A very thorough service...
Posted: 19 Jan 2011, 15:44
Well, we collect the van this weekend...
It's got a lovely shiny new MOT as of Monday (driveshaft gaiters, 'screen washers but nothing else needed) but I've deliberately requested it not be serviced. I want to get it up on a ramp and go over it myself - as ever with a new arrival, a very thorough service helps familiarise me and helps prevent problems. It's an '88 2.1i, manual, power-steering, 240k km. That'd make it a DJ lump, right?
So - there's a shopping list being built up from a certain online supplier. The rough plan includes...
Plugs, leads, cap, rotor
Oil & filter (I've got a lot of 5w30 full synth in stock - too thin?)
Air filter
Fuel filter
Coolant & thermostat
Brake fluid (hydraulic clutch, pressure bleed only?)
Gearbox oil (FOUR litres of 80w90? Wow...)
The exhaust's going to get a very good prod - it looks... crusty.
Anything else I should be having a good look at? What's the score on points to grease? (Sliding door?) Anything specific in the injection that's likely to benefit from a can of carb cleaner? (Idle valve, AMM, throttle body?)
Body's very good - it's had a lot of paint, and the seams were definitely not perfect beforehand, but there doesn't seem to be anything much hiding. The service book is more-or-less stamped up from new until it left Germany, and it's since had "the brakes done" - what that involves precisely, I know not, hence fluid anyway. It's apparently had a fuel tank at some stage in the not too-far-distant. A set of matched near-new Maxxis van tyres on it - not my first choice of brand, but...
It's got a lovely shiny new MOT as of Monday (driveshaft gaiters, 'screen washers but nothing else needed) but I've deliberately requested it not be serviced. I want to get it up on a ramp and go over it myself - as ever with a new arrival, a very thorough service helps familiarise me and helps prevent problems. It's an '88 2.1i, manual, power-steering, 240k km. That'd make it a DJ lump, right?
So - there's a shopping list being built up from a certain online supplier. The rough plan includes...
Plugs, leads, cap, rotor
Oil & filter (I've got a lot of 5w30 full synth in stock - too thin?)
Air filter
Fuel filter
Coolant & thermostat
Brake fluid (hydraulic clutch, pressure bleed only?)
Gearbox oil (FOUR litres of 80w90? Wow...)
The exhaust's going to get a very good prod - it looks... crusty.
Anything else I should be having a good look at? What's the score on points to grease? (Sliding door?) Anything specific in the injection that's likely to benefit from a can of carb cleaner? (Idle valve, AMM, throttle body?)
Body's very good - it's had a lot of paint, and the seams were definitely not perfect beforehand, but there doesn't seem to be anything much hiding. The service book is more-or-less stamped up from new until it left Germany, and it's since had "the brakes done" - what that involves precisely, I know not, hence fluid anyway. It's apparently had a fuel tank at some stage in the not too-far-distant. A set of matched near-new Maxxis van tyres on it - not my first choice of brand, but...