Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by josh.huber

I'm lost fbh?

Fuel burning heater I assume? Brad must have an import as I don’t believe the FBH was supplied in the Aus market as it’s not cold enough here.

Originally Posted by veebs

USB 3 for charging speed? I’m considering going over to USB C for this reason...

That should be dictated by the rating of the socket. I've got a 3.1 amp USB in my car which is useless. Most devices get angry and won't work with that rate when they are flat. USB 3 has a much faster data rate.. So good for head units etc

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Fuel burning heater I assume? Brad must have an import as I don’t believe the FBH was supplied in the Aus market as it’s not cold enough here.

I've played with the many possiblities inside my head but none were funny enough to print.

Originally Posted by veebs

USB 3 for charging speed? I’m considering going over to USB C for this reason...

In that case yes, and it’s also a common for most of our USB gear.

In the rear cargo area I have a USB C, and another planned for up the front.

Originally Posted by josh.huber

I've played with the many possiblities inside my head but none were funny enough to print.

It use to mean ****ing Big Hammer

Not mine but someone on the FB chat forum had a bad day.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Not mine but someone on the FB chat forum had a bad day.

If its a diesel, luckily, the air intake is on the drivers side.

Todays clean up :

• Strip, clean, replace the sensor harness and re-assemble the FBH (Yes, it's a fuel burning heater, the Antichrist is a UK import).
• Attempt to clean the coolant bottle and re-install.
• Remember to put oil back in the motor.
• Pressure flush the brakes and clutch.
• Flush the cooling system and new coolant.
• Rotate wheels and adjust the EPB.

It turns out the clutch partition in the brake reservoir is pretty small, and it has a very small equalization hole from the primary, so when pressure flushing the clutch it's very easy to blow all the fluid out requiring a painstaking bleed. Lesson learned.
The fluid wasn't too bad all things considered. The brakes were pretty good compared to the sludge I got out a couple of years ago.

As I was changing coolant brands and the state of the system wasn't great, I used Penrite radiator flush for the first flush. I'm pretty impressed with the amount of grunge it managed to get out actually. Another DI water rinse before popping the new Penrite Blue coolant in.
Because I had the EGR supply plumbing out yesterday, I managed to get the whole 10L+ of DI water in for the first flush, so I really did get it pretty dry.

I had planned on doing a power steering flush, and stripping/lubing the EPB mechanism, but I just ran out of energy. It'll have to settle for an adjustment and I'll schedule it for next time. That damned EGR supply hose just wiped out so many hours.

The FBH is a nice to have. On the rare occasion it is below 6C the heater is working before I get to the end of the road. Now it's working again my next exercise is the manual control, so I can turn it on 15 minutes before I get in the car and it's already warm.

I did buy some big axle stands before I started this one as my normal ones were not high enough to get all 4 wheels off the ground even at full extension. These new ones are not even at half extension.