LancerL
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LancerL's post in Vibration On Radiator/ac Fan was marked as the answer
Today I went to an electrician, once removing the fan assembly, the root cause was not with the bearing, somebody has repaired the motor earlier and the makabass has not properly tighten the nut that fan blade fix in to the motor's armature shaft.
since there was play, it has developed by time and causing a vibration when running.
It was not in a condition to tight up as the thread have gone halfway, and the motor also giving some noise when rotating (Could be due to earlier repair).
So decided to replace with a recon one.
Visited several recon shops to find the exact match and ended up in T*aI*yo Mount lavinia who quoted Rs. 2,900-/ which was damn reasonable as other places quoted from 4,500 to 3,000.
Labour cost was Rs. 1,000/- which was way too high for the job as it was just a simple removal, which even my self could manage at home.
Now there is no vibration when fan running and I would here that nice wind waving noise.... which is so nice to hear.
Thanks guys for prompt reply's and guidance given.
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LancerL's post in Engine Miss & Petrol Smell In Cold Start was marked as the answer
Hi all, sorry for the long silence...
At last I found which was causing above miss in cold start and the petrol smell
You might remember that I did a DIY fuel injector cleaning sometime back?
One thing I found while I was re-fixing the injectors to the inlet manifold is that one or two Orings which seals injector to the inlet manifold was loosen.
Since that was a afternoon and I was tired with cleaning, I did not bothered to visit any auto part shop to replace those.
But with further reading of the forum for similar incidents faced by other members, I got a clue that this might due to sucking excess air from the loosen Orings to the particular cylinder or two which cause a lean mixture.
So the oxygen sensor which detects it, signal injectors to flow more fuel as it thinks the mixture is lean, when mixture is too rich due to above, it will cause an imbalance which we called it as an Engine Miss Fire and smelled un-burned petrol from the tail pipe.
So that coming weekend I again removed injectors and taken out all inlet manifold side Orings and took it to a Auto part shop, cost for four Orings was just Rs. 85/- so I brought another set for further use.
Replaced all four Orings carefully, cleaned manifold holes with throttle body cleaner and a paper tissue and reinstalled injectors back to the manifold.
Disconnected positive battery terminal for a while to reset ECU and reconnected and start the engine and let it to worm up and had a decent drive about 15mins with A/C off.
Its almost nearly two months by now to the job and I have never got this miss and petrol smell again.
So my final conclusion was that this was due to one or more vacuum leaking Oring from inlet manifold.
Project was so interesting although it took lot of time but the satisfaction I got out of this cannot me measured by money.
But if I took this to a Garage for the same, my total bill would exceed Rs. 10,000/- for sure including a tuneup, replacement of Plugs, Fuel filter, Air filter and etc...
Thanks a lot for all of you who has given advises and directions to get this success.
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LancerL's post in Brake Fluid Refill Interval was marked as the answer
Found the issue!
There is a tiny leak between the master cylinder and plastic reservoir it seems.
Yesterday engine was damn hot and couldn’t touch that area, but today I touch under the master cylinder and found that there was some fluid.
Last time also I experienced the same issue soon after replacing the master cylinder and the reason was that two plastic nozzles of reservoir are not tight enough with master cylinder holes.
Ultimately they brought two screw type nylon washers from a lath shop, which filled the gap and fixed.
Looks like same place start leaking.
Is nylon melt down for brake fluid?
If that is the case, what's the best adhesive to use which doesn’t react for brake fluid?
Anyway I will be opening a new thread to get some advice on brake fluid resistant adhesive as the topic moved in to a different direction. http://forum.autolanka.com/topic/17436-brake-fluid-resistant-adhesive/
Thank you all for the prompt support!
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LancerL's post in Tool To Pull Spark Plug Wire From The Plug. was marked as the answer
Ultimately was able to pull it out a while ago.
What I have simply done was brought a 'metal binding string' from a hardware shop, insert it inside the deep, rubber plug base and twisted.
Then the other two ends twisted with a screw driver rod while keeping screw driver horizontal (where I could pull it from my both hands)
It came out without a big hassel.
Method was so simple but took time to get it to my mind as I was busy with finding a tool for it.
Thanks Rumesh and Davy for the post which direct me to think an alternative.
