What have you done to your car today?
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Leicestershire
Llanidloes
Z4_LZF
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Got the zed out of the garage from its winter hibernation.
Clutch stuck all the way to the floor. Would release if flicked up with my foot.
Oops.
Sticking release bearing?? Failed cylinder??
Turned out to be a moved floor mat which was pinning it in to position.
Phew.
A cheap fix.
Clutch stuck all the way to the floor. Would release if flicked up with my foot.
Oops.
Sticking release bearing?? Failed cylinder??
Turned out to be a moved floor mat which was pinning it in to position.
Phew.
A cheap fix.
Chester
Sacramento, CA
"Secured" the splash guard with zip ties and twist ties, just enough so I can move from one house to another. Nothing's stronger than zip ties! (except bolts and doing it properly)
Eventually I'll take it to a friend who has a lift at his place, but he's currently working on his car, so I've got to wait until he's done.
Eventually I'll take it to a friend who has a lift at his place, but he's currently working on his car, so I've got to wait until he's done.
Attleborough, Norfolk
Just lift the left side to pull it out.Tried fixing my soft top motor for the 500th time. This time enlisting the help of my much smaller friend who could fit into the boot. Nothing doing. Looks like I'll have to pull the entire top off of the car
Will try that, thanks.
When I bought it, the roof the motor was whirring but didn't move. I tried the manual release but that was jammed. Then the latch motor was having some troubles. Now the latching mechanism works, but the motor doesn't whirr at all, so I tried removing the motor from the trunk but my arm is too long to fit back there. Then I tried checking the fuses - they're all good. I then had my friend try but he couldn't do it either.What is wrong with your soft top motor anyway that 500 tries couldn't fix?
I pulled mine out with the roof like this:
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Unfortunately not my first time with roof motors and e85s. My 3.0i had motor failure, then leaked hydraulic fluid everywhere, then I realized the fluid was leaking from the hydraulic hinge/lift. To top it off, the latch motor also failed. Took the roof completely off at least 5 times on that car, dreading doing that to this car as the rubber seals still line up properly.
Lovely colour and nice wheels
Finland
Dropped the subframe, ready to replace any remaining untouched rubber components:
- subframe bushes
- diff bushes
- RARB droplinks + bushes
- RTAB bushes
- all balljoints
- diff seals
- maybe the CV boots, if they look in need
- shocks + springs
And then drop the fuel tank, just to check for rust etc above it, as well as cleaning up any surface rust around where the subframe lives. The worse part is by the RTAB pockets, where it seems the RTAB bracket has trapped some water against the body, maybe?
Oddly very dusty up there, but it seems like most of it will clean off, so I'm hoping it's mostly good under the dust!
- subframe bushes
- diff bushes
- RARB droplinks + bushes
- RTAB bushes
- all balljoints
- diff seals
- maybe the CV boots, if they look in need
- shocks + springs
And then drop the fuel tank, just to check for rust etc above it, as well as cleaning up any surface rust around where the subframe lives. The worse part is by the RTAB pockets, where it seems the RTAB bracket has trapped some water against the body, maybe?
Oddly very dusty up there, but it seems like most of it will clean off, so I'm hoping it's mostly good under the dust!
Broke the subframe down into it's component parts, ready for cleaning/replacement etc. as needed.
Took just over an hour, including tidying/hoovering up after myself (I love work from home lunch breaks!).
Took just over an hour, including tidying/hoovering up after myself (I love work from home lunch breaks!).
Great work @TriggerFish , so many questions. This is a job I would like to do one day. Is there a thread on here, where do you start, what tools required etc?