filled with wax:

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I tried a product called 'evaporust' to soak things in and I have to say, it worked brilliantly!

I broke a few clips and snapped a bolt, and after calling the dealer, got everything ordered but couldn't get a certain nut apparently, so I had to get creative to save it:

 

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....then it turned out they could get it, so that was a waste of time.

 

More painting of things and making of gaskets:

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Finally, painting the underside and putting it back together:

 

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Once that was all done, I filled every possible box section with bilt hamber cavity wax.

 

And there you have it! Nobody will ever see any of it lol, well, apart from you guys.

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Thanks guys.

 

Stu, you're right, it is a peace of mind thing and even though it's a weekend car, I don't mind taking it out in the rain because it's all protected now.

 

Strudul, I used a Bilt Hamber Hydrate 80 to treat any rust (after it was ground back) and then used some unheard of brand paint tbh. I bought this paint to spray some bits of metal in the garden and found it was really good! Luckily I had a load of it left so I used that. It's actually a hammered finish very dark anthracite colour.

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  • 7 months later...

Afternoon all.

 

Time for another update; this was all done at the same time but I'll try and split it up by job.

So first off, the strut tops had some light surface rust, which on a G35 isn't covered by a strut brace, so I set about sorting that. Everything ground back, treated, primed and painted:

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While I was doing that, I tidied up various brackets:

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Then finally, something I've been meaning to do for a while; repair a dent / scuff.

 

The previous owner had scuffed this corner previously, had it repaired by the likes of a smart repair tech and them promptly scuffed the same point again and given up.

As it had already been repaired, I thought I couldn't make it any worse! So figured I'd try sorting it:

 

First I filled the dent in the wing and the heavy scuffs on the bumper, then primed and sanded then both separately.

To make sure all the surfaces were covered, I painted them both off the car, then mounted them to paint them in the same orientation and hopefully get a better match.

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I'm yet to buff it all but fingers crossed!

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Nice work so far

 

I commented on this thread last summer, didn’t plan on getting one but I’ve just imported one from Japan. Still waiting on a few parts coming for the mot before I can get it registered 

 

Photobucket has lost all your previous work, do you have a recent photo of it to remind me?

 

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Ah, seems like photobucket doesn’t need like too many people viewing through embedded links. The last batch have been through imgur, I’ll have to re-upload them.

 

I’m replying on my phone right now, which is painful, but we’ll need to talk more about how your importing goes! I’m very keen on getting something over but have no experience of doing it.

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  • 3 months later...

Bit of a late update on this but just to keep this thread alive and show the car is still being worked on; I replaced the spark plugs and found it was a good thing to do as the ones that were in there were ~5mm too short. So now it's at least got the correct items in:

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Once that was done, I gave the engine bay a nice spruce up:

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Thanks Davey. The only part of the underbody that's left is the middle basically, so at some point I'll get the skirts off, remove various bits and complete it all.

 

I'm not sure if it's a placebo but I'm sure it feels a little 'sharper' with the new plugs.

 

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Well I've lived with a few noises the old girl has been making for a while now and decided to look into them.

 

First off, there was a noise coming from the front that I suspected might be the drop links. So I removed them, tied the ARB out of the way and went for a test drive to confirm. The noise was gone so that's a new pair of drop links needed:

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Next up was a recent development; an exhaust heat shield rattle. Now, I'd already secured all the heat shields but one was still clinging on to the original weld...well, not anymore, so that was fixed:

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Also, the aux belt has started squealing so a new one of those is also on the list.

It's also due for a service, even though I don't do many miles in it, so the shopping list is as follows:

New front ARB drop links

New aux belt, maybe even tensioner

Fresh oil and filer

Maybe some new PAS fluid while I'm at it. Anything special needed here?

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Right, time for another update.

Oil service (plus a magnetic sump plug), coolant replaced (rad only), PAS fluid replaced, new belts and arb drop links:

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Coolant was definitely due:

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As were the belts!

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I drained the PAS reservoir, then filled it back up again instead of undoing a line on the rack and emptying the entire system. I've got enough fluid to slowly 'purge' the system by sucking the reservoir dry and replacing with new fluid a couple of times.

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New drop links:

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And lastly, a poor picture of the sump...just to finish things off:

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