well ive started a new project picked up a 2.0lt signum very cheep that had loads of work done for the last mot and then it had a plug come loose damaged the thread and poped out the top
soon got that sorted with a m14 recoil kit 🙂
while i was doing the plug i put a new main chain on
bit dirty and looking sorry for its slef
121k miles later lol
after a wash it started to come clean
a nice sort of clean
and then the engine bay had the usual treatment and that looked 100 times better to
and as with all preface vectras the headlights were muffed so took about sanding the faded laquer off then applying new laquer
done
also a bit of rust bubbles taken care of on the bottom of the drivers door
stripped the boot out and gave it all a good wipe down
much better 🙂
the boot catch was rusty so sorted that to with my new shot blasting cabinet
before and after
before and after back side
all clean
no paint just fertan 🙂
picked up some bits to repair the door paint,tape,wet&dry.....
after having the car a week or so a few little niggles poped up that annoyed me
the head lamp leveling was non functional looks like the motor was rusted to bits
good job astra g motor PCB's are the same 🙂 bit of a swap round and now all working
the brakes creaked when pushing the pedal at a stand still and both front disc were scrap
new ones going in with painted and greased calipers
even fitted a set of braided front lines i had laying around then did a full brake fluid change
had problems getting 3rd when driving and also at low speed the dual mass was playing tennis
after draining the mtf it was apparent that the 4.2l in there was way too much lol
its now got 2.6l and working fine no more dual mass tennis
some other jobs
the coolant low warning kept flashing up so washed the bottle out and changed the level sensor for it to still give the error i ended up unplugging the body loom and washing out the plug with carb cleaner its since never came back on
then i had a reverse lamp warning altho the bulb was on
the car has a tow bar and all i can think is the guy fitting it broke the wire out the plug his fix was to solder the earth direct to the inside of the lamp housing :confused:
i found the right terminal with the right colour wire in a dead mk4 astra dash loom used that to replace the missing wire to the plug and its now working as should
im sure there will be many other little thing that will pop up over time 🙂
