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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Kenton » Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:02 pm

If you are talking about the shocks mate, they were just from a private seller on fleabay. Original factory items 80 quid for the pair. All original packaging as new. :)
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby metalworker0 » Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:41 pm

i have to wait near to the date when i get it back on the road - no use buying something and ebays 30 day money back thingy runs out and cant claim when i find something wrong with them
i have seen these .

Think i will go for them when I'm ready :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351223895933

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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby metalworker0 » Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:52 pm

while you had the cover off did you check the tappet clearances .. do these ever need doing on at all ?
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Kenton » Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:16 am

To be honest I didn't really think about it at the time as the engine sounds fine. It would be interesting to find out more about the adjustment though! :idea:
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby blue estate » Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:36 pm

Changed a blown brake light bulb and fitted some led number plate lights and flattened the battery :oops: so that’s now on charge ,
I’m finally gonna change the headlights tomorrow as the old ones lenses are Fooked :evil:
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Kenton » Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:14 am

blue estate wrote:Changed a blown brake light bulb and fitted some led number plate lights and flattened the battery :oops: so that’s now on charge ,
I’m finally gonna change the headlights tomorrow as the old ones lenses are Fooked :evil:

You must have the superior individual number plate lights on yours blue. The ones on mine are the awful ones which are built into the plastic trim above the plate. The bulbs have started to melt the plastic that is around the bulb holders :roll: I have fitted aftermarket LED's before, but they weren't great, so went back to the original filament bulbs. I can get a new unit, but for the whole assembly, frauds want 75 quid... I can't even retro fit the later ones, even from a 2006 :cry:
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby blue estate » Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:25 am

Kenton wrote:
blue estate wrote:Changed a blown brake light bulb and fitted some led number plate lights and flattened the battery :oops: so that’s now on charge ,
I’m finally gonna change the headlights tomorrow as the old ones lenses are Fooked :evil:

You must have the superior individual number plate lights on yours blue. The ones on mine are the awful ones which are built into the plastic trim above the plate. The bulbs have started to melt the plastic that is around the bulb holders :roll: I have fitted aftermarket LED's before, but they weren't great, so went back to the original filament bulbs. I can get a new unit, but for the whole assembly, frauds want 75 quid... I can't even retro fit the later ones, even from a 2006 :cry:

Yep I do :mrgreen:
I also managed to find a proper connect passengers seat in good nick
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby blue estate » Sun Oct 10, 2021 4:51 pm

I have done many things or my Connect today :shock:
Changed the headlights as the old ones were a bit yellow
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Also number plate lights
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Changed the drivers door check strap ,
Changed the inter cooler using Kenton’s method :mrgreen:
Washed it :shock: :oops:
Unblocked the washer jets as the spray pattern was worse than a Man with a dodgy prostrate :lol:
Checked the tyre pressures
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Kenton » Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:04 pm

Nice one blue! Good few jobs out of the way before winter really hits! 8) Glad you got the intercooler done too. Not such a difficult upgrade to do. What mine really needs right now is a damn good wash!! :( :roll:
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Altransit » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:01 pm

blue estate wrote:I have done many things or my Connect today :shock:
Changed the headlights as the old ones were a bit yellow

Did you try giving them a refurb Pete?
The ones on my Mk7 looked like the LH one, so a gave them a good hard rub with some metal polish, and they came up much more like your new one :)
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby blue estate » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:37 pm

Altransit wrote:
blue estate wrote:I have done many things or my Connect today :shock:
Changed the headlights as the old ones were a bit yellow

Did you try giving them a refurb Pete?
The ones on my Mk7 looked like the LH one, so a gave them a good hard rub with some metal polish, and they came up much more like your new one :)

The drivers side light was cracked at the top any way so needed replacing
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Altransit » Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:40 pm

blue estate wrote:The drivers side light was cracked at the top any way so needed replacing

Fair doos :mrgreen:
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby blue estate » Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:38 pm

Few little bits today ,
Changed the high level brake light , cleaned it out :oops: , swapped back to the Ford radio , swapped the passengers seat from a fold up one to a proper seat , change the key and separate remote for the all in one type
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby Kenton » Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:20 pm

Replaced the crank shaft oil seal, as it has given up in catastrophic style and sprayed oil everywhere!. Had to replace the auxiliary belt as that had also partly shredded because of the oil ingress. We realised when removing the crank pulley, that one section of the aux belt had stripped and wrapped around the rear of the pulley... A seal, belt, oil change, and steam clean later, plus a test drive to ensure the leak was gone, and she's back on the road once again :D 8)
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Re: What did you do to your connect today?

Postby metalworker0 » Sat Nov 13, 2021 8:29 pm

Kenton wrote:Replaced the crank shaft oil seal, as it has given up in catastrophic style and sprayed oil everywhere!. Had to replace the auxiliary belt as that had also partly shredded because of the oil ingress. We realised when removing the crank pulley, that one section of the aux belt had stripped and wrapped around the rear of the pulley... A seal, belt, oil change, and steam clean later, plus a test drive to ensure the leak was gone, and she's back on the road once again :D 8)


all the bits you bought for that; seals gaskets etc and timing cover alignment tool .some would be ford and expensive - I don't envy you. well i do for you having the tools 8)



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