FOA: Cunning Plan

[Andy]

About to do a disc and pad change on me Mondy, apart from your grief with the disc not coming off, anything else I should keep an eye out for?

I'm changing my rears so it looks like I'll have the added bonus of the handbrake to re-adjust.

[Cunning Plan]

Urrm, not really, realitivly straight-forward. Did one side in like 15 minutes, the other - well you know the story

Take cap off the brake-fluid resivour (always forget this )
Wheel off.
Caliper mounting cover thingys pop off with a flat-head.
Use an hex-head / allen-key type socket to get them off - can't remember the size.
Front retaining springs pop off - remember which way they go.
Caliper off. Pads out, caliper piston expander, pads in.
Floating disc on the front (no idea about the rears), should just slide off (LOL ).
Everything back on the way it came off.

[Fieldy]

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Everything back on the way it came off.

Most important part....

[Andy]

Yeah, i'm looking forward to the 'floating' disc. Mine look well and truely crudded on.

Fair enough though, have a haynes but am completely lost on how the rear handbrake mechanism works or come off.

[Andy]

Right, job is a good'un. Started at 8:30am, finished at 8:10pm...

First side came off a piece of pi$$, just typical that the othersides most hidden bolt was seized solid. Couple of hours fighting it with the wrench, penatrating oil, further couple rained inside consulting forum advice. Dug out the cold chisel and favourite tool of the pikeys and bam, off it span. Heavens opened once the disc was off and rather leave it half done out came the fishing umbrella and back to it. Test drove and all seems fine. Cheers for the advice CP.

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

Started at 8:30am, finished at 8:10pm...

Quoting: Andy

Test drove and all seems fine. Cheers for the advice CP.

Welcome bud Us Ford guys stick together

[Andy]

*Sigh*

Another day, another problem.

Got to the pub this afternoon for a well earned pint, (soft drink of course). Come out a bit later as a mate was having a fag. Noticed a puddle of 'liquid' under the car. Diesel.

Popped the bonnet and it looks like it's coming from the little pipes that interconnect the injectors. They seem to be cloth covered silicone tubes but all appear to be soaked in fuel and it's covered the fuel pump.

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

Popped the bonnet and it looks like it's coming from the little pipes that interconnect the injectors. They seem to be cloth covered silicone tubes but all appear to be soaked in fuel and it's covered the fuel pump.

I THINK they are the over-spill pipes. I was always supprised that they aren't metal going by the pressure that injectors usual put out.

Should be an easy-ish fix for you though, I think even halfrauds sell the pipe in a 1 metre roll, just cut it to each pipe size. You may have to get the air out the system after though

[Andy]

Yeah, just limped it to work but won't be going anywhere else as I watched the fuel gauge actually go down!!

Removed what looked like the worst one and cut the braid open, all hair line splits along it's length. With it on, if you rev the engine you can actually see the fuel soak into the braid and then run down to the base of the injector. I have a feeling this could be where I'm losing some MPG. lol.

Time to get on Demon Tweaks and get some pipes! Bit of engine dressing is in order.

I suppose this is ment to happen as I was quoted £180 ish to do the rear brakes, which really only coated me £54 for parts and about £15 in consumables. So long as the pipe work doesn't cost more than £100 I'm on to a winner!!

[Andy]

Just went to the car parts place next door to get myself a bit of fuel line. No offence to the lad but is it that hard to convert imperial to metric? The 'USA Made' fuel line had an I/D of 1/8. The stuff I pulled off was actually about 3.25, poor lad didn't have a clue. I did give him a basic maths lesson in fractions to decimals and then multiply by 25.4 but have a feeling he might forget that soon enough. £1.38 for a metre and I think the jobs a good'un.

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

nt to the car parts place next door to get myself a bit of fuel line. No offence to the lad but is it that hard to convert imperial to metric? The 'USA Made' fuel line had an I/D of 1/8.

To be fair, I'm not sure about converting. I just use Google..

Quoting: Andy

£1.38 for a metre and I think the jobs a good'un.

[EDGE]

i STILL cant find that poxy intercooler Andy... I think it may have 'gone' in the last "i cant find anything in this poxy garage" tantrum !!!!

I'll have a look in the shed though, all sorts turn up in there!

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: EDGE

all sorts turn up in there

[EDGE]

ive got a bag of bird seed in there thats slowly becoming multi coloured !!!

[Andy]

Quoting: EDGE

i STILL cant find that poxy intercooler Andy... I think it may have 'gone' in the last "i cant find anything in this poxy garage" tantrum !!!!

not to worry dude, I'll have to hook mine off again sometime soon as the leak at the turbo end is just a bit too much.

Early signs are that those spill off pipes were causing a couple of other issues. She now fires first time, probably due to the fuel system be air tight. Also the AC pulley has stopped squeaking when accelorating. Can only put this down to fuel getting on the belt.

Took her out for a bit of a countryside hoon as the drive from work didn't give a chance to see if the leaking had stopped, all a-ok and since all the diesels now evaporated it's left me a nice clean fuel pump. Swings and roundabouts I say

[Cunning Plan]

Should see the MPG go up up up!

I'd be expecting at least 120mpg...

[Andy]

Feel like I got my own little project now keeping this thing going...

UPDATE:

After reading F-Body's thread on getting his air con re-gassed I checked out how hard it would be to replace the condensor on mine. The bottom had completely rotted away, common on MK1/2. I had been quoted something crazy like £200 for the condensor + roughly £200 to fit it as it was a drain the coolant and remove the radiator job.

Thanks to MEG, it was that bad, just a couple of screwdrivers through the top radiator pillars for support, unbolt the condensor pipes, unbolt the lower radiator supports, tilt the bottom of the radiator backwards to get enough room and it simply unclips. Job is a good'un as they say, and it only took about 45 minutes! The new condensor was £30 + £10 P+P from ebay

Next item on the list is the nearside CV joint. It's been thunking from side to side for a little time now but when i took it into a garage they said a TRE was loose which didn't cure it but carried on. Anyway now it's making a noise when the wheel rotates so I've bought a couple of replacements which i'm looking at fitting along with some new lower arms and ARB drop links.

Only problem with the heavy TD is how much it shags out bushes. It's about as heavy as the ST200 but that came with a better designed lower arm where the bushes are mounted horizontally as opposed to vertically.

So my check list of things to do stands at:

-Get air con re-gassed (Can't wait to take a photo of the receipt coming out of the machine!)
-Both CV joints
-Both Lower front arms
-Drop Links
-Front flex brake pips

Apart from the air con, these were all advisories on the last MOT. The only thing I'm worried about are the flex hoses as I think there is a potential there for me to cock up the brakes.

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

CV joint. It's been thunking from

When moving at low speed and turning, my Mondeo clunks from the OSF. All bushes etc seem okay so I am guessing it is the CV too.. Doesn't do it all the time, just when I am parking or something where the wheels are turned and the car is moved slowly..

[Andy]

Exactly the same as mine, not all the time but parrallel parking is a good way to get it going.

Local motor parts company want £54.73 for one but got two off eBay for £52.00. Pretty happy with that tbh. Love how cheap parts are on these.

Are you going to Mondeomania? Someone has planted the seed of poly bushing the front arms and ARB... that would definately outlast the car!

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

Are you going to Mondeomania?

No, I think I p1ss everyone off enough with the VW and American shows I go to, but even more so if I added Mondeos onto that

Quoting: Andy

Local motor parts company want £54.73 for one but got two off eBay for £52.00.

Got an advisory on the MOT - 'slight knocking during drive - unable to locate source'..

[Andy]

Sounds just like mine although it's got through 2 mots without being pulled up.

My friend is taking her Escort cabby so going up with her. Anything you need?

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

Anything you need?

Cheers bud! But not really. A set of standard original 14" Mondeo hubcaps would be good to keep the car stock instead of the cheapies on there right now.. But they are usually well above my budget of £15 lol

[Andy]

I'll have a look bud, there's normally some geeza flogging parts like that cheaply.

If you read this Fieldy, anything you need?

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Andy

I'll have a look bud, there's normally some geeza flogging parts like that cheaply.

Yah cool cheers If you do see some - nothing chavvy though - stock ones are good like these

[Andy]

Ive seen a few of those knocking about at shows.

Had to replace a couple of mine when I bought it, some were pretty badly stoved in.