Hey so it's been a while. I got the dash in and working. It's amazing when I go out driving, however I get distracted easily as it's so awesome to watch. :3
Last week I ordered a new radiator off of eBay for $95 shipped. It's a copper core with plastic tanks and two row (as opposed to the older radiator which was only single row). I was going to get one through work but they wanted $400 or something ludacris for a single row. This was definitely the issue (or the major issue) for the overheating. You could scrape out gunk on your finger in the old one :/
After throwing a few swear words around we eventually got it and I took it for a test drive. I drove it for 2 straight hours from Unley to Marion to Bridgewater and then to Lofty. The temp gauge didn't budge ! It was awesome. I know it's not fully hectic but we got it up to 130 on the freeway which I thought was an achievement given I'd never had it over 3 figures prior to this day
It's very dusty though as it's just been sitting. I've been doing little jobs on it throughout the week too. For some reason the digital climate control never worked properly after I did the digi-dash swap. It used to spew out hot air even if the climate control was off. When I put it on 18 it still came out hot... so I spent a couple of hours under the dash just looking at plugs and noticed I missed two - one of them being the plug for the heater core bypass or something. After I plugged it in everything was fixed. I'm so glad I didn't have to take off the dash again :P
The power folding mirrors that came with the Aerodeck were seized and so a little while ago I bought new ones from someone in America. I tested them prior to yesterday and found I only needed to swap some plugs. I went to put them on only to find the mounting face that held them onto the door was different. I imagine it's because the sedan doors differ to the wagon. I pulled it apart and found I could use the body from the good mirrors that worked with the mounting face of the old mirror. So I got those hooked up and working too.
I've never had PFM before so I'm pretty happy to have them on. Everything is shaping up... I'd love my next buy to be Webers given all of the "accessory and aesthetic" mods are sorta done. (Apart from a spray and Watanabes) Stay tuned.
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