Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

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SiC wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 6:42 pm Nevermind, Google found it.

Haynes: http://www.jaguardriver.nu/manualer/XJ4 ... Manual.pdf

Official Workshop: http://www.jaguarclub.sk/service/x300.pdf

If they don't work, I have the original PDFs in the downloads folder on my phone and I can upload them to somewhere.
Already have these downloaded. ;)
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MRustbucket wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 7:05 pmThe 3.2 has a ZF4HP22 transmission which does have a changeable a filter.
Cheers for all the details. My knowledge is a bit stuck in the past (BW35s, GM400s and such)
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A Jizz catch-up.

Before I went over on Jaaag collection shenanigans, Mrs H noted that the Jizz had got noisier and the exhaust might need looking at.

Alert readers may remember that the exhaust broke at the backbox flange back on 16th March 2018, at that time I welded the flange back on as a temporary* measure and ordered in a new Honda backbox. Roll on to 23rd April 2019 (13 months / 14,729 miles) later and it was still fine and the new backbox was still in the shed.
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I examined the exhaust at the rear of the rear flange and at the side near the hanger ahead of he middle silencer (they can stress crack inside the weld there) and decided to put it on the long finger.

After coming back from the Jaaag weekend Sunday 5th May, I returned to work that afternoon only to receive calls/messages from Mrs H that the exhaust had fallen off the car at the back. As it was a short distance from the house, instructions were given to return home with the car. Lots of grumbling was had about the episode as Honda Jr 2 had to get to the GP for an appointment (and later hospital).

On returning home at 2am, I could see what the problem was in the headlamp beam of the BM. The problem with the exhaust was not my welding (indeed that was still doing its job) but it had split next to the weld on the adjacent flange which is part of the middle section, so a plan was considered to get the welder out again. This turned out not to be necessary as I had another exhaust to pinch from the old Jizz. For a few days the car went sans backbox to keep mobile.
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In the meantime I went to the local motor factors the following day, Mon 6th, to sort out some gaskets. Stuff was ordered and collected on Wed 8th. This ended up being a fat-fingered fuck-up because instead of getting the ones I wanted - Bosal 256-520, the man had ordered 256-250, they looked the same, but they were fook all use to me as they're 10mm smaller and for a Yaris. Getting the correct bits added a couple more days to the wait, so it was Fri 10th before I was ready to start on the job.

As this is a keeper, I wanted to get hold of a Honda middle section, so went online hunting for part numbers/prices, starting with Lings. They were €218, and others online similar. Whilst doing this, I thought I'd price up other service items needed. Given that Cox's wouldn't ship an exhaust because of size I thought I'd drop the local Honda stealer, Fitzpatrick's an email. Sent one off at 5am Fri 10th and didn't get a reply by 4pm, so I chased them up on the phone. The Parts Manager said the first one wasn't received so I resent the email which he replied back to 40 minutes later with surprisingly cheap prices for Honda (you can see below I was €130 over with my guesstimate),
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but being a Friday and 5pm this had knocked delivery of the pipe into the Wed 15th / Thu 16th. Paid over the phone and arrange to collect them the following week. I got a call on Thu 16th, but it only rang once before I had a chance to answer. I planned to go down on Friday (usual day off), but as I got there just after one o'clock, there was nobody on the parts desk as they all had cleared off for lunch. Reception couldn't help me, so I had to go all the way back to pick up Honda Jr 2 from school at 2pm and make another round trip to the dealer.
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Back to the 11th May: The next problem was the cat. The front cat section is attached to the middle by three studs and nuts which are a cunt to undo and a lot of exhaust places can't be arsed and rather sell a new one. The correct course of action is remove the middle + cat completely and do the separation off the car. A dry run was performed on the old Jizz as it was already up on axle stands. The wasn't too much effort and quite easy,
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the same couldn't be said of the flange nuts, so out with the hacksaw...
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Three nuts sawn off and it could be separated. However now I had three broken studs to deal with. Out with the hacksaw again...
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No luck. Drill time. After a lot of fannying around with drills, I get eventually get the bastards out. Those studs are splined...
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Armed with three fresh bolts and some copper locking nuts I was good to get on with the actual swap. While working against the weekend free-time clock under the car last Sunday, a neighbour came round to offer to cut the grass. I hadn't done it this year so far and it was embarrassingly long. I have no shame though, but agreed for peace and quiet with Mrs H that he could cut it if it was really no bother for him.

After losing a sodding small m6 bolt that held a wiring plug bracket onto the engine and spending an hour or so looking for the bastard that fell, but not to the ground, I robbed one from the old Jizz and finished up. Got to work a couple of hours late to boot, but nobody was too fussed as Sunday is quiet.

Doing a quick test before I left, it was noted that the EML was lit. Ah bollocks, time to get my Chinese knock-off Honda HIM / HDS out, the only problem being I had to junk the last shit Toshiba lappy out, so I had nothing with the HDS software on to use. I do have an old Eee PC900 netbook handy, so gave that a whirl this weekend. That was shit and coming up with error messages of its own, so I've spent most of this weekend melting my head trying to get it running and talking to the HIM (which it isn't so far) to get the codes out of it. It'll be something to do with the pre/post oxygen sensors or wiring, but which exactly, I don't know.

The cat/middle exhaust taken off this car merited a different approach to the flange separation. Of the three locking flange nuts, the top one corrodes the least. I was able to hammer a socket over this one and actually undo it. The lower pair which gets the road shit, needed something else - namely big fire and the right tools. Time to try out those Koken Nut Twisters against these two rusty nuts.
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Fire up the fire
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Select a tight fitting nut twister and hammer it on.
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Feel it bite more and crack the nut loose
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And off
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Round 2. This was a bit harder.

First moar fire.
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Then remove all the flaky rust. Look at the state of that now, what hope have I got?
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As the diameter is a bit smaller than the last due to corrosion, I'm having a bit of bother getting the socket to grip,
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so it's down from a 12mm to 10mm (as I have no eleven in this set although you can get them)
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This while gripping, doesn't have enough depth onto the socket, so although it starts to turn and loosen off, it's shredding the end of the nut. As the flange of the nut has a gap behind it now, I can jump up to the 17mm and grip the shoulder.
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And the second one is off. The threads on the studs are fine for reuse and I haven't touch the hacksaw.

Koken Nut Twister sockets (3/8" drive on rail RS3127/7) 9/10. Whilst they are pricey, they come in more gradual sizings than the Irwin Bolt-Grips. Ideally I'd have got better purchase on the nut with a 11mm, but managed to work my way round that. To use these successfully you need to use a size that is a good tight hammer-on fit and not at all slack. Infinitely better than having to dick around sawing/grinding/drilling those studs out and saves loads of time.
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I am a twat.

After re-installing everything, I couldn't get the HDS to talk to the car, but another piece of software did, so it isn't a hardware issue.
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(normal-sized hand, smoll computer)


Two DTCs showed up:

P0135 - Primary HO2S (Sensor 1) Heater Circuit Malfunction
P1352 - No. 1/No. 4 Cylinder Rear Ignition Coil Circuit Malfunction

I don't remember the cat or sensors being shit in the spares car, but I may have fucked the wires up along the way.

Anyway, investigated the P1352 code first (this doesn't trigger the MIL). The connector was connected, but not pushed all the way home - what a TWAT. That cleared fine after that. Must have done it recently when changing all eight spark plugs.

Attention turned to the primary O2 sensor on the cat. Peering down the back of the engine bay, I could see the connector and it was connected, but didn't look fully home (that'll be the same TWAT that was working underneath the car putting it back together in a rush). It's also a bit of a cunt to reach from up top if you have fat arms and even if you don't, then you stand a good change of burning your left forearm off the exhaust manifold. Managed to reach down, unplug it, unclip from bracket, re-plug it (this time fully home) and re-clip it onto the bracket. Code cleared and stayed cleared.
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This weekend saw me messing around with a lawnmower instead of getting on with real car jobs and also messing around with a power washer instead of getting on with real car jobs.

I did however wash one garden ornament.
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and the nearest side of one of the others.
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I should really dig that Pug axle out from the depths of the shed and sort it out.
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Got round to changing the oil, oil filter and air filter on the Jizz Saturday night. (now 123,716 miles)

Sunday afternoon, R1100RT, just before getting to work...

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Just about run-in!
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A couple of weeks ago I bought some tyres for the RT.
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Bridgestone BT023, same as last time. Last time though (Nov '17) they cost €195 for a pair delivered. This time it was only €172. I've yet to try all-new whiter-than-white Bridgestone T30 > T30 Evo > T31, because I can't be arsed and they cost more. The first time round I went to get tyres over here, I traipsed over towards Dublin in the car and got one fitted to a loose wheel for +€10 (still on bike +€20). The next time I thought I'd get it done locally, so checked with the man if he was happy to fit my tyres and how much he would charge. Ordered them online and sat on them until I was ready. Whilst that was less petrol it was €15 for a loose wheel and he didn't have any adaptors for balancing motorcycle wheels/tyres. He only did the rear for me at that time.

Given the cost, I just did the front tyre myself. It was a piece of piss compared to the shit time I had with the poxy trailer wheels, they were right little cunts to get the tyres on/off.

This time round, I thought I should really balance them up too. So whilst looking at some shonky balancers (and the required adaptors for the rear) that'd take up more non-room in my shed, I dropped $125 on this Marc Parnes:
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Arrived today (ordered 6th June) and it's a lovely piece of machining. Bully bonus was no taxes to stump up for. :mrgreen:

The tyres on the bike have a little more left in them and anyway I still have to get my finger out and get the valves and weights ordered.
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Make sure and post about balancing the wheel with that balancer.
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