My Sable 2005 MR2 - shnazzle

[Tomo70]

Does this mean we are gonna see you you Saturday. 

[shnazzle]

Does this mean we are gonna see you you Saturday. 

We haven't 100% decided yet but we have organised child care (Helen's parents) in case we do decide to come
Bit of an illness situation going on there though so, won't know until Friday

[shnazzle]

Today was a day of lessons. It started with lesson A) Listen to your wife and ended with B)... Fking listen to your wife.

Helen's been at me about changing my catalytic converter since 2016 when our lovely Steve Nugent diagnosed it as fubar. But me being as anal as I am about fueling, have managed to squeeze it through MOT emissions for 3 years.
Still quite proud of that one, and nobody can take that away from me.
It became a bit of a fun challenge of "can I inch my car through MOT this year with a virtually useless cat?"

Fun times were over though when my precious fueling started to go all over the place and, try as I might, could not get it to settle.
The smell of the cat is now coming into the cabin instead of just gassing people behind me, so thought it time to change it.

Took 45 mins today on my lunch break including driving it on the ramps and cleaning up afterwards.
RESULT! Instant fueling issue resolution. Bit of a raspier note to the exhaust now that the cat actually flows exhaust through it. Must admit the car drives smoother too.

So yeah, I should have listened to Helen 2 years ago.
FYI Tricky this is your old cat that I picked up in 2016

Good fun.

Oh and no other issues to be seen either. Car be like

[Carolyn]

I take it you've splashed out on a new new one!! 

Didn't have you down for the cheap solution, Patrick.

[shnazzle]

I take it you've splashed out on a new new one!! 

Didn't have you down for the cheap solution, Patrick.

New one? Nah. Freebie off an old car
To be replaced by a 200 cell when I get one of Hamish's manifolds.
Ain't no money to splash. An old working cat is better than  an old broken one

[tricky1138]

FYI Tricky this is your old cat that I picked up in 2016

Glad it came to some use! 

See it's useful to have a garage full of spares! Been telling myself that for years!

[shnazzle]

.... And back to issues...
Ran so nicely on Saturday covering 258 miles. I watched fueling and all was good.
Today, system too lean error codes. How?

The only thing I can think is during the run I hit a series of surprise potholes really hard which may have rattled something loose.

Sick of cars.

[Call the midlife!]

.... And back to issues...
Ran so nicely on Saturday covering 258 miles. I watched fueling and all was good.
Today, system too lean error codes. How?

The only thing I can think is during the run I hit a series of surprise potholes really hard which may have rattled something loose.

Sick of cars.

Too much salad...


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[stewart@boro]

.... And back to issues...
Ran so nicely on Saturday covering 258 miles. I watched fueling and all was good.
Today, system too lean error codes. How?

The only thing I can think is during the run I hit a series of surprise potholes really hard which may have rattled something loose.

Sick of cars.

Too much salad...


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It's that Northumberland air....not as good as Yorkshire's

[shnazzle]

Cleaned the intake today. Sadly the housing was split but at 80 quid a pop for a new filter, it got repaired

I opened up the throttle body butterfly to find a not insignificant amount of black sludge behind the plate

Next mod is Hamish manifold, after that, oil catch can. Don't need that crap in my intake thank you very much

[shnazzle]

MOT time looming so time fooorrr..

*CAPTAINS LOG - Morpeth date 20180523131522*

- New oil
- New oil filter
- New spark plugs

Latest galaxy update;
I have released the dark matter from the galactical sump. It was a darker matter than I would have liked, but dense as desired.
The dark matter was replaced with exactly 3.7L of fresh Toyota-grade matter, leading me to believe that the hyperdrive is not burning excess resources.
Toyota-matter was chosen as the hyperdrive has been acting up as of late and it may not be prudent to use super-matter.

The flux capacitors were all replaced with Toyota OEM capacitors. Gaps were checked on each before install and unexpected variances were present, and corrected. Some variances as much as 1.4mm. 0.3mm over the required gap.
The exterior of 2 of the used capacitors had oil on the threads. Care was taken to install the new ones with a bit more torque.
The Captain recommends other starblazers check their gaps before installing flux capacitors.

The pink temperature conductive fluid contained traces of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other trace gases. These were expunged from the system via the cooling grid.

[MR TWO]

The Captain recommends other starblazers check their gaps before installing flux capacitors.

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[Bossworld]

If you've got oil near the plugs, how is your rocker cover gasket looking?

[shnazzle]

If you've got oil near the plugs, how is your rocker cover gasket looking?

Can't tell obviously but I'm assuming it could be a bit better
This year will likely ring in either an engine change or a valve job so it'll come off anyway.

[Bossworld]

If you've got oil near the plugs, how is your rocker cover gasket looking?

Can't tell obviously but I'm assuming it could be a bit better
This year will likely ring in either an engine change or a valve job so it'll come off anyway.

Fair does. The gasket also surrounds the spark plug wells as one piece, hence me asking. I think I read spark plug torque is 25nm, which I seem to remember feeling horribly tight but hey ho.

[shnazzle]

If you've got oil near the plugs, how is your rocker cover gasket looking?

Can't tell obviously but I'm assuming it could be a bit better
This year will likely ring in either an engine change or a valve job so it'll come off anyway.

Fair does. The gasket also surrounds the spark plug wells as one piece, hence me asking. I think I read spark plug torque is 25nm, which I seem to remember feeling horribly tight but hey ho.

I had them in quite loose to be fair. I think it's just that

[wotugonado]

It's surprising how the capacitors can be so far from the correct setting straight out the box, now you've set them it should make for a cleaner burn during warp speed.

[shnazzle]

It's surprising how the capacitors can be so far from the correct setting straight out the box, now you've set them it should make for a cleaner burn during warp speed.

So was I! They would have been fine I'm sure. Just surprised thats how they come

[jvanzyl]

Well then number one.... ENGAGE.

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[StuC]

Surely warp speed and Number two should be aligned?!

[shnazzle]

So confused

[delhusband]

So confused

"I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I canna give her no more!"

[Joesson]

Careful, I've been reprimanded about " Beam me Up" @scottee quips

[1979scotte]

Careful, I've been reprimanded about " Beam me Up" @scottee quips

Can't even get my username right.
Silly old codger.

[Joesson]

Careful, I've been reprimanded about " Beam me Up" @scottee quips

Can't even get my username right.
Silly old codger.

Not so much of the "old" please, I've had this feeling of deja vue before.....