phatbenny
New member
I spent an afternoon with my head either in or under the engine bay today. Got a few jobs out of the way. I replaced the fuel fitler, with a Halfords one. See through sides mean you can spend hours watching the petrol get filtered. Great. Also replaced the Marinelli distributor cap and rotor arm. Another quick job was replacing the air filter, just with a standard one at the moment, haven't got the cash for a K&N one at the moment. I also replaced the aluminium flexi duct that goes from the exhaust manifold to the heater. I couldn't find 35mm OD tube anywhere so I had to go with 40mm, but by cutting it slightly too long it is jammed in place with the air filter housing.
Finally I wanted to replace the standard horn with a spare air horn my brother had knocking about. Step one - worked out where origional horn was, behind bumper. Step two - decided against the five minute job of snipping the wire and attaching them to the new horn. Step three - spent over an hour wrestling with the bumper
. Step four - attach horn and re-assemble. Step five - scare local dogs with new horn
The upshot of all this is that I worked out why the left front tyre was rubbing on the bumper. The last person to take it off broke the plastic bolt sleeve off the inside of the bumper so it was attached with a piece of garden wire . Taking it off this time the top two bolts of the centre bracket also sheared off.
I am now thinking about fixing all of this properly. Rather than spending an hour in the mud in a scrap yard, ricksing doing the same thin again, does anybody have any of the parts lying around they are willing to sell/give. Ideally I need an entire fron bumper. Failing that I need the two front brackets, and a square headed bolt for the right hand side. Any help, much appreciated.
Finally I wanted to replace the standard horn with a spare air horn my brother had knocking about. Step one - worked out where origional horn was, behind bumper. Step two - decided against the five minute job of snipping the wire and attaching them to the new horn. Step three - spent over an hour wrestling with the bumper
. Step four - attach horn and re-assemble. Step five - scare local dogs with new horn The upshot of all this is that I worked out why the left front tyre was rubbing on the bumper. The last person to take it off broke the plastic bolt sleeve off the inside of the bumper so it was attached with a piece of garden wire
. Taking it off this time the top two bolts of the centre bracket also sheared off.I am now thinking about fixing all of this properly. Rather than spending an hour in the mud in a scrap yard, ricksing doing the same thin again, does anybody have any of the parts lying around they are willing to sell/give. Ideally I need an entire fron bumper. Failing that I need the two front brackets, and a square headed bolt for the right hand side. Any help, much appreciated.
