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So no one has any experience with radar detectors?

I had a uniden back in the day before laser was a thing, I realised it was a wast of time when I got pinged by a mobile camera, the cam flashed me then the detector went off !

Now I just gotta get my head around the indicators/hazard lights circuits, should have it finished next week.

Al good after seeing a blurry wiring diagram I realised there,s a "wiper relay" missing. A bit of head scratching and I worked it out!

This rekindled an old memory, I had a red 3 door a long time ago I think it had an a15 under the bonnet too!

On 15/12/2021 at 08:45, Goat said:

Just when I though the mechanical gods were cutting me some slack with the local seals, I went to reassemble the rocker assembly only to find out why this head was in the parts bin. The thread was completely stripped on one of the bolts.

One with a dowel no less. Yay.

Things ground to a halt, as I didn't have any helicoils.

Bike night Tuesdays are great. And the infamous Seedy Al turned up:

With one of these:

 

Ooosh, M8x1.25 here we come.
A quick helicoil and we were back together

Gaskets on (Its so happy!):

Head on

Timing belts are brand spankers even though they look old. Just got a bit filthy from the trip plus engine disassembly and cleaning.
Believe it or not, I am cleaning it up as I go. The engine was filthy, and the paint has come off in places and the alloy is stained dark. So can never get it looking mint without a spraybomb. Orders of magnitude better than what it was though.

The engine even does a complete 720 degrees without binding. So I must have done something right?

Just need to set the valves then the covers can go back on. Tonights job.

Back like 100 years ago rebuilt my Z1000 I ended up just Helicoiling every thing on the motor I just couldn't trust that old aluminium (It was only 11ish years old then)

On 01/03/2022 at 10:18, rotorhoe said:

My Dad had a book he wrote on my wiring, I'll need a bit of time to find it again but can provide you some pics if you get stuck. Others building up 808s/3s found it really useful. Feel free to PM if needed and I'll find it 

Gidday Rotorhoe, any luck "finding it"? (I "PM'd" ya!)

2 hours ago, kiwi808 said:

I have a wiring diagram but only shows the full car?

 

Hey Kiwi808, could ya scan it with better detail so I can read it? (Please)

The owner got some RX3 diagrams, after going through these I see there is a special wiper relay! no wonder I couldn't work it out, I was about to invent some multi relay device to get it to work and it looks like that's what I'll have to do now as that relay is awol!

I'm in the middle of a complete rewire using the original wiring that previous owner complexly removed with a lot of cutting some bits are missing and I'm having issues with the wiper motor wiring particularly the "park" If anyone has a wiring diagram I could use. copy , buy, would be really helpful.

On 24/01/2022 at 20:45, Yowzer said:

Man, the number of cats I've hollowed out at work and emptied into the dumpster..

I hope you are aware how bad for your health what your doing is and you are using a decent respirator !?