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03-25-2019, 12:31 PM | #23 |
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Dropped the car off at Fluid MotorUnion in Naperville on Saturday to have the CBU cleaning done. As soon as it's back home, I'm going to do the electrical EGR delete for the short term. Will do the race pipe and EGR cooler removal over the summer when I send the ECU out for tuning.
Suspension work probably in the April/May timeframe. I am starting to hear a creak from the front suspension over low speed bumps, so considering going back to the original plan of replacing everything. |
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03-25-2019, 03:24 PM | #24 |
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Other upcoming maintenance items on your car:
- Harmonic Balancer will need to be replaced if it hasn't been already - Thermostat (this requires removing the EGR cooler, not tough, just tedious and do this while you do the balancer since you have to remove the cowl anyways)
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03-27-2019, 08:17 AM | #26 |
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I thought the whole point of timing chains was that they didn't need replacing, unlike belts?
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03-27-2019, 10:11 AM | #27 |
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That was my understanding as well. I dont think I've heard of anyone here having to replace their timing chain due to wear. If anything, I think the plastic chain guides would fail sooner than the chain itself.
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03-27-2019, 02:21 PM | #28 |
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03-27-2019, 03:41 PM | #29 |
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Ugh. After the cleaning was done, on the final test drive it started throwing fuel pressure sensor codes. They removed my JBD and the codes kept coming back, ran the bleed procedure in case there was an air bubble from the work, no dice. So the new sensor will be going in tomorrow.
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03-27-2019, 08:00 PM | #30 | |
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As for the timing belt mention. Mine has 160ish on it and the chain looks/feels fine, as does the upper oil slinger (plastic part) |
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03-28-2019, 03:09 AM | #31 | |
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Just my 2 cents on the topic |
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03-28-2019, 05:34 AM | #32 | |
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Hopefully picking it up tomorrow. Will do the electrical EGR delete as soon as I get home, and the race pipe/ECU tune over our summer vacation. Will probably do the thermostat and a coolant change at that time as well, considering throwing a fluidampr in the mix at that time also. Just ordered rear pads, an angel eye bulb and the easiest to change of the turbo oil lines yesterday. Plan is to swap that one and clean the surface of the other two, then recheck to see if they're leaking also. Brake pads will go on when I swap to my summer wheels. |
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08-12-2019, 05:32 AM | #33 |
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Did the shocks/struts, springs and associated hardware a couple of months back. Have not done the rest of the suspension (bushings, end links, etc) yet.
Got back from vacation Saturday, so Sunday I reinstalled the tuned DDE, along with the EGR Race pipe and blockoff. Was way more challenging than I expected, so I put off replacing the thermostat and vacuum lines for another time. Good news is I didn't see any oil by the turbo feed/return lines while I was in there, so I think I only had the one leak. Bad news is I'm starting to lose the taste for wrenching on cars. The rest of the suspension is probably the last major work I'll do on this one. If/when the harmonic damper or bearings need replacing, I'll probably just take it to my local indy. I'll keep doing brakes/oil/filters/batteries myself, obviously. |
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