Engine Plumbing/wiring Madness

[Pugs in Pieces 0]

picked up a cti last weekend, only really found time to look at it today, upon first drive it seemed to have a very loud knocking noise coming from the suspension,i put my foot down along the track and lost all drive, further inspection revealed the gearbox being held in by 1 finger tight bolt and the metal cover plate underneath, obviously something has come adrift, i bought the car at night so didnt check alot, just wether the door and window rubbers were any good!. the seller told me the brakes were no good, i thought the servo had packed up as it felt rock hard, turns out they had connected the servo hose to the bleed screw on the thermostat housing, in turn the throttle body heater pipe was connected to the oil filler cap, also the filler neck was connected to the sad, the sad wiring has been chopped and joined into the afm wiring, the afm is off a 2.2 senator according to the numbers on it, the water nose from thermostat housing bleed was connected to the header tank and the servo pipe feed was connected to the other throttle body heater pipe.

 

absolute madness. and its got 11 months mot!!!!!!!

 

there are some muppets out there, just had to share this really.

[GLPoomobile 958]

That is mental!!!!

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Holy f*ck!

Sounds like he knows his mot tester well.

I'd be stripping the whole car and check he hasn't connected the brakes into the fuel lines

[P_Monty 2]

I'm amazed it runs at all...

[Tom Fenton 1,547]

Although not as bad as this i've seen a few with misconnected pipes in my time, it is not that much of a suprise really as the standard 8v setup really is a horrid rats nest of pipes and cables all over the place.

[harryskid 193]

[dcc 855]

I helped a boy in blackwood reconnect the wiring harness on his 1.9 a few years ago, after he changed the gasket (by himself! ) and to my horror, he had a water pipe connected to the oilbreather!

[harryskid 193]

Being involved in heating and the odd bit of plumbing, i've seen hot water in toilet cisterns.

[Edp 67 3 Cars]

:o

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

The last 205 I bought was like this, even had a 1.4 dizzy on it, Refitted it all as it should and it runs sweat as now,

It never surprizes me anymore, I think I;ve seen 99% of the bodges out there now

[Alastairh 47]

Although not as bad as this i've seen a few with misconnected pipes in my time, it is not that much of a suprise really as the standard 8v setup really is a horrid rats nest of pipes and cables all over the place.

 

Ever worked on a RX7?

 

Crazy!

[GLPoomobile 958]

Being involved in heating and the odd bit of plumbing, i've seen hot water in toilet cisterns.

 

Ha ha ha. Stayed at the Camden Lock Hotel in North London a few times, and one time they had problems with the heating and the toilet cistern had boiling hot water in it Was quite cozy on the bum though. Central heating for the butt cheeks.

[Pugs in Pieces 0]

Ha ha ha. Stayed at the Camden Lock Hotel in North London a few times, and one time they had problems with the heating and the toilet cistern had boiling hot water in it Was quite cozy on the bum though. Central heating for the butt cheeks.

 

quite like the sound of that!

[harryskid 193]

quite like the sound of that!

 

Hot flushes eh

[Pugs in Pieces 0]

just thought i would add a couple of pics of how the gearbox was sitting.

 

and the cover plate.

 

its all sorted now and actually runs pretty well, drives good too.

[harryskid 193]

Would you let the bloke that put it together come round an sort your plumbing?