Well guess what, come up to sheffield to have my new exhaust fitted and 2 miles from junction 34 where i get off my bloomin cars rad blows.

 

Exactly the same problem as with my na's rad, the input on the left hand side blew clean off :rant:

 

Lucky i have a spare rad at home but i'll be going home on a low loader, oh well...

 

old exhausts and cats are off and new cross flow is being mackled up as we speak, i just happen to be using pete's pc while he's having brekky :D

 

There goes all the plans for this afternoon out the window! :rolleyes:

No burning around sounding all boy racerish then

Well guess what, come up to sheffield to have my new exhaust fitted and 2 miles from junction 34 where i get off my bloomin cars rad blows.

 

Exactly the same problem as with my na's rad, the input on the left hand side blew clean off :rant:

 

Lucky i have a spare rad at home but i'll be going home on a low loader, oh well...

 

old exhausts and cats are off and new cross flow is being mackled up as we speak, i just happen to be using pete's pc while he's having brekky :D

 

There goes all the plans for this afternoon out the window! :rolleyes:

 

 

you only been in petes presence 1 day and youve had bad luck, think how much i had being there over 2 years lol

 

hope u get it sorted hun

Oh Bunny mate so sorry for you. Saz told me on msn but we were sure Pete would be able to sort it out for you. :cry:

 

So now you've missed out on the curry as well :(

 

hugs mate

doh! zeds don't ya just love em. run great in the summer a bit of winter weather and they all get the jitters. lol.

 

 

hope you get it sorted soon mate

 

atb

gaz

Balls - hope you get it sorted mate.

sorry to hear that bud but its about your fookin luck innit, the only bloke that can fall into a barrel of tits and come out sucking his thumb

 

Well got back. So basically, finished fitting the exhaust at 5pm, been stuck there all day.

 

We tried to patch up the leak by fitting a t shaped rubber seal with a metal tube inside to clamp the outside of the plastic to in the vain hope the rubber seal would stop the water coming out.

 

Started it up... and it leaked so decided to drive to the local pizza hut, call the aa and wait there.

 

Exhausts sound good, boomy but not too intrusive inside the cabin even with the seats down and no sound deadening in the boot lining.

 

Got out and popped the hood and the steam had stopped leaking, temp was normal so thought, fu*k it, i'll try and see how far i get.

 

Heater on full with the fan on to aid cooling, keeping a distance between me and the traffic.

 

Got two junctions down to 32 then bang, big steam coming out.

 

Plastic had cracked and the killed the rad. Pullled over straight away, aa came and brought me back by 8.30pm

 

Spent the rest of the night trying to remove my old rad to replace with my spare one using a wind up torch in the pissing freezing cold (5 degrees c brrr)

 

Couldn't get enough pressure on the bottom pipe to secure it while i tightenend up so basically it dumped about 3 litres all the way down the road and back.

 

Now the car is stalling, stinks of petrol, and there's popping in the exhausts and i assume the temp sensors wire which were on the cats is the thing that's hanging down rubbing against the floor.

 

I may have completely fooked my car in under a day! I need sleep to get rid of this headache :cry:

youl appreciate it all the more.

nice nick can not see from the photo but are the pipes the same as on this one

 

 

 

im sur u havent fooked your car love keep me posted.

Oh Bunny sweetie as Saz says I doubt you've compeletly fook it all up. Just take a deep breath then have a good look at it.

 

All the best mate and big hug :)

Double balls - hope it's ok - I'm sure it'll just need something small sorting and it'll be fine.

Sarah, yep they're exactly the same exhausts. I didn't know you had those originally? Why did you change them?

 

UPDATE: Well, its running now, managed to fix the leak on the radiator. The cap wasn't gripping tight enough and water was leaking out, managed to plastic weld the top overflow pipe on from the old rad using a small syringe body, a soldering iron and a load of patience.

 

It's solid now and all i have to do is get some p40 glass fibre filler to smooth it off and strengthen it.

 

No water is coming out at all and the temperature is normal

 

Only problem is when i reversed onto the grass verge and i heard a crunh, i may have cracked my down pipe.

 

As i'm driving along with the exhausts cold, there's loads of pops and bangs, may just be the exhausts bedding in but it stopped when the exhausts heated up and they sound great.

 

I think the asbo is on the way though for pure volume on the outside, my bro says it sounds like a tvr tuscan on the outside yay! :rofl:

 

Just the tps (and possibly the downpipe) to replace then i'll be sorted.

Wahey Bunny progress :)

Of sorts.. just a downpipe and TPS to replace and he'll be back where he started :rofl:

Of sorts.. just a downpipe and TPS to replace and he'll be back where he started :rofl:

 

Pretty much, but now wheels are seperated and i'm in the process of polishing the rims by hand wahey!!!

 

 

 

i did not change them for any other reason than that i could!! i asked for it louder and pete just put the new ones on

i did not change them for any other reason than that i could!! i asked for it louder and pete just put the new ones on

 

lol, you said when i asked you that you asked for them to be not too loud and you got a headache with the roof off :D

Well looks like i've cracked the down pipe, it's popping and farting like a goodun now :(