Originally Posted by
PhilipA
Car in million bits.(2002 EU3)
FPR was ****ing diesel out so I removed inlet manifold as I have a new unit with hose.
Decided to renew the contacts in the starter as the car has done 206Kk and living on borrowed time. The big contact was wafer thin. Still a ***** of a job as the nuts and bolts were bloody tight and you cannot get a big socket in there. I used a jack handle as an extension. Still took about an hour out but maybe 15 minutes to repair and 5 minutes back in. The big clunk as I tested the solenoid with a power supply was very satisfying.
I am also replacing the glow plugs . I know there are many that say not necessary, but the only time you can replace them is when you have the manifold off. I have to work out something with the leads as the insulators are all broken, although there is a sleeve that goes over the top of the glow plug. I am replacing with Beru from Mario as the ones in there are Beru, so I assume that is Original.
I would not like to get caught at Thredbo in a snow storm and the bloody car won't start.
Ah well , a couple more days of cursing the unreachability of the manifold bolts.
Regards PhilipA
Curious, how clean is inside of the inlet manifold. The catch can ads make it sound quite dire.
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