04-10-2015, 08:34 PM
well i think its time i did another updated.
i eventually decided to through my car back to together (still running awful) see how far i got to driving it home would the be alot easier to work on. all went well.
brought a seal kit (turns out they sent the wrong one) and stripped the pump down to be cleaned.
learnt a lot. some bits in there were pretty grim but nothing that would suggest it would run like it did 
it then dawned on me that last year in college we were trying to fix a Mitsubishi of some kind with a Bosch pump, exhibiting the exact same symptoms.
now then spoke to the diesel fogie (who fixed it) and by god did he know how to waffle so i knew it would be risky but tried asking for an 11mm pump head, he could not comprehend the idea of modifying a fuel pump said it wouldn't work so i gave up. but what he did say is the Mitsubishi was just a couple of teeth out of time soooo back to the drawing board.
finished the pump and gave it a lick of paint to make it look oh so pretty
only had one bit left over which is good going right?.........
anyone got any ideas?
just about to put the pump back in the car try turning it over by hand and it jams....
stipped it down another couple of times and realised i had snapped the flux capacitor and warped one of the stability drives *bollocks*
(new bits on its way)
by now im pretty fed up with it all, so moved on to the less important details starting with masking the lights.
first of all how big are your ovens i could only just fit one light in at a stupid angle. after a while of struggling with the sticky stuff i got them both free (could of maybe gone hotter for longer but didnt want to risk it)
next task sand them down and what a pig, after trying to get every single bit of chrome of the fronts i decided F it That'll Do and took to spaying them.
this was were it all went wrong. do it inside i thought. itll be fine i thought. oooh how wrong i was. HOW DOES IT GO SO FAR!!!
either way pretty pleased with the results
not looking forward to scrapping the rest of the crud.
next immediate jobs on the agenda:
put lights back together
tint tail lights slightly
tint fogs yellow
fit some night breakers and LED sides
drop the back another 20mm
ooh and probably try and get my car running at some point
i eventually decided to through my car back to together (still running awful) see how far i got to driving it home would the be alot easier to work on. all went well.
brought a seal kit (turns out they sent the wrong one) and stripped the pump down to be cleaned.
it then dawned on me that last year in college we were trying to fix a Mitsubishi of some kind with a Bosch pump, exhibiting the exact same symptoms.
now then spoke to the diesel fogie (who fixed it) and by god did he know how to waffle so i knew it would be risky but tried asking for an 11mm pump head, he could not comprehend the idea of modifying a fuel pump said it wouldn't work so i gave up. but what he did say is the Mitsubishi was just a couple of teeth out of time soooo back to the drawing board.
finished the pump and gave it a lick of paint to make it look oh so pretty
only had one bit left over which is good going right?.........
just about to put the pump back in the car try turning it over by hand and it jams....
stipped it down another couple of times and realised i had snapped the flux capacitor and warped one of the stability drives *bollocks*
by now im pretty fed up with it all, so moved on to the less important details starting with masking the lights.
first of all how big are your ovens i could only just fit one light in at a stupid angle. after a while of struggling with the sticky stuff i got them both free (could of maybe gone hotter for longer but didnt want to risk it)
next task sand them down and what a pig, after trying to get every single bit of chrome of the fronts i decided F it That'll Do and took to spaying them.
this was were it all went wrong. do it inside i thought. itll be fine i thought. oooh how wrong i was. HOW DOES IT GO SO FAR!!!
either way pretty pleased with the results
not looking forward to scrapping the rest of the crud.
next immediate jobs on the agenda:
put lights back together
tint tail lights slightly
tint fogs yellow
fit some night breakers and LED sides
drop the back another 20mm
ooh and probably try and get my car running at some point