What work did you do on your car today?

[DRGNBZ]

[brent88]

tryed to replace fuel filter but think they gave me the wrong 1. even when tightened so tight that the ends of the new fuel filter bent a couple of mm's it leaked.

the thread length looked different. they gave me 2 washers but they were small, they wernt supposed to go in the smaller end of the filter were they? the pipe was flanged at the end so it shouldent have leaked if it was the right 1 yeah? even with the old filter back on their is thread exposed (drivers side) on the nut with the external thread on it

[bduffman]

big side uses the washers
washer pipe washer bolt
make sure theres no washers still stuck to the bolt or pipe

i had a few issues when i did mine but ended up getting it all working

[silverGPX]

oh dude hope u havent wrecked the threads on your car. Washers are on either side of the top most pipe.

[brent88]

nah it works great with the old fuel filter, its just the new 1 leaks. the side with the smaller nut has no washer on it though.

[silverGPX]

yeah nah it doesnt need a washer on the bottom one.

[brent88]

yeah but i put the new 1 in and it just leakeed from the side with the smaller nut, it was a black ryco filter and had several positions for the larger fuel line end to sit (looks like a crown) brought from supercheap. only used 1 washer on the big end but used the old washer because the 2 they supplied me were tiny and wouldent fit over either of the threads

[silverGPX]

thats odd, everyones getting problems with leakages when i did mine once and it took half an hour. I got mine from camskill though.

[brent88]

hmmm, when i got the part supercheap only had 1 listing for fto which was 2l v6 so maybe they are different between the mivec and non mivec motor? can anyone clarify this 4 me?

[silverGPX]

what ryco number was it

[aza013]

Today I put in a new head unit with full blue tooth, USB. Also put in a hands free for the phone all with in the head unit.
Only took about an hour to do.
I can even make calls via the head unit it may be old tech but hay I'm an old man so I am not right up there with the new gizmos

[brent88]

ryco z441
has 0804 on bottom of filter but not the box

[bduffman]

The bottem one isn't tight enough then
Benzo told me to cut a closed ring spanner and that worked really well
Mine was leaking as well but a cut spanner on the small side and washer pipe washer bolt on the big side and it was all good
Just take the bolt to the hardware store and pick up 2 small copper washers that will fit

[Kustom]

Today I put in a new head unit with full blue tooth, USB. Also put in a hands free for the phone all with in the head unit.
Only took about an hour to do.
I can even make calls via the head unit it may be old tech but hay I'm an old man so I am not right up there with the new gizmos

Nice! Double din? Pics or it didn't happen

[aza013]

Today I put in a new head unit with full blue tooth, USB. Also put in a hands free for the phone all with in the head unit.
Only took about an hour to do.
I can even make calls via the head unit it may be old tech but hay I'm an old man so I am not right up there with the new gizmos

Nice! Double din? Pics or it didn't happen

No not double din as the weight is to high in them for me.
I will get pics for you
I now have to make a blanking panel to go under it.

[brent88]

thanx bduff but silver gpx said it dosent need a washer on the smaller end and thats the 1 thats leaking, i know i had it tight enough because i bent the filter and i had my mate hold the ratchet on the 19mm bolt whilst i did up the smaller 1

[Kustom]

Today I put in a new head unit with full blue tooth, USB. Also put in a hands free for the phone all with in the head unit.
Only took about an hour to do.
I can even make calls via the head unit it may be old tech but hay I'm an old man so I am not right up there with the new gizmos

Nice! Double din? Pics or it didn't happen

No not double din as the weight is to high in them for me.

[aza013]

well you should know what I am like by now hehehe

[bduffman]

Do you honestly care that much about weight reduction ? If so that's just stupid biggest weight reduction you can make is drive with half a tank of fuel insted of full now you can add 25kgs or so and won't be any heavyer then stock

[Kustom]