Recent content by danieldavid

hi dave, are you sure you were told the master cylinder for clutch involves need for gearbox to come out, i thought the master was behind pedal on drivers side but gearbox on passenger side. about to work on an rcz and slave or master have gone, i know the slave is straightforward to fix, but i...

yes, ive had to do that on both my front calipers now, ivr never added grease but if it happens again i may add, i think its the caliper thats sticking on one side every few months, i bought a full used caliper set and pads to change as i cant compress that caliper more than a few mm as its so...

ok, in case anyone has the same issue, before you start replacing drive shafts..... i recently had a binding left brake which i freed off, by stripping and cleaning it, then the right one started binding the next day. I couldnt work out what the one noise per wheel rotation was coing from...

i checked f21 and its got continuity on a meter, so i might look at the fan motor and the relay unit at front of car. In my case it never overheats on the guage, never seems to go above 90 but strangely i never hear a fan, even at low speed working.

ps, the oil cooler is held on by 3 nuts, i used a half length extension bar, 2 from above, 1 from underneath, its really fiddly, you cant see one of the nuts. then the 4 tiny bolts have to be removed to remove the mini radiator to alow the oil cooler to pull past the structure below as the 3...

in case anyone else has similar problems and is looking to try to understand causes, so after i changed belts and water pump the level seemed to not drop. but after i removed and put back the oil cooler (ill mention later how i think this can be done if anyone needs to in future), when i topped...

this is starting to make me think i might not have a leak, as some weep holes push the coolant to front block.....

one other thought on this, before i start dismantling more things, but after i did the watrer pump replacement as part of the timing belt replacement, its not dripped from the front as it usually did before. Sometimes it didnt drip and sometimes id did when cold and unpressured, but does anyone...

Also, i dont know if this is related, its winter now, but i havent noticed the fan coming on, if i wanted to check fan or sensors that trigger it, what are the most obvious things to check on a 2.0 hdi circa 2009 to 2015, thanks again for any advice

the rcz is so rare, but this is someone taking out the egr housing on a 508 2.0 hdi, and theres a coolant hose to the drivers side aboe where ive had a leak, so not impossible its this rather than the cooler, though i assume its the water pipe behind the oil cooler. 8 mins in

hi, spent hours today removing the bolts and nuts that hold the oil cooler in place on the diesel, its a really fiddly job, the 3 main nuts that hold the on are out of sight but 2 can be accessed from above and one from below, I wasnt able to get the oil cooler out as the little radiator had to...

Just to show further findings on this, i ordered the following item from ebay, has 4 gaskets for resealing the join from oil cooler to engine block, and i think the o ring as well for the coolant pipe, with the coolant pipe also. Ive looked at the oil coolere design and compared to othes and as...

tried to start it for first time after timing belt change, didnt start, left it a bit with ignition on incase fuel delivery neederd, still didnt start, tried pumping the little fuel manual squeezy pump under the bonnet, still didnt start, i thought it couldnt be the timing, i had got tippex...

oh and i reckon theres about 100kg or a tenth of a ton of downward push with arms to try to force it round into place including partly body weight, i had to wrap my hands in a scalf as it was getting painful on the hands of the large plyers, the large non pointed plyers fit onto the top of the...

ps, if anyone fixes the mirror as mentioned above, when you compress the spring, you have to i think make sure the allignment is right, there are 4 directions it can be compressed, i left the car inlocked with boot open to lock central locking open, and compressed the spring in the open position...