tomble Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 Well that jinxed it. The consensus was an exhaust leak, so the poor neglected starion got wheeled out once again and I went hunting. It didn't take long to find the culprit; the cat was loose. There's a pun there somewhere. But, that meant taking off the bumper for proper access. After wrangling the heat shielding off (literally have to deform it to get it out of there), a bolt fell onto the floor... :D... All three other bolts/nuts were loose as well. As much of a bitch as that heat shielding is to work with, I'm glad it functioned as a bolt bucket. I went around everything else and fortunately there were no other loose bolts. I think one of us just finger-tightened the cat and forgot to torque it down during all the chaos of putting things back together again. It's now secured with red locktite because fuck future Tom, and all the noises and power are back to normal. 8 1 Quote
shrike Posted January 20 Posted January 20 2 hours ago, tomble said: Well that jinxed it. The consensus was an exhaust leak, so the poor neglected starion got wheeled out once again and I went hunting. It didn't take long to find the culprit; the cat was loose. There's a pun there somewhere. But, that meant taking off the bumper for proper access. After wrangling the heat shielding off (literally have to deform it to get it out of there), a bolt fell onto the floor... :D... All three other bolts/nuts were loose as well. As much of a bitch as that heat shielding is to work with, I'm glad it functioned as a bolt bucket. I went around everything else and fortunately there were no other loose bolts. I think one of us just finger-tightened the cat and forgot to torque it down during all the chaos of putting things back together again. It's now secured with red locktite because fuck future Tom, and all the noises and power are back to normal. Prime opportunity to replace the downpipe and do a cat delete :p 3 Quote
xsspeed Posted January 22 Posted January 22 read whole thread over last few days, what a journey, lush doing this with misso and mates On 26/05/2024 at 17:40, tomble said: In that shot you can see where the old Japanese plate lived. Why the fuck advertise Japan-style plates in NZ and then not even punch the holes in the right place to mount them??? Ugh. I'll have to solve that somehow - the brackets behind are as high up as they can be. did you end up doing anything with this, i recently encountered same sort of issue with imported car and would rather not drill the plate (my plates are slim size not the jap size so i dont have any empty space to drill through - would be through a letter/number - the mounting position seems the same relative to top edge as your jap plates) seems like a good several mm by which it ought to sit higher 2 Quote
anglia4 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 My wife's boss has a personalised plate he didn't want to drill holes in, so has attached it with some 3M adhesive rubber strip stuff. Seems to work well. 1 Quote
tomble Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Yeah they should sit a lot higher. The witness marks don't lie. I haven't done anything yet - I'm quite lazy and have enough of a backlog as it is. The spacing washers also are rusting pretty bad (I didn't protect the ground edge but the whole thing's rusting equally, just aliexpress things) so I've got to rethink things. Decent 3M adhesives might work. Sounds so sketch trusting that though... Quote
shrike Posted January 23 Posted January 23 7 minutes ago, tomble said: Yeah they should sit a lot higher. The witness marks don't lie. I haven't done anything yet - I'm quite lazy and have enough of a backlog as it is. The spacing washers also are rusting pretty bad (I didn't protect the ground edge but the whole thing's rusting equally, just aliexpress things) so I've got to rethink things. Decent 3M adhesives might work. Sounds so sketch trusting that though... Good afterble consternoon, what do you mean I have no rear licence plate? Dam petrol thief junkies stealing my plate again 1 Quote
Hurmeez Posted January 24 Posted January 24 For what it's worth I used some generic double sided foam trim tape from Repco to hold the plate on my mum's Accord when I was a kid. Gave the bumper and plate a bloody good solvent based clean and stuck it on. Lasted for years for the rest of the life of the car until it was condemned for windscreen surround rust. 1 Quote
jakesae101 Posted January 25 Posted January 25 3m VHB tape will hold just about anything to anything, its foam based just make sure the surface is clean. Have used it to stick plates on before and never had an issue. 2 Quote
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