Towing
well on saturday the fella who is doing my intercooler piping rang me up to tell me he would be ready to begin work on my car on sunday, which is perfect timing! So i spent saturday tidying the car up and organising a tow truck, there wasnt nessesarily anything major to do on the car, just a few little things which ended up taking up the majority of my day.
I filled up the gearbox oil, engine oil, gave the brakes a quick bleed, filled up the radiator, power steering fluid, etc etc etc, all the fluids!!!
i made the stupid mistake of assuming the engine oil was completely drained before tipping about 2 liters of oil into it and checking the oil level to see that it had never been drained! So i had to jack the car back up and drain about 7 liters of oil out. which i wasnt very happy about as i had wasted half a bottle of oil and now had to head back to the auto shop to buy some more oil. my fault i guess, i shouldnt have assumed.
As for raditator fluid, i had no coolant at home and dad convinced me to just fill it with distilled water for now to make sure there were no radiator leaks and then do a complete flush and replace it with coolant later. Probably not the best idea, but i did it anyway.
the brakes are still very very squishy, remember i installed the r32 brake booster so obviously even after an initial bleed, i will still need to give the car a run and then bleed the brakes a few more times to try get all the trapped air in the lines out.
i then remounted my remote oil filter so the lines ran in a better direction as described in the previous blog. after that i refitted the bonnet and was happy enough with the engine clearance and the need to raise the rear hinges is not needed. I will however, still raise the hinges if i have cooling issues.
With the car finally off the blocks, full of fluids, and rolling again, i pushed her out onto the driverway and gave the garage a good clean. Then went out to party mwahahaha... Yea, i shouldnt have though, our cheeky neighborhood towie gerrin rocked up at 9am sunday morning to tow the car, and after only arriving home at 5a from partying i was a little, er, worse for wear haha. None the less gerrin and his mate did an awsome job at towing the car and were really good about it so massive shout out to gerrin at anytime towing :D. Here's a few pics of the car finally back out in sunlight getting a ride on the back of the flatbed:
I filled up the gearbox oil, engine oil, gave the brakes a quick bleed, filled up the radiator, power steering fluid, etc etc etc, all the fluids!!!
i made the stupid mistake of assuming the engine oil was completely drained before tipping about 2 liters of oil into it and checking the oil level to see that it had never been drained! So i had to jack the car back up and drain about 7 liters of oil out. which i wasnt very happy about as i had wasted half a bottle of oil and now had to head back to the auto shop to buy some more oil. my fault i guess, i shouldnt have assumed.
As for raditator fluid, i had no coolant at home and dad convinced me to just fill it with distilled water for now to make sure there were no radiator leaks and then do a complete flush and replace it with coolant later. Probably not the best idea, but i did it anyway.
the brakes are still very very squishy, remember i installed the r32 brake booster so obviously even after an initial bleed, i will still need to give the car a run and then bleed the brakes a few more times to try get all the trapped air in the lines out.
i then remounted my remote oil filter so the lines ran in a better direction as described in the previous blog. after that i refitted the bonnet and was happy enough with the engine clearance and the need to raise the rear hinges is not needed. I will however, still raise the hinges if i have cooling issues.
With the car finally off the blocks, full of fluids, and rolling again, i pushed her out onto the driverway and gave the garage a good clean. Then went out to party mwahahaha... Yea, i shouldnt have though, our cheeky neighborhood towie gerrin rocked up at 9am sunday morning to tow the car, and after only arriving home at 5a from partying i was a little, er, worse for wear haha. None the less gerrin and his mate did an awsome job at towing the car and were really good about it so massive shout out to gerrin at anytime towing :D. Here's a few pics of the car finally back out in sunlight getting a ride on the back of the flatbed:
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