Waking up the FD, the rebuild of car and life

Oyvindjs · 04-25-2012, 11:22 AM

Finally, we bought the house and i have a nice garage to do work on my cars..!
Started taring down the engine from the top, just to inspect, study and have a look.
The engine blew a waterseal, so complete stripdown is in order. As i dont have an engine lift available now, ill start with the stripdown while the engine is in the car...
MILLIONS of clips and connectors, crisp dry wires and bonehard small hoses and crap...! This has a mazda reman engine in it, but it appears that the people that swapped the engine, pulled loose the clips and connectors by pulling the wires.. wich exposed the copper... that started to erode in the seaside salty weathercondidions... And having a lol-vented hood alowing water to drip down on wires and connectors probably havent helped much... a new wiring harness is in order..!

hmnmm, no wonder it started to leak water on that last trip..!

the infamous "crows nest" DjeeeZUZ...!

04-25-2012, 11:22 AM	#6
Oyvindjs Rotary Fan in Training Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 78 Rep Power: 14	Finally, we bought the house and i have a nice garage to do work on my cars..! Started taring down the engine from the top, just to inspect, study and have a look. The engine blew a waterseal, so complete stripdown is in order. As i dont have an engine lift available now, ill start with the stripdown while the engine is in the car... MILLIONS of clips and connectors, crisp dry wires and bonehard small hoses and crap...! This has a mazda reman engine in it, but it appears that the people that swapped the engine, pulled loose the clips and connectors by pulling the wires.. wich exposed the copper... that started to erode in the seaside salty weathercondidions... And having a lol-vented hood alowing water to drip down on wires and connectors probably havent helped much... a new wiring harness is in order..! hmnmm, no wonder it started to leak water on that last trip..! the infamous "crows nest" DjeeeZUZ...!