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01-08-2009, 04:10 PM | #81 |
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it is just surface rust as ryan pointed out before. he said that the pannels are zinc plated and therefore wont rust. hence what i said it looks like bugs
i have bout 30+ 1mm chips on both fenders and they are there for bout a year now.. havent rusted thru yet so my guess is that ryan is right (like on most other things he sais) on a different note i just changed my O2 sensor and that + the pannel + the new distributor insulation plate means that i feel like i droped a whole new different engine in there. i never remember it having this much pickup.. also the FUKING BLACK SMOKE i had coming out of the exhaust is finaly gone curtesy of the new O2 sensor (the old one was fubard totaly) which should mean that the petrol gauge drops slower now Tony |
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Lol i remember when i first picked up my car, it was zippy and quick and now it feels slow , i think its the fact i'm not hooning it anymore lol might be the reason why i've done 320k at still at the 1/4 of a tank mark rather than 0/4:P
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Rofl nicely put:P
my chip has rust though, i'll point it out to ryan or tony on a cruise |
01-08-2009, 05:33 PM | #85 |
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lol duly noted
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12-08-2009, 05:56 PM | #86 |
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well after changing my O2 sensor i am pleased to report that after trashing it for a week my consumption is still only 8L/100 km and thats compared to 10L/100km when the o2 was fubard this week im gonna baby it to c if i can get 6.5 like i used to haha awesome
and at cosmo if zinc plating is anything like how they place sacrificial zinc on a boat hull, it doesnt matter where it is as long as it is phisically conected to that piece of metal, its fine, as zinc gives its electrons more readily thru the host metal to the rusting reaction, saving the host (note that on boats a slab of sacreficial metal is welded to a part of the boat where it will create the least amount of drag ) |
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hey tony what did that O2 sensor cost you? i'm going to run the codes but i'd say mine isn't in much better condition
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70 from astroboy
and as for codes lol my TEN conector is not sending any voltage thru it, so i cant enter diagnostics... i dunno what it is, but i tried diagnostics, and i shorted TEN to GND and FEN wasnt working, so then i checked the GND off the batery, and it was clearly working, then i checked the TEN and the bulb didnt light up.. dissapointing.. |
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hey tony, have u got a pic of your old and new o2 sensor for comparison?
i checked my sensor a couple of weeks ago and it looked ok but im always doing 10L/100km
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10L? I get 11-12L. Maybe I have deeper problems
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Mine's pretty charcoal coloured, but the holes arent blocked. Im not sure if the colour matters. From what ive seen its only bad if the holes are blocked but yeah I dunno.
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well if thats the only thing than you can clean the holes, but if the ceramic filament inside gets caked its not gona work properly i dont think..
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well....when you connect TEN to GND via a bulb it may not light it up because TEN terminal is not a voltage source like a battery (even though its at 12V), so again not enough current to light up a bulb. If you have a multimeter you can check the voltage at TEN to be sure.
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