srbryan N15 Pulsar VZR DP1
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Today deceided i would give the car a good powerwash as it was green on top of the green lol!!
Car had been sitting up in a farm yard for a year, the front arches and engine bay were especially filthy with the missing arch liners, there was a solid inch of mud in parts of the engine bay.
I didn't get many pics as i was trying to do it before ir rained and sorry about the pic quality
Air filter is manky and will; be replaced and a proper fitting battery will be got.
First thing i did was get rid of that useless resonator and "cold" air feed pipe
Also covered my air filter and distributor with my custom special water repellent material
to stop any moisture getting in there.
found a pliers under the all the muck under the cold feed for the airbox. BONUS!!!!
This is only a small bit of the muck that came out from under the arches
Also found a little bit of time to stonechip the front crossmember and protect it from any more iron oxide returning
Hopefully tomoroow i'll get a proper chance to Wash and polish the car and give the inside a proper going over and sort the headlight wiring issue.
Car had been sitting up in a farm yard for a year, the front arches and engine bay were especially filthy with the missing arch liners, there was a solid inch of mud in parts of the engine bay.
I didn't get many pics as i was trying to do it before ir rained and sorry about the pic quality
Air filter is manky and will; be replaced and a proper fitting battery will be got.
First thing i did was get rid of that useless resonator and "cold" air feed pipe
Also covered my air filter and distributor with my custom special water repellent material
to stop any moisture getting in there.found a pliers under the all the muck under the cold feed for the airbox. BONUS!!!!
This is only a small bit of the muck that came out from under the arches
Also found a little bit of time to stonechip the front crossmember and protect it from any more iron oxide returning
Hopefully tomoroow i'll get a proper chance to Wash and polish the car and give the inside a proper going over and sort the headlight wiring issue.
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Thanks yeah that's my plan is to bring the car back to where it should be and enjoy not abuse it like Honda's are.
Yeah car was parked in the corner of a hay shed for over a year when the previous owner bought a Evo and lost interest in the Pulsar.
Wire brush on a drill or angle grinder back to bare metal, then treat it.
I don't miss the rust killing on my sri, although it was very clean underneath etc but prevention took me an age.
If your vzr was mine i would strip it, engine, interior, the lot to a bare shell and work from there! but it also depend's how quick you want it on the road.
I don't miss the rust killing on my sri, although it was very clean underneath etc but prevention took me an age.
If your vzr was mine i would strip it, engine, interior, the lot to a bare shell and work from there! but it also depend's how quick you want it on the road.
Where did you get the paint for spraying the wing mirror? or did you make it up yourself?
I've used the holts paint that is meant to match up.... it's good but not spot on.
Whats the problem you have with the headlight wiring?
You have the perfect attitude towards this car so I hope it works out for you!!
P.S It's near impossible to get any part in that colour.
I've used the holts paint that is meant to match up.... it's good but not spot on.
Whats the problem you have with the headlight wiring?
You have the perfect attitude towards this car so I hope it works out for you!!
P.S It's near impossible to get any part in that colour.
It's Holts paint that i got in Halfords, i think it's fairly bang on compared to other colours i have had mixed before.
Headlight wiring was a mess made by the previous owner for some unknown reason, it was all cut and taped together.
So didn't get alot done this week due to been back to work and weather been generally crap, was looking at this for the early part of the week.
I was off work today so decided to get the wiring sorted out, basically the left hand side bulb connector melted and shorted previously and blew the fuse but instead of replacing the connector and fuse, the previous owner decided to just wire the bulb directly to the driverside bulb and in the process cut off the driver side plug and when they wired it they wired it backwards so the dipped beam came on instead of the full beam and full beam came on instead of the dipped beam!!
Also the full beam indicator light was not coming on the dash.
Sorry the pic is sideways can't get it to turn, blue wires is what they had running between headlights.
So i reefed all that crap out and decided to solder the new connectors on properly with help from the factory manual telling what each wire was for.
Pulled out this little bugger
and replaced him
And both headlights were looking that little bit better
I also cut and reconnected the shoddy looking VVL solenoid connectors and tidied them up.
Before i finished up i popped on my wing mirrror cover and think it's a fairly good colour match,
So that's what i got done today and checked the lights and they are working the way they should with the switch and the full beam indicator light is now working again BUT i noticed that when the dipped beam is on the indicator light lights up very dim
but if i disconnect the bulb connector on the passenger side it goes out and only comes on with the full beam and if i plug it back in it lights up very dim and works fine with the full beam it's obviously something to do with the paasenger light wiring since the indicator light get's it feed from that side but i don't know where to start looking??
I was off work today so decided to get the wiring sorted out, basically the left hand side bulb connector melted and shorted previously and blew the fuse but instead of replacing the connector and fuse, the previous owner decided to just wire the bulb directly to the driverside bulb and in the process cut off the driver side plug and when they wired it they wired it backwards so the dipped beam came on instead of the full beam and full beam came on instead of the dipped beam!!
Also the full beam indicator light was not coming on the dash.
Sorry the pic is sideways can't get it to turn, blue wires is what they had running between headlights.
So i reefed all that crap out and decided to solder the new connectors on properly with help from the factory manual telling what each wire was for.
Pulled out this little bugger
and replaced him
And both headlights were looking that little bit better
I also cut and reconnected the shoddy looking VVL solenoid connectors and tidied them up.
Before i finished up i popped on my wing mirrror cover and think it's a fairly good colour match,
So that's what i got done today and checked the lights and they are working the way they should with the switch and the full beam indicator light is now working again BUT i noticed that when the dipped beam is on the indicator light lights up very dim
but if i disconnect the bulb connector on the passenger side it goes out and only comes on with the full beam and if i plug it back in it lights up very dim and works fine with the full beam it's obviously something to do with the paasenger light wiring since the indicator light get's it feed from that side but i don't know where to start looking??Attachments
My god do feel like a donkey, figured out why the light was staying on with the dims, turns out that when i wired the new plug onto the passenger side light i might have accidentaly, mistakenly ummm *cough* switched the earth and full beam wires*cough* all sorted now so i can sleep happy
all sorted now so i can sleep happy
You need to get some laquer on that wing mirror
Did the re-wiring go to plan on the vvl solenoid? what i mean work's?
Mirror is actually laquered just looks dull because of the laquer peel but i must wet sand and polish it yet.
I haven't driven it since i re-wired the vvl because i'm still waiting to get an alternator for it, the one i took to get repaired isn't repairable after they tried two regulators and still wasn't working right so i bit the bullet and told them get me a new one
Air filter is dedfinatly a priority on the list, i'm afraid it will crumble and fall apart. I would love to find something like the powerland intake pipe or a standard airbox but will have to make do with the current intake pipe for the time being.
Once i get the alternator back it's will get a full service and all fluids changed and I must change one of the petrol pipes as it looks old and perished.
So today was a good day in the progress of the car, collected my recondtioned alternator this morning, came home fitted it and started the car and battery light went out and car was charging @ 14.6v
All delighted so took it for a drive and half a mile up the road the light came back on WTF, I was stumped, came home and checked the voltage and it was back to 15.5v, unhappy was an understatement, I was thinking about walking away from it but said i would check the wiring and make sure i hadn't missed anything.
Checked fuses and nothing, checked connections and they were all good then i got the multi-meter out and started checking for continuity through the wires and bingo, signal wire from the alternator to battery wasn't showing any voltage so i made up a little homemade loom to test it.
So i knew there was a break in the wiring somwhere so started at the fusebox near the battery and started tracing the signal wire to the battery and came across this behind the offside headlight.
Due to not having arch liners water was abviosly getting into the couple of plugs near the relay box and caused the signal wire to corrode and finally broke off when I was driving down my rough road.
Managed to pull the connector out of the plug and made a new connector that fitted in the plug
This is the little bastard that broke
With that sorted light was back out again and car charging properly
Also gave a call to the dealer to collect a small package
A new hazard switch as my indicators were working intermitently but hazards worked all the time, so replaced the switch and indicators now working on demand.
Happy it's all coming together now all i need to do now is bleed the brakes as pedal is a bit soft and fix a leak near the back box and then off for the NCT and should be all legal then.
All delighted so took it for a drive and half a mile up the road the light came back on
WTF, I was stumped, came home and checked the voltage and it was back to 15.5v, unhappy was an understatement, I was thinking about walking away from it but said i would check the wiring and make sure i hadn't missed anything.Checked fuses and nothing, checked connections and they were all good then i got the multi-meter out and started checking for continuity through the wires and bingo, signal wire from the alternator to battery wasn't showing any voltage so i made up a little homemade loom to test it.
So i knew there was a break in the wiring somwhere so started at the fusebox near the battery and started tracing the signal wire to the battery and came across this behind the offside headlight.
Due to not having arch liners water was abviosly getting into the couple of plugs near the relay box and caused the signal wire to corrode and finally broke off when I was driving down my rough road.
Managed to pull the connector out of the plug and made a new connector that fitted in the plug
This is the little bastard that broke
With that sorted light was back out again and car charging properly
Also gave a call to the dealer to collect a small package
A new hazard switch as my indicators were working intermitently but hazards worked all the time, so replaced the switch and indicators now working on demand.
Happy it's all coming together now all i need to do now is bleed the brakes as pedal is a bit soft and fix a leak near the back box and then off for the NCT and should be all legal then.