Cooling

After reconditioned the surface of the housing, new thermostat was installed.

All the hoses in the engine bay replaced….
What a short word for the time consuming several hours task….

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Tags: header tank, heater core pipe

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Cooling

Not much to report while replacing all of the coolant hoses.
So many hoses are involved and time consuming task….

Drained the coolant from the front and the rear engine block.

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Tags: coolant hose, coolant pipe

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Cooling

In order to access the thermostat area, the air box has to be removed.
When I looked at the air filter from the opening of the box, it didn’t look nice so decided to remove the cover and found this.


This air filter didn’t look like it was replaced at the specified service interval.
It was so dirty and blocked that I ...

Tags: air box, air filter, coolant hose

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Cooling

Not great weather so instead of test driving session, started replacing the IG switch.

No wonder why the owner was having difficulty starting the engine or keeping the engine running.

The terminals were showing the fretting corrosion resulting in intermittent connection.

Unfortunately, there was an additional wire attached to the existing ...

Tags: battery holder, coolant pipe, gnd cable, ig switch

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Cooling , Electronics

After spending some time on how to fire up the engine under current condition,
re-connected the O2 sensor and started the preparation for the fire up.




While trying to re-install the battery, found lots of packing foam under it.
This is the cat sand like material covering the entire battery when you buy ...

Tags: eng hatch damper, o2 sensor

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Engine/Tyre , Cooling