I must have missed this, I have just brought some SS ties, hopefully this will lift this up and keep in place
What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?
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I must have missed this, I have just brought some SS ties, hopefully this will lift this up and keep in place
Seemed only right to fit one of these now that I've got a US-spec front grill (thanks again Andy):
Oil and filter changed. I must be getting better at it, only ended up covered in oil up to my wrists rather than my elbows like normal
Good clean and polish inside and out, needs waxing now but having spent the day on it im done in..
Tried to get to the bottom of my over revving at idle today. Stripped off the UIM, LIM, Air box etc and checked all the gaskets. Cleaned everything up and checked all hoses for tight fitment. Put it all back together and Hey Presto . . . . still the same! It has got me stumped at the moment, but, I will get to the bottom of it eventually.
Absolutely nothing - have instead been replacing the completely burned-out clutch in my sister-in-law's Fiesta.
I...I kind of feel the need to go out and hurt a random stranger now.
I...I kind of feel the need to go out and hurt a random stranger now.
heh ,take it that pinch bolt let go then...was it a gearbox out job then.
sorry i couldn't help much today mate ,melina's got grumbling front wheel bearings and i think the driveshafts turning ugly too. gonna be stripping that tomorrow..and then ended up buying a car(KA) for sophie. her first car
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well thats just weird...was sure it was the lim leaking...its gotta be getting excess air in somewhere..could it be the throttle gasket leaking...the idle air does go round the back of this
........ended up buying a car(KA) for sophie. her first car
Paul, if it's a Mk1 KA I've got a breaker languishing at the bottom of the garden if you need any odds and ends.
Lovely day here on the south coast so I decided to give her a good clean, always find it strangely comforting rubbing a cloth over the boob shaped domes on the headlights......think I need to get out more
Pmsl....yeh, you really do lol!!!
heh ,take it that pinch bolt let go then...was it a gearbox out job then.
sorry i couldn't help much today mate ,melina's got grumbling front wheel bearings and i think the driveshafts turning ugly too. gonna be stripping that tomorrow..and then ended up buying a car(KA) for sophie. her first car
Not at all mate, it was just great to have someone to talk to about it! In any case it was a total success... once we learned the trick do bleeding that particular type of slave cylinder!
Frankly I would rather have been helping you!
well thats just weird...was sure it was the lim leaking...its gotta be getting excess air in somewhere..could it be the throttle gasket leaking...the idle air does go round the back of this
Especially since pinching the pipe that leads to the IACV forces the revs to settle down...
I agree
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I would have come and helped you if you'd said!
Pics, or it didn't happen.*
*Absolutely not shamelessy fishing for shiny shiny pics of the car, no Sir, not me...
You have missed something Paul. We changed the IACV with a known good one and it made no difference.
I think that what was going on there, was that pinching the pipe starved the IACV of air that it was attempting to let through. You could actually moderate the idle by increasing or decreasing how much you pinched it.
Coupled with the fact that we tried this with the IACV from Paul's car, what that suggested to us was that there was a downstream air leak, and there was definitely a hiss audible near Cyl5.
TBH - and to be fair I haven't entirely been keeping up with exactly all that Dick has done - I'd have the UIM and LIM off, check all mating surfaces for cleanliness and evenness and then use a new set of gaskets straight out of the packet.