The headlights are only checked for the beam pattern, if they dont let out enough light fit 100w bulbs instead of the 55w. fitting has nothing to do with the MOT unless they are loose so if they are jam something n there to stop them moving and park the car facing a wall and you will see the beam pattern on there, a few of us have projector headlights and we dont have any problems with them.
can you post a photo of them ???
with springs its true to do them in pairs because they squash down over time with gravity and your car wont be level if you only do one, the garage dont know what they are on about with buying them as they are easy to find but £150 is a lot of money for a 60-90 minute job to do both, it took me 2 hours to lower the whole of my car at home so it should take them a lot less than an hour as the rears were the easy ones
If its the same problem with the rear caliper you need to buy that kit in the link i posted, the long black tube in the picture is the part you need as the old ones get destroyed and continue to let water in. Mine have been fine since fitting new rubbers on the slider and sanding all the rust off. I also ditched the copper grease for the sliders and used lucasoil very high temperature waterproof grease for trailer bearings and that combo has sorted it
If it scraped through the MOT on emissions worry about the lambda later, also do you use it on long journeys much as a lot of short journeys sitting in traffic etc also causes emmision problems from the cat not working properly, before an MOT just floor it down a motorway for half an hour and that will burn off any crud and get the cat working properly again
roughly how many miles do you get to the tank and what car is yours 1.6 or v6
I'll get a thermostat one tomorrow not hhadtime tonight…..uUnfortunately i forgot all spanner sizes or I'dhave added them :-( should have written them down sorry :-(
Thanks josh!. That's good to know!.
Would be good to see how much power you could get out of a built KL engine. Be a shame to ditch it for another power plant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiblYUb7sEo
Dyno fans ruin sound a bit but still pretty sweet.
My favourite sound was probably the supercharger though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnwG-0zzJNY
i did the 2.5 swap on my 1995 car no problems
If you can find a rare special edition, the white SE with the nice interior or an equipe with its K8ze engine that has a few more HP and a nice colour and interior :respect:
You are lucky to have fog lights.. here in canada we don't have them :( a lot of people would be ready to pay a lot to get their hands on one of your front bumpers and fogs…
I suspect these labels are rather random. Mine says no A/C but it has it of course, also dashes against the power steering and ABS, through I thought all editions had these anyway - perhaps that's why there is no Y or N?
what does it say on the rocker cover SOHC or DOHC? take a picture and put it up here, also, if you look at either the radiator bracket or under the sill beneath the windscreen you should see a mixture of numbers and letters. that'll tell you which engine you have.
I would love too but this is for me too complicated and a bit out of my league right now. I am just relearning the things I forgot.
Good luck with the sale though bud :D
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Some of American old escorts bushes seems to be the same, but I never had a chance to check. I went to mazda dealers last year and they priced £56.77+vat for each bar.you can't get bushes separately. Have to buy all complete arm.i made bushes myself with liquid polyurethane.the front bush (one, that bolts to the chassis)of this arm I used of vw audi suspension.
Really, wow hows that holding up? Is that in your build thread?
I guess new arms are the way forward then..
