SitRep!
It's been an interesting couple of weeks. I got quotes for smoke tests north of 100 beer tokens which got me thinking, how cheap could I build a decent smoke for. Well it turns out it's £60.79. Here it is in all its glory (minus the lid):
So I cover the maf inlet with a glove, taped the tube inside a glove finger and did a smoke test:
No leaks :driving: brilliant!
It a bit of a beast of a smoke machine but I wanted to make sure there was enough room in the cylinder to generate a decent amount of smoke.
Since then I took it to a friend's house who works for the AA and he scanned the car.
Air flow faulty. It would rwad 0.41 kg/h wherever it was revved to so diagnosis = jiggered maf! Whoever said these cars were money pits wasn't wrong (M54 sound track makes up for it though

)!
I've ordered that and a left front ABS sensor from autodoc however I'm still waiting for them to arrive

. Hopefully they be here by the end of the week.
Then it was MOT time. Result...Fail. but its not too bad. abs Light was one major (already knew about that). Other major was the handbrake wasn't quite up to scratch. A quick adjustment should sort that out as it was at 13% but needs to be 16%.
Other advisories were:
- Sticking door handle (knew about that)
- ball joints on wish bone had a slight bit of play in them.
- drivers side front brake is binding a little.
I want the weather to warm up before I tackle the door cable and the wish bones but ideally would like to check the front brake soon.
When I've looked on realoem there's no wishbone entry to give me a part number. Have these been discontinued? Need to dig into this a little more.
Scratch the last bit about the wishbone, I see it comes as a complete unit.
Oh and also, the brakes around the abs sensor look fairly corroded so I don't think the car has been garaged as much as the previous owner thought it had so getting the abs bolt out is going to be interesting? Any history of these snapping? Suppose I'll find out soon enough :lol: