Recent content by Rystar

Nothing wrong with going for the obvious! But yeah battery had been replaced in the last year previous to this happening after a total failure. Fully charged multiple times during all this and multiple attempts with jump leads attached to another car too and still no luck unfortunately

Been a while since I looked at this… Couple months back I ordered up a set of timing pins, had a go at checking the timing and everything slotted in nicely and I’m satisfied it’s still in time. A mate of mine who’s done a fair bit of work on 1.9dci vans said to check if the turbo was seized as...

Ahh okay gotcha that makes sense to me. It seems to crank over fairly normal, not too fast not too slow and doesn’t sound like someone’s dropped a bag of 2p’s down the oil filler neither. I shall look into the comp test route and see what I can find. It does look a simple lump from the diagrams...

Well that sounds like deep joy 😅 is it possible to do a compression test through the injector ports? The previous owner snapped two glow plugs in the head so I can’t just whip them out unfortunately. I’m going to try and find the motivation to pin it up tomorrow and see what the score is, I’ve...

Hi All, realise I’ve been absent on here for a while but everything has been ticking over well and life taken over until recently. Having some issues with my daily and I’m stuck on it now scratching my head. It’s a long one so apologies in advance… Mk2 DCI 80, had it for about two years and...

Due to lockdown and stuff that followed my questioning the whole thing was shelved for a while and other issues popped up since so it got put on the backburner, so unfortunately I cannot personally answer this

Well after trying to get the broken pipe out today the EPAS is becoming ever more tempting... I've shamelessly stolen this picture from another thread on here (no idea which one, google images found it for me, this is not my car) So, I've partially dropped the subframe (Column UJ bolt out...

With that info you may have just made things a much easier choice for me knowing they're all identical or shorter racks if I decide against fixing the HPAS. Would it be best then to get the full rack and EPAS from a dCi then if they offer more assistance/lower ratio? I'm having a think about it...

Well that is good to know, There was a post on here somewhere saying there were two different part numbers and one was 3.5 turns lock to lock and one was 2.75 turns like the sport racks. As soon as I got the AC off it looked so tempting to crack on with the HPAS too but it was working fine at...

Now this is a tempting solution doing away with all the feed and return lines and stuff cos god do they seem to snake everywhere and get in the way of everything. However after finding the part number for the dCi rack with the same ratio (77 00 437 055 I believe) these just seem to be non...

I think it might be the return to the reservoir? Looking at the few google images pictures that seem to exist at least anyways. The first 18 inches of the pipe from the rack are metal and the only one like this is the return to reservoir referencing the picture. But like you say, finding one is...

Right, I've investigated it today in the daylight. The bracket for the heatshield near the pinion end of the rack has somehow been bent back and has rubbed its way through the metal part of one of the lines. It seems to go from the pinion then snakes off behind the rack towards the passenger...

I have to say when I have the subframe off to sort things out the HPAS pipes and rack are a right annoyance so doing away with them would be a bonus, but If it sacrifices the driving feel then I'm not sure i'd be too keen. I suppose with the eBay loom kit adjuster you could just dial in the EPAS...

Is it really that much better over the HPAS to not even consider fixing it? If that's the case i'll look into that instead, I'm all ears!

Hi All, So my power steering has died tonight with all the fluid being out of the system, had to stick about 700-800ml back in to get me home (roughly 5 miles). It's a shame as I've just got it back these past two weeks from AWMotorworks and it was driving mint with it finally being mapped for...