There are times...

[leon]

God lord im glad i was not the only one the amount of times ive been cursing my car while trying to chase ghosts in the system! i\'ve spent so much time with my head under the bonnet trying to find intermitant problems and resolve them (usualy they fix themselfs when i come to repair them) i can finaly see a light at the end of the tunnel now and my enthusiasm for the car has hit a high again!

If you need some checkvalves / solenoids i have some spare but id recomend buying a set of the viton ones from the states (only a few dollah!):Thumbs-up and spending a weekend playing the rats nest game (its all good fun)

Stick with it, when it all comes together you get a great feeling of success and acomplishment.:Laugh

[Nik da Greek]

Thanks for all the words of encouragement there, guys! I know even in the darkest hours with these bloody things there\'s a little bit of you that says "remeber how good it is when it\'s all running right" and that\'s what keeps me going with it. The reason all this has p!ssed me off so much is that I thought the engine work I had done was the last bit that HAD to be done, and after three years I could at last start doing the stuff I WANTED to do, cos there\'s a big difference there! It appears not.
 
My own fault really for starting with a dreadful car in the first place, it was a real wreck but came with a £5600 engine from Rotechnics that was only 15000 miles old (I\'ve got the previous owners bills for that, he must\'ve been happy!), so I\'ve always kinda thought I\'d bought a sound engine with a free car thrown in. When I wrote it off and transsferred the motor into a blown car, I thought it might all be good, but the new one seems just as cursed as the old one! And now the engine\'s started going weird as well, that was the only good bit up till now.
 
Oh, well, I\'ll just plod on, I suppose. The cursed thing\'s probably cost me something like 20 grand by now, so it\'s not like I can afford to get rid of it, but it\'s depressing when I think what I coulda bought instead for the money it\'s cost.
 
Aceman, thanks for your very kind offer, I may need to take you up on it one day (if they ever get back to me). I\'ve got the original wheels, but they\'re not much use without tyres!
 
SiH, you\'re right about the polished rims, I\'d rather they\'d have just left them bare so at least I could take a bit of Autosol to the damn things. The tuning firm I took them to just took them aopart and put them back together, which was the part that worried me, they outsourced the refiniching to a "proffessional" wheel firm, which makes the finish even worse when you think that\'s all they have to do all day. If it was just the polishing, I\'d have done it myself, but I didn\'t want to risk getting ovel wheels from bolting them up wrong.
 
\'Loper, no, it\'s only a baby 636, bought it more for the handling than the engine. I had a 2002 \'Blade before, and I know what you mean, how can Honda make something so unholy fast feel soooo boring!
 
JP825, my fault, no need to apologise, it does sound like I bit slightly there! It\'s been a bad month, sorry. You\'re right, and eBay is a den of thieves at times, but when you\'re buying brand names from reputable sellers it should be no more dodgy than any other internet source. Should be, but it don\'t always work!

[SiH]

Do the rims yourself :nod: I\'ve done plenty of sets and never had any problem with ovbalising - it\'s nowehere near as bad as people seem to think it is
No point telling you that though, as they should be sorting it for you. If in doubt, get them to strip and reploish them with no lacquer - it is hard work keeping them clean, but it\'s worth it - the finish is brighter than when they are lacquered as well Belgom Alu will keep them in lovely condition and cut down on the polishing intervals If you need any more advice about that let me know

I\'ve got a spare Viton check valve sitting around if you need it

[Jin Kazama]

I feel for you with the wheels. I have no doubt the refurbers will redo them - they have to, it\'s inexcusable! Still a pain in the backside though.
I don\'t think many people here will know who Job is!;)

[Nik da Greek]

I feel for you with the wheels. I have no doubt the refurbers will redo them - they have to, it\'s inexcusable! Still a pain in the backside though.
I don\'t think many people here will know who Job is!;)

What, no-one here sleeps with their Bible besides the bed!  Unfortunately, I was forced through a CE secondary school, some of those zealous religious education lessons obviously went in and stuck! My Gran would be soooo dissapointed, I was supposed to be Greek Orthodox!

[Jin Kazama]

Mate, your signature... it sounds like the Knights of neee after they decided they were no longer the Knights who say neee.

[Nik da Greek]

Call of Cthulhu, dude! "In his house in sunken R\'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies dreaming". Possibly doesn\' make much more sense that way unless you\'ve read your HP Lovecraft? The best ever horror writer of whom King and all the others are mere pale shadows!
 
Although the mighty Python would be a good second  choice for top sig quotes!

[Jin Kazama]

I remember a Call of Cthulu roleplaying game during the D&D era, don\'t recall it having much of a folliwing though.

[Nik da Greek]

Well, that\'s that then! Surprisingly, or rather, not, it just failed the MOT anyway. The eBaytastic bug eye chav lights failed for no beam pattern, which I kinda suspected they might. No big deal there, I can easily go back to pop-ups, with the bonus of not having to take any more grief about my sh!t eBay purchases, lol! :Tongue1
 
CO of 6.34% and HC at 2109 parts per might be slightly more of a problem, though. That\'ll be, like double the limit on both, more or less, then. Deep ******G joy. What\'s gone wrong there, then? Is it the airpump that\'s given up? Oxygen sensor? Cat? All of the above?
 
Having found all that, the tester then obviously thought he may as well have a field day and put in another fail because the coilsprings are loose when you stick the car in the air and let the wheels hang. Yeah, cos I spend a lot of the time airborne, don\'t I? They\'re horrible jap-spec GET coilovers that are bone-breakingly hard, and I\'ve always wanted to replace them and never had the money, now I REALLY hate them! Any answers to that one? Wind them up so tight there\'s no way the springs can unseat themselves, and take all the travel out?
 
Also got an advisory on the engine being "smoky" and the exhaust "noisy". Yeah, like I *******g care about that, then. Rear brake pads worn, too, which is fair enough, but I guess I won\'t really need brakes for a while on a car that ain\'t going anywhere in the forseeable future.
 
Did I mention that I ******g hate this ******g car, it\'s only ever been an utter ******g ***t and no matter how much money and time I ******g throw at it, it\'s still only a ******g bag of ***t, the ************g ***t!
(Thought I\'d better censor this post myself to stop some poor Mod going old and grey bleeping out all the ****s!)
 
p.s. wonder how many posts/threads have started with "aaaargh" when dealing with these *******g cars!

[Gatesy]

p.s. wonder how many posts/threads have started with "aaaargh" when dealing with these *******g cars!

Lots!  

On a plus though I\'ll give you £50 for your car so you can go down your local and drown your sorrows

[Nik da Greek]

Right, we\'ll start the bidding at £50 then! If anyone wants to make me a SENSIBLE offer and turn up with a trailer, it\'s theirs! I\'m serious. I\'ve had enough of trying to turn a sows ear into a silk purse and only ending up with a baggy wizard\'s sleeve (to mix metaphors a bit!).

[FD3SNuttah]

yeah but once you sorted the car out then you wont be feeling this way will you?!

thing i would do is list all the various points / problems and then identify which parts you need.

I got a mate up here who has broke like three rex\'s and might be able to help you out with lots of parts. so dont sweat it too much mate. at least the engine isnt blown!?

[Aceman]

Aceman, thanks for your very kind offer, I may need to take you up on it one day (if they ever get back to me). I\'ve got the original wheels, but they\'re not much use without tyres!

Yeah, tyres are useful...

I only kept them for if I have issues with the MOT (One of my wheels is a little, well, bent thanks to pot holes and although most MOT stations pass it, I have had one fail the car on it before) so they should have road legals on them..

[Rotaryguru]

Well, that\'s that then! Surprisingly, or rather, not, it just failed the MOT anyway. The eBaytastic bug eye chav lights failed for no beam pattern, which I kinda suspected they might. No big deal there, I can easily go back to pop-ups, with the bonus of not having to take any more grief about my sh!t eBay purchases, lol! :Tongue1

I had the lights problem too, I stuck aluminium tape on them and made the right pattern. Maybe the MOT man took pity on me, but it made it!
 
As with emissions, get the airpump working right, and you should be ok.
 
Stick with it. :chat

[Nik da Greek]

So, we reckon the airpump\'s the culprit, do we? Gotta be honest, I\'ve never paid it any mind before, cos I\'ve never had to, so I\'m not really sure how it should work. When I turn the ignition on, the clutch fires in and out slightly, so it\'s obviously got power ok, but it doesn\'t seem to do owt when the engine\'s running. Presumably it shouldn\'t run permanently, otherwise it wouldn\'t need a clutch at all, but when and why should it engage? Is it rev-related or what?