Thought I had better post........

[Wallace]

........as I have been lurking for a while.

Browsed the site for a while trying to make my mind up what to do with the Terrano I have had sitting for a number of years and decided to get an Mot and go from there with a view to replacing my work hack Fiesta, it's a '97 2.4 Xtreme in completely standard trim other than a towbar. I bought the car from a friend in 2011 and he owned it for 6 years, looking at the Mot history we stopped using the car that year and it joined the transport museum.

I'm having fun with it! Has already let both the missus and I down as the starter motor commutator partially broke up and destroyed the brush pack, probably more a case of the brushes wearing out destroying the commutator. The temperature gauge has been faulty since my mate had it, reads a little high despite changing the sender and I found the one the second different one he bought back in 2010 in the glovebox! IR thermometer shows temperature to be ok though so we just put that down as 'character'.

This morning on the work trip the heater wasn't giving a great deal of heat so I'll drag it in the garage later to see if there's a bleed point that needs relieving as it was ok last week.

Cheers.

[solarman216]

No bleed point on the heater but if I remember correctly, and that is a tall order, I think there is a bleed screw on or near the front of the inlet manifold, it is marked "do not remove when hot", Rick

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by Wallace

........as I have been lurking for a while.

Browsed the site for a while trying to make my mind up what to do with the Terrano I have had sitting for a number of years and decided to get an Mot and go from there with a view to replacing my work hack Fiesta, it's a '97 2.4 Xtreme in completely standard trim other than a towbar. I bought the car from a friend in 2011 and he owned it for 6 years, looking at the Mot history we stopped using the car that year and it joined the transport museum.

I'm having fun with it! Has already let both the missus and I down as the starter motor commutator partially broke up and destroyed the brush pack, probably more a case of the brushes wearing out destroying the commutator. The temperature gauge has been faulty since my mate had it, reads a little high despite changing the sender and I found the one the second different one he bought back in 2010 in the glovebox! IR thermometer shows temperature to be ok though so we just put that down as 'character'.

This morning on the work trip the heater wasn't giving a great deal of heat so I'll drag it in the garage later to see if there's a bleed point that needs relieving as it was ok last week.

Cheers.

Sounds like your thermostat could be giving up to me mate

Worth checking it, get it on the boil and see

[Wallace]

Originally Posted by solarman216

No bleed point on the heater but if I remember correctly, and that is a tall order, I think there is a bleed screw on or near the front of the inlet manifold, it is marked "do not remove when hot", Rick

Thanks Rick, had a quick look with my phone torch at 06:30 this morning and nothing I could see on the heater hoses, I'm just into my fourth bottle of Hobgoblin so it will have to wait until tomorrow evening or lunchtime tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Banshee

Sounds like your thermostat could be giving up to me mate

Worth checking it, get it on the boil and see

Radiator and head etc all seem to have consistently normal temperatures as they did when my mate had it and the temperature gauge started reading high. Viscous fan is working ok, the coolant needs changing so I'll check the thermostat whilst drained for peace of mind and probably change it anyhow unless it's horrendously expensive. Really want to get a couple of hundred more miles on it and a bit more fresh fuel through before servicing, just odd that the heater was blasting hot air last week and the gauge reads the same.

I'm told I like a challenge!

[Wallace]

Best part of 500 miles on it now and payday is looming so I will give it a service. Digital clock in the dash works ok but not the illumination, is that a known fault? Original Nissan radio display has given up which is a shame as it works ok and I like how basic it is. Looks like I will have to swap it as my missus listens to a different station.

Quite like driving it, a few rattles to sort that sounds like the exhaust on it's last legs and a bit of an odd induction growl as the revs rise I don't remember being there before.

Hunting about for a Workshop Manual, can only find photocopies of a Nissan manual on Ebay or a CD, is there anything available?

Cheers.

[Lazy-Ferret]

If the clock is the same as the TD2.7's, then there is a wedge bulb behind it that supplies the illumination.

Displays on radios are a huge problem, and it is easier to fit an after-market radio, than try and find a working replacement Nissan one. The radio is coded to the ECU when they are first connected, and will not work on another ECU, so you can't just go and get one from a breaker, even if you did find one with a good display.

The workshop manual is available in the downloads, but to get access to that, you will need to pay your £10 membership.

Ohhh... and before condemning the exhaust, check the metal panels on the side steps (if you have them) as the aluminium corrodes away from the steel bolts, and they start to rattle. Also there are some heat shields riveted to the floor above the exhaust, and they also come loose and rattle.

[Wallace]

Originally Posted by Lazy-Ferret

If the clock is the same as the TD2.7's, then there is a wedge bulb behind it that supplies the illumination.

Displays on radios are a huge problem, and it is easier to fit an after-market radio, than try and find a working replacement Nissan one. The radio is coded to the ECU when they are first connected, and will not work on another ECU, so you can't just go and get one from a breaker, even if you did find one with a good display.

The workshop manual is available in the downloads, but to get access to that, you will need to pay your £10 membership.

Ohhh... and before condemning the exhaust, check the metal panels on the side steps (if you have them) as the aluminium corrodes away from the steel bolts, and they start to rattle. Also there are some heat shields riveted to the floor above the exhaust, and they also come loose and rattle.

Thanks, I will whip the dash out and have a look at the display bulb, all the others are nice and bright. Had a feeling that might be the case with the Nissan radio, I have nicked the Panasonic radio/CD player out of the Fiesta I was driving but needs the plugs altering to DIN.

Mate who had the car before me mentioned that he replaced a few back boxes as they rot, it does seem to give off a fair bit of steam condensate from cold.

Weather isn't nice at the moment and cannot get in the workshop as I have an Interceptor in bits. Is the workshop manual download a factory copy?

Mike