4-2-1 and exhaust wrap?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:27 pm

Got paint and have as much on me as I do on the wrap. Not sure it's going to work all that well, but we'll see. I have q fair chunk of wrap left over if it starts to fall off.

The wrap is well coated with the extra high temp paint and it is quite thin so soaked in quite well. All I need to do now is fit the damn thing...

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:00 pm

Wrap is done. Paint is a bit odd, but should be ok once I get it nice and hot. Que clouds of smoke....

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:35 pm

Well it's in but no lambda, it was more then a bit stuck and when I got medieval with it the sender bit twisted off the sensor which promptly shattered.

New one ordered from flea bay for £15, we'll see if that fits...

Old one was quite a pig to get out until I split it from the flexi, then it was just plain difficult... I had to undo the lower engine mount and rock the engine until it fell out. New one just slipped in nicely, no fuss really. Could really do with 2 people though.

Now since the rebuild I have had a jingly noise while on the move... I found what it was, the fecking top alternator bolt & no sign of the nut! It was loose and rattling about! Near miss there....

The joint between the little flexi and the 4-2-1 was a pig too. Fiddly flange clamps

Hopefully the lambda will turn up on friday and then I can see if my torque is back....

Rich

Post by **Shug** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:09 am

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Well it's in but no lambda, it was more then a bit stuck and when I got medieval with it the sender bit twisted off the sensor which promptly shattered.

New one ordered from flea bay for £15, we'll see if that fits...

Old one was quite a pig to get out until I split it from the flexi, then it was just plain difficult... I had to undo the lower engine mount and rock the engine until it fell out. New one just slipped in nicely, no fuss really. Could really do with 2 people though.

Now since the rebuild I have had a jingly noise while on the move... I found what it was, the fecking top alternator bolt & no sign of the nut! It was loose and rattling about! Near miss there....

The joint between the little flexi and the 4-2-1 was a pig too. Fiddly flange clamps

Hopefully the lambda will turn up on friday and then I can see if my torque is back....

Rich

Didn't get medieval enough on the Alternator nut then? Hmmm, suppose, at that stage of the game we had other worries!

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:08 pm

Pretty sure we didn't do it up TBH... I undid it to try and move the alt but clearly forgot

Never mind off to get pissed on a school night

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:10 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Pretty sure we didn't do it up TBH... I undid it to try and move the alt but clearly forgot Never mind off to get pissed on a school night

That could have been me, I remember saying "you get up and drink your tea, I'll do that for a bit" just around the time we messed around with the alternator drive belt....

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:55 pm

No harm done! Next time I hear a rattle I'll know where to look first... Then the crank bolt then the Camshaft bolts.....

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:39 pm

Well it's done and my *ahem* special lambda is fitted. The special lambda is the old one with the tip removed and a piece of copper plate criped over the end and loads of exhaust paste.
Feck me does that heat wrap smoke! I had several offers of the fire brigade! Seems to be ok now. Just tidying a bit then off for a test drive!

Rich
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Post by **simon** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:41 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Feck me does that heat wrap smoke! I had several offers of the fire brigade!

My mate put his Corrado into a garage in Dundee to fit his new downpipe and he'd wrapped it beforehand. They actually did call the fire brigade in when it started smoking