Well 'Operation
Restoration Get-it-good-enough-to-be-sold' is back on track - I aim to sell it shortly after 6ish years of ownership. I'm in the process of fixing some niggles that can hinder a car sale.
Installed a "new" bumper, alignment is still slightly off so I'll have to bend the mounting to get the gap to close on the offside headlight. Fresh JDM plates on order.
Err, that's a problem and may explain the lack of cooling fan. My JDM-YO Koyo radiator had sprung a slight leak too so I decided to get a new radiator, thermostat and fan switch. The cluster sensor works and the hoses weren't a problem so I left those.
I did the full coolant flush/bleed but the Fan still didn't come on with the cool-return pipe running hot so I dug deeper to the US forums on what was going on. In short it's probably the coolant sensor for the ECU which can cause the fan to stay permanently on or in my case permanently off. Changing it can help with the fueling too apparently as the ECU doesn't think the engines stone cold. Annoyingly the part comes without an O-Ring so I've ordered one from Honda which comes in on Wednesday (£3 for a 1.5mm O-Ring!
).
The fan comes on when I short it so that rules out the fuse, wiring, relay and fan itself.
I've finally gotten round to changing the passenger door after I had a rather nasty incident with a friend's gate post (Hi
@TaKeN) Which can be seen in this picture:
It's cheaper (although not easier) to buy a door then it is to have it filled and fixed but I did have to have said friend go all 'Hodor' on me as it's certainly not a one man job. Fitting the door back together took a detour as I now want to grease the runners properly (on both sides) and apparently compressor oil is the best thing for that and I'm fresh out.
Once the door is back on then it's off to the bodyshop to have the little scuffs and chips sorted and a lovely key mark that some oxygen thief left for me a few years ago. The wheels worry me but I think a good acid bath will fix those as it's currently very dirty. Then on the day of the sale advert pictures being taken these bad boys are going in, which are spiffing