Indy
Low Mileage
Today I installed Radium coolant expansion tank: http://www.radiumauto.com/Coolant-Expansion-Tank-Universal-P971.aspx
What did you do to your X1/9 today ?
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darwoodious
Darin Nelson
Reva M Midkiff
Low Mileage
I love this car
Reva M Midkiff
Low Mileage
Heating and cooling
Rod Midkiff
True Classic
Well, heating anyway both are car's are currently non-ac
ecohen2
True Classic
A recent post somewhere on this forum got me thinking about air in my cooling system and why it keeps coming back.
Tonight I did a pressure test and could find no leak. So I unscrewed the bleeder valve on the radiator, let the air out, tightened the valve up and went for a drive. When I came back, I just happened to use a very bright white LED light and looked to see if there were any drips. To my surprise, the bleeder valve was emitting a very fine mist!
Next I removed the bleeder valve and discover there was no crush washer. I have no idea where that went, but I installed a crush washer, smeared a little anti-seize compound on the threads and sealed it back up. I went for another test drive and no more mist!
Fun times!
Ed
Tonight I did a pressure test and could find no leak. So I unscrewed the bleeder valve on the radiator, let the air out, tightened the valve up and went for a drive. When I came back, I just happened to use a very bright white LED light and looked to see if there were any drips. To my surprise, the bleeder valve was emitting a very fine mist!
Next I removed the bleeder valve and discover there was no crush washer. I have no idea where that went, but I installed a crush washer, smeared a little anti-seize compound on the threads and sealed it back up. I went for another test drive and no more mist!
Fun times!
Ed
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Indy
Low Mileage
Rod Midkiff
True Classic
replaced a defective head light motor (would go up but not down)
Would only go down if I manualy ran it down (could run it down if I moved the wires to it around)
Read some where this was an easy way to get access (Yes it made changing the motor VERY easy!
And Yes I unplugged all the wires to the motor before reaching my arm in their (Well I did not unplug the ground yet)
This was me plugging in another set of motors that showed up today I read somewhere that the usual problem is the diodes in the other motor so I plugged the extra motor in over their first it would run just like the installed one would but the driver side still would not go down.
big smile having both go down on their own!!!!
Wive came out to let Me know dinner was ready. She saw that I was putting it back together and just supervised!!
I am so happy she is understanding and was able to just watch for a LITTLE bit of time and could see I was almost done!!! :: big smiles!!::
Then I want to put the lights away and again it went back to this fail condition again ((Arggg)) (forgot to take a fail pic so I re-used this one).
See if you can guess what happened. I laughed when I figured out what I had done. Let's see who can be the first to guess.
Would only go down if I manualy ran it down (could run it down if I moved the wires to it around)
Read some where this was an easy way to get access (Yes it made changing the motor VERY easy!
And Yes I unplugged all the wires to the motor before reaching my arm in their (Well I did not unplug the ground yet)
This was me plugging in another set of motors that showed up today I read somewhere that the usual problem is the diodes in the other motor so I plugged the extra motor in over their first it would run just like the installed one would but the driver side still would not go down.
big smile having both go down on their own!!!!
Wive came out to let Me know dinner was ready. She saw that I was putting it back together and just supervised!!
I am so happy she is understanding and was able to just watch for a LITTLE bit of time and could see I was almost done!!! :: big smiles!!::
Then I want to put the lights away and again it went back to this fail condition again ((Arggg)) (forgot to take a fail pic so I re-used this one).
See if you can guess what happened. I laughed when I figured out what I had done. Let's see who can be the first to guess.
kmead
Old enough to know better
That right there is beauty pure and simple, a trifle over the top mind you but beauty nonetheless.
Rod Midkiff
True Classic
No I did get the arm installed correctly the first time.
Stoney#1
Stoney
Ordered them from Henk, and they were installed by a Local upholsterer. If you know of anyone that needs a passenger seat cover(original) in that color I have one available
Stoney#1
Stoney
Rocco wanted to see pictures of old seats I will try to post them. I hope he sees this. passenger seat needs new wire pockets according to upholster, but obviously driver seat is trashed. He was very careful when removing the good one so as not to tear
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rocco79/138
True Classic
Seats look great! New ones really pop! Looks like the shop did a great job fitting them!