My Rex rebuild

[Casey]

I feel your pain!

Keep at it, there has to be a logical reason for what you are experiencing. I think the wet leading plug on the front rotor is a major clue. To me, it suggests it's not sparking (lead, coil, or...). Have you tried pulling that plug and grounding it to the body to visually check for a spark?

[mikey-t]

sooooooo
went back today and just before stripping the coils out etc i thought i would give it one more try,,,,fired first time and ran on both housings,.
let it warm up checked all electrics was running sweet turned it off started again with a bit of a struggle so let it run up and revved for a bit battery was charging at 14.2 so all tickedy boo and then turned off tried to start again bit of effort and nothing battery had drained right down,


i have inspected everything and although not ideal it is all good, the only thing that seemed odd was the following which i think is a symptom of a faulty diode in the alternator

when the engine and ignition is full off the fuse box and alternator are still registering 13.2v which i think is the alternator still trying to charge and could potentially be a parasitic drain on the battery i would expect to see battery voltage only of maybe 12.2-12.6 under those conditions,

could this be my problem

[clive]

  excellent news,

May  be an idea to pull the battery out and get it drop tested because the altonator will keep pumping at times if you have a dodgy battery, even halfords shoul be able to do this

[mikey-t]

right then,,,,,
been a while i know but new job and all that, oh and christmas.

i never managed to get to the bottom of the car not starting or charging or anything so sent it off to rotortorque for craig to deal with.

within 3 days he had done what i asked and more so top bombing there fella.

car is now taxed and mot'd so i can start breaking the engine in but first i need to solve a few issues.

firstly one of my split rims has suddenly decided to leak air so i have to rip that apart and trace it all.

also i fitted the quantum suspension with a few buddies and it just doesnt seem right, no top mount or anything just a bushing and bolt and washer array so im searching for a local specialist to give it a once over and then do a full set up.

i have ordered some more toys from haltech so hopefully they will ship in in the new year.

my main issue for this week is my distinct lack of wiper action.
they were always slow but then they progressed to the juddering, stopping and letting the smoke out department. so time for a investigatory rebuild there, if that fails i am going to look into doing some kind of modern system retrofit.
the mechanicals of this is easy enough just mate a spline matched motor with power and your away but matching it to the stalk feed and gearing could be tricky,,, anyone done this?

i know things like wiper mechanisms and motors in early japanese cars were borrowed off other manufacturers is this the case with this one?

i would also like to investigate further my lighting options, hid / projector is well out of my budget so im going to experiment with high output LED i think.
anyone have any experience on these motors with such wizardry

hope you are all well, what you guys up too?

as my favourite youtuber would say keep your dick in a vice! laters

[boosted]

Great shes on the road Mikey. Wipers...both my fd,s have had slow wipers...ive tended to use them on 2nd speed setting....and rain ex helps bigtime. Are others like it?  Maybe just need another motor?

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[mikey-t]

Took the car on the road today and it was doing just fine getting up to temp and dropping down accordingly but suddenly started getting hot,
After some looking around it turns out the engine is getting hot and starts pushing the coolant into the expansion tank but not drawing it back in so it's pushing all my coolant out and introducing air locks.

I can't understand why it is doing this now it should surely pull the coolant back when it starts cooling back down

[mikey-t]

Engines dead, pressurising the system instantly, water seals have gone. Now I'm (censored)ed

[clive]

Arrrrrrrrgggggggggggg

[Casey]

Noooooooooooooooooooo 

[mikey-t]

Lesson learned don't trust "specialists" do it yourself, not an option for me right now so don't know what I'm going to do

[clive]

mikey, correct me if I'm wrong but a quick look at the thread seems to indicate this engine has never been out on the road since a specialist has rebuilt it,

If so, you should really talk to whoever screwed it together as standing around for a long time would not have damaged water seals, if this is indeed a fresh non mileage build then a water seal has been pinched upon assembly and no matter that you have had the engine a long time, they should help you.   

[mikey-t]

Yes it is a incredibly low mileage build but I know the engine builder and however likely a pinch would be I don't think that is the case,
The only reason I say this is when it went to the ecu and mapping specialists I walked in on them trying to breed the system by revving with a Coke bottle on the filler with no bleed valve on the rad, and just monitoring temps via a rad probe.

With the system air locked and not flowing I'm guessing what little coolant was in the engine at that point boiled the seals.

So when it did come to actual driving they just shit themselves with the pressure

[mikey-t]

Well I have had the Christmas period off work and got the start of year rush out of the way so spent the early parts of this week cleaning the unit of non paying cars and moved the shitmobile back up there,
Will make a start on the tear down next week I think,  he'll with the engine out I may be able to tidy up some of the wiring and start installing the haltech digital dash,
Mostly plug and play when the lead comes back in stock but stuff like indicators and light status need to be wired in manually

[boosted]

Fair play mate for sticking with it.

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[Casey]

Yeah, huge respect for sticking with it