Oooh, saucer of milk for you

Video/slideshow I have slung together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5MLitfq_II&list=UUgPvKNcAdsX7aKQEgYNGw7Q

Why didn't you rotate compressor housing on turbocharger to avoid that 180 degree pipe? Is some hose of coolant in the way or something else?




Keep up the good work mate!

Good idea to rotate housing but until I decide which cooler i`m using the pipework is just a rough guess made of bits I have lying around.

Also I don`t know how to rotate housing yet, is it a simple matter of removing the water pipe to rad., undoing 6 bolts, rotate housing and replacing bolts/pipe?

Thank-you for the ideas and support.

Yeah, it's dead easy, in theory. Don't touch any of the oil or water pipes, undo the bolts on the comp housing, then rotate the housing. The only thing is that you'll need to relocate the waste gate actuator.

I say it's easy in theory because the little buggers can be stuck and a spanner isn't quite man enough.

Keep up the good work

I will be replacing the oil feed and return, hoping to get a carbon heat shield for the return pipe at the weekend - if I can afford it.

Water pipe to rad. might get customized, i`ve got into the wiggins fittings in a big way. They aren`t cheap but you only live once. I need to be able to weld aluminium and I need a lathe, then I can make real progress.

Weather is rubbish but i`m going out to look into this now, might manage a project update later tonight.

Thank-you for the info.

I didn`t finish but managed to whip the housing off.
Thank-you to you both, what an easy mod. which I wouldn`t have otherwise attempted.

Hello starkness bye u-bend....

My uncle died at 7.30 this evening.

Having a break from frivolity as a mark of respect, back soon.

I have to travel tomorrow to the funeral on Wednesday.

Hoping to get back to work on the car this weekend.

Wouldn't paint thinners be better to remove the overspray?

Thinners would work but care would be needed to prevent the plastic from softening. There is a tough primer under the red also.

I can just pour on Nitromethane, leave for 5 minutes and then remove completely with scotch type washing up cloth.

In fact I started already using the nitro as it damages my p.p.e. less than brake fluid would and cleanup is also easier.

Will update project with results later.

Sorry I have also placed this in the "project thread", but I use oven cleaner for these jobs.

I`m proud to say that i`ve never cleaned the oven so no oven cleaner in stock, but handy to know of products that work.

I have seen projects where the owner just resorted to black paint on an area like this as they didn`t know how to get rid of the overspray so....

Re rear under arch rust, comparing my coupe with my marea, it seems that the coupe rusted at the seam where the bottom edge of the arch liner finishes.
Looking at the marea a which has no rust at all in the same seam, and it doesn't have an arch liner at all.
I'm surmising that the lower edge of the arch liner, being so close to the seem, collects mud and road cr@p and holds it against the not so well protected seam which then leads to rust. If it had just gone another couple of inches further down it would have protected the whole area.

An awful lot of the seam sealant has not covered the joints properly, like there was some jig alignment issue at the factory.

Good info. Steve, your analysis of the problem may be more accurate than mine as in all honesty I am currently unable to fully inspect the area and my thoughts are only based on what I have seen of the spread of corrosion at the four mounting holes.

Don`t read on if you are of a sensitive nature folks.

I haven`t done any further dismantling as it isn`t safe for me to work on the car at present - I am wearing an eye patch over my left eye as I can`t close it, it is oozing pus and I have tried to claw it out in my sleep. I hope it will improve but only time will tell.

I am limited to refinishing parts already removed and even that is a challenge as I can`t judge distance. I know someone who lost an eye a long time ago and I gather you get used to it.

Bloody hell. I had conjunctivitis once that was close to your description. It was awful, and my left eye has never fully recovered. Sometimes I have to hold the lid off the eyeball as it feels like there's a razor blade stuck in there.
Usually it happens if I've woken up too early and not adjusted to the light.
Hope you recover from it soon.

Thanks Steve.
The infection is in the tear duct and is very uncomfortable, but the patch is driving me bonkers. A positive side effect is my right eye grows stronger. I realize my troubles remain minor compared to some but I find it very hard to slow down - currently giving some brackets an acid bath in my living room.
Can`t understand why i`m single....
All the best.

Reminds me of when I lived in a shared rented house. I was charging the battery from my Fiat 850 in the lounge, and knocked it over, spilling acid on the purple (!) carpet. My bio-chemist house mate shoved some bicarbonate of soda on it and we ended up with lots of white spots on the carpet. I tried to cover them up by snipping off tufts of carpet and gluing them over the spots, but needless to say, we weren't able to pull the wool (or even the carpet) over the agent's eyes and had to pay something for the damage.

So be careful with that acid bath, don't get in it for example...

Re rental carpets: an ex-girlfriend taught me that a 303 cartridge case makes an excellent cutter, when used under, say, the wardrobe, to make inserts for cigarette burns...

Your house mate wasn't Walter White was he

Some nice cleaning going on there, KBT - my washer bottle is (a) still dirty and (b) stops the water sloshing out with a milk carton lid... so if you find a replacement lid that fits, please let me know!

Apart from the fact that it is blue...Alfa 145.
Whip the brake/clutch fluid res. out at the same time as they don`t seem to yellow.

Oh Bingo!

According to Eper, part number 7798958

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I've got a thing like that to put washing liquid in the washing machine...

Keeps the newts and pollywoggles out when filling up from a stream.

I separated them as the filler isn`t needed on the Coupe and it bites the tank a bit too, so I wouldn`t fit to a brittle tank should you have one.

I used a 4mm ally rod with a sponge grafted to it to clean the tank.

Also from 145. I think it will fit the 16v engine.

It would need a further bush, I think - the 16v engine has two rubber bushes at right angles, separated by a short bar.

Top back right in the picture:

I see. I only have the Lancia 16vt for comparison, which has the engine side bush fitted to a housing bolted to the engine.