BradC
28th March 2018, 02:27 PM
G'day all,
So following on from my fairly long intro-post regarding the Antichrist (MY08 UK import D3), got a new pair of horns, so it has noise again. Both original horns were thoroughly burned out when the steering wheel horn button jammed.
I picked up a Gap IID BT, got Bell Auto Services to give me a patch for both DPF & EGR. Plugged the EGR with shims and remove the butterfly and then off to the Exhaust place this morning to get the DPF removed.
So, it turns out the pipe that runs from the cat to the DPF (cat output pipe) wasn't actually welded into the cat, or had fractured the inadequate and almost invisible welds and was just sitting in its socket, so when they pulled the DPF out the pipe just fell on the ground. Nice. Always good when the owner comes over and goes "You'd better have a look at this".
So I've had the pipe welded into the cat to get me through the holidays, and then I'll get a new downpipe sans cat to replace the whole shooting match (which in hindsight I should have done first and saved myself $150). Because it's a UK import instead of a slip joint on the muffler there's a non-standard bolted flange where the DPF connected, so they had to cut that off the DPF and re-use it on the bypass pipe.
There are 2 thermocouples on the downpipe, forward and aft of the cat. The one aft of the cat has an unsecured cable that has been rubbing against the front driveshaft flange and is now destroyed. Obviously another hangover of the motor swap. Apparently the car doesn't need those sensors as it has never raised a code and it has probably been like that since well before I purchased the nightmare.
Every time I look at this thing sideways it just gets worse. Anyway, I now have a car that runs and isn't going to fall to bits in the immediate future (or leave my wife on the side of the freeway giving it the old "turn it off and then back on again").
So now I have 2 sockets under the car up above the transfer case. One for the DPF pressure sensor and one for the downstream DPF thermo probe. What would you use to protect those sockets and keep the grunge out? I thought about cutting the plug off the thermo probe and just putting that back, and capping the DPF pressure sensor pipe ports and putting that back, but if I don't have to destroy the probe I'd rather not. Put a plastic bag over them and tape them up? Cut the connectors off and put a heatshrink cap on the cables? Don't really want to hack the harness in case I ever have to re-fit the DPF.
I will say that driving it after the EGR removal felt like it had more get up and go, and after the DPF removal it's more again. I can't imagine what it'd be like if I got a remap.
Next up, a GVIF/Reversing camera and an M2.Connect MOST for bluetooth phone. This thing absorbs money so fast it should be made of fibreglass and have sails.
While I'm here. Anyone know where I can get a replacement eject button for the high-spec 6 CD head unit? The car didn't come with one.
So following on from my fairly long intro-post regarding the Antichrist (MY08 UK import D3), got a new pair of horns, so it has noise again. Both original horns were thoroughly burned out when the steering wheel horn button jammed.
I picked up a Gap IID BT, got Bell Auto Services to give me a patch for both DPF & EGR. Plugged the EGR with shims and remove the butterfly and then off to the Exhaust place this morning to get the DPF removed.
So, it turns out the pipe that runs from the cat to the DPF (cat output pipe) wasn't actually welded into the cat, or had fractured the inadequate and almost invisible welds and was just sitting in its socket, so when they pulled the DPF out the pipe just fell on the ground. Nice. Always good when the owner comes over and goes "You'd better have a look at this".
So I've had the pipe welded into the cat to get me through the holidays, and then I'll get a new downpipe sans cat to replace the whole shooting match (which in hindsight I should have done first and saved myself $150). Because it's a UK import instead of a slip joint on the muffler there's a non-standard bolted flange where the DPF connected, so they had to cut that off the DPF and re-use it on the bypass pipe.
There are 2 thermocouples on the downpipe, forward and aft of the cat. The one aft of the cat has an unsecured cable that has been rubbing against the front driveshaft flange and is now destroyed. Obviously another hangover of the motor swap. Apparently the car doesn't need those sensors as it has never raised a code and it has probably been like that since well before I purchased the nightmare.
Every time I look at this thing sideways it just gets worse. Anyway, I now have a car that runs and isn't going to fall to bits in the immediate future (or leave my wife on the side of the freeway giving it the old "turn it off and then back on again").
So now I have 2 sockets under the car up above the transfer case. One for the DPF pressure sensor and one for the downstream DPF thermo probe. What would you use to protect those sockets and keep the grunge out? I thought about cutting the plug off the thermo probe and just putting that back, and capping the DPF pressure sensor pipe ports and putting that back, but if I don't have to destroy the probe I'd rather not. Put a plastic bag over them and tape them up? Cut the connectors off and put a heatshrink cap on the cables? Don't really want to hack the harness in case I ever have to re-fit the DPF.
I will say that driving it after the EGR removal felt like it had more get up and go, and after the DPF removal it's more again. I can't imagine what it'd be like if I got a remap.
Next up, a GVIF/Reversing camera and an M2.Connect MOST for bluetooth phone. This thing absorbs money so fast it should be made of fibreglass and have sails.
While I'm here. Anyone know where I can get a replacement eject button for the high-spec 6 CD head unit? The car didn't come with one.