1997 Terrano II 2.4 X-Treme

[Banshee]

Top work Wallace!!!!

 

[Wallace]

Top work Wallace!!!!

:thumb2

I had a look at the boot leak, looks like the door seal may not be sealing hinge side for a couple of inches and the upper roof/door seal has come unstuck that side. A small amount of water has been getting past the door seal, under the plastic threshold and into the felt carpet felt. Might be the cause of my wet dog smell! Trying Evostik on the unstuck ends and Dum Dum putty on the threshold with some packing on the door seal.

With the carpet up I just had to have a look under the fuel pump access panel for the hell of it and to investigate the occasional whiff of petrol I get.
I sheared an M6 bolt off and had to drill it out. :nenau I'm sure the low grade bolts on this truck are made of die cast zinc! Then I dropped a 4mm drill bit into the opening like a muppet.:doh

 

[Wallace]

Well the Evostic did a wonderful job of holding the corners of the roof to door seal in place so I tried a bit of water on the roof......

 

[Wallace]

Gluing the ends has not helped......

 

[Wallace]

Water is going off the roof and behind the tired and worn seal......

 

[Wallace]

A bit too dark to take photos but everything is back together for work in the morning. I removed the seal and cleaned all the Evostick off, it had stuck well and held nicely. I managed to open up a used Sikaflex 221 marine sealant and smear everything with a spatula to save opening a new tube of Tiger Seal originally destined for a Zephyr windscreen. The aerial seal from PRC did not fit properly (what did I expect!) so that had a dose too and after cleaning up with Acetone I closed the door on proceedings for the night leaving the door applying pressure to the seal. The ends of the threshold trim I added some DumDum putty to stop any water getting past as I'm not convinced the door seal is sealing properly. Time will tell.

 

[Wallace]

Rained last night and most of today here, dry boot carpet! The door seal must be letting water by from the top seal as there is some puddling around the threshold trim but the DumDum putty is keeping it out. Temporary success until I can look at the door seal.

Panicked this evening when i looked at the truck as all the windows were steamed up, I forgot about the wet pallet I stuck in there leaving work! :lol

 

[Wallace]

I noticed one morning on the way to work the truck was holding itself still in traffic and at lights before applying the handbrake, usually a sign of brake problems. Thinking (in denial!) it would wait until the weekend I carried on and two days later it was worse and I stopped at work to find smoke coming from the o/s front wheel. Took the afternoon off, bought a cheap set of pads on the way home and took the front wheels off for the first time in 8 years I have owned the truck! Turned out to be no more than corrosion behind the calipers bearing down on the seals so a temporary fix was to clean everything up, fit the new pads and do a complete brake overhaul later in the year. Quite surprised to find the £15 pads work really well and the brakes are now quite good.

 

[Banshee]

Rained last night and most of today here, dry boot carpet! The door seal must be letting water by from the top seal as there is some puddling around the threshold trim but the DumDum putty is keeping it out. Temporary success until I can look at the door seal.

Panicked this evening when i looked at the truck as all the windows were steamed up, I forgot about the wet pallet I stuck in there leaving work! :lol

I can see the look of fear in your face as you peered out the window :lol :lol

I noticed one morning on the way to work the truck was holding itself still in traffic and at lights before applying the handbrake, usually a sign of brake problems. Thinking (in denial!) it would wait until the weekend I carried on and two days later it was worse and I stopped at work to find smoke coming from the o/s front wheel. Took the afternoon off, bought a cheap set of pads on the way home and took the front wheels off for the first time in 8 years I have owned the truck! Turned out to be no more than corrosion behind the calipers bearing down on the seals so a temporary fix was to clean everything up, fit the new pads and do a complete brake overhaul later in the year. Quite surprised to find the £15 pads work really well and the brakes are now quite good.

Good work that man!!!! The slider pins are usually the little buggers that seize :doh Emery cloth and a bit of copper grease and all is well again

 

[Wallace]

The slider pins were quite good, it was corrosion behind the piston and dust seal grooves binding on the piston mainly on the o/s causing the pads to bind and burn. Corrosion from standing so long on all the external caliper and surfaces didn't help either adding to the lack of carrier movement.

I fully expected a complete brake overhaul after dragging the truck off the garden and going for the Mot, the discs were horrible with rust from standing but they still passed the brake test. The £15 pads even on those discs have been an improvement again! Mpg improved after the wheels would turn freely......:lol

 

[Banshee]

The slider pins were quite good, it was corrosion behind the piston and dust seal grooves binding on the piston mainly on the o/s causing the pads to bind and burn. Corrosion from standing so long on all the external caliper and surfaces didn't help either adding to the lack of carrier movement.

I fully expected a complete brake overhaul after dragging the truck off the garden and going for the Mot, the discs were horrible with rust from standing but they still passed the brake test. The £15 pads even on those discs have been an improvement again! Mpg improved after the wheels would turn freely......:lol

Nice!!!! There's only you and Elty that I know of that will be daily driving a 2.4i petrol on here actively that I know of :thumb2 well, when Elty has finished tarting it up, he's doing a grand job so far :thumb2

Here's when I owned it;
http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29520&highlight=maverick

Then I sold it to Elt to make way for a Patrol project :lol, here it is going forwards;
http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29782

 

[Wallace]

I commented on the Maverick's wheels in elty's thread and Blocky10 has offered me a set but BUT I would need to run fixed front hubs as opposed to the automatic freewheeling hubs. I'm quite keen to have a set of road biased tyres on alloys and offroad on the steels.

I quite like the Maverick front end styling over the Terrano although it has grown on me.

 

[macabethiel]

The later GTE & 1.8 did have a tendancy to rot unfortunately. The 6 cylinder conversion was popular and Irmscher used to build new cars with the CIH 6 cylinder but it's a heavy old lump being all cast iron and affects the handling. I had quite a few Manta's and Ascona's and my first car was a MkI Cavalier. Some of them ended up as the car below with a Rover V8 in the mid 1990's. No weight penalty with the Rover engine just more power and torque making a much nicer car to drive.

From 1967 to 1979 I worked in the car trade (part time & full time), during that period I worked for an Opel / Aidi/Mercedes Dealers in Derby & Burton on Trent. Back then there was no benefit in kind taxation for running a demonstrator with free fuel so I was lucky enough to have as demonstrator a range of Opels from the humble Kadette to the Commodore 2.8 GS.

Out of all of them I liked the Ascone 1.9 SR the best it was a really great handling vehicle for its time. I even sold an Ascona 400 to a local Rally Driver and got to fetch the car from Harwich including several Opel GT's purchased by American Forces folk with some working at RR & Associates on the reactors for subs.

 

[Wallace]

Nice one, was the 400 lhd? I know a guy who has a rhd one and met a guy locally who stopped me to look at the V8 car as he had an Ascona 400. I bought a white 2 door Ascona 1.6S just by chance in very nice condition when the V8 was off the road while building a 4.6 for it. Life changed and we bought the house so the Manta and Ascona were sold and I fancied a change so started looking for a Dodge Challenger to build an R/T clone, ended up with a Jensen Interceptor!

For a long time I toyed with the idea of transferring all the V8 running gear into the Ascona and building a road 400 with correct looking parts and still regret not doing so but I liked the uniqueness of the Ascona Coupe V8 and couldn't afford to do both at the time.

 

[Banshee]

I love this forum :clap :bow

 

[Wallace]

I had to top up the radiator last weekend with a fair amount of fluid so I kept an eye on it during the week and my first thought was a leak from the radiator where I took the tanks off and rodded the core through but I found a weep from the water pump. Nothing lasts these days does it? That pump has only been on there since 1998.

Quinton Hazell replacement found on EBay for £24 delivered, came to work and I fitted it yesterday. Made in Japan unlike the el cheapo original that only lasted 21 years that was made in Mexico.

Suffered a little transit damage, easily fixed.

 

[Wallace]

Old pump had some corrosion that I did wonder was the problem but the weep hole was wet so the seals have failed. All came apart nice and easy as everything was lubed up at Christmas when I did the Weldathon on the thermostat housing and replace the thermostat.

 

[Wallace]

While the radiator is out I will try flushing the heater matrix as I'm convinced it has suffered the limescale build up the radiator had and isn't particularly efficient. If it has to come out in the future and be replaced so be it, a dose of citric acid pumped through might work.

I'm chuffed that taking the tanks off the radiator was successful to rod the core, I was a little dubious about a small corroded area near the outlet but it's dry as as bone.

Also whilst the radiator is out I will fit the MkIV Golf electric fans and shroud with the basic Davies Craig thermostatic controller I planned on fitting to replace the viscous coupled fan. Th idea is to use the large fan for normal cooling and have the option of using the smaller two speed fan as additional cooling if I ever get off road or do the turbo conversion. An oil cooler will need fitting before either of those happens. :thumbs

 

[macabethiel]

Nice one, was the 400 lhd? I know a guy who has a rhd one and met a guy locally who stopped me to look at the V8 car as he had an Ascona 400. I bought a white 2 door Ascona 1.6S just by chance in very nice condition when the V8 was off the road while building a 4.6 for it. Life changed and we bought the house so the Manta and Ascona were sold and I fancied a change so started looking for a Dodge Challenger to build an R/T clone, ended up with a Jensen Interceptor!

For a long time I toyed with the idea of transferring all the V8 running gear into the Ascona and building a road 400 with correct looking parts and still regret not doing so but I liked the uniqueness of the Ascona Coupe V8 and couldn't afford to do both at the time.

Yes it was a rhd Ascona 400 it was white, they had no carpets just black rubber mats!

Al the Opel GT's were lhd though.

 

[macabethiel]

While the radiator is out I will try flushing the heater matrix as I'm convinced it has suffered the limescale build up the radiator had and isn't particularly efficient. If it has to come out in the future and be replaced so be it, a dose of citric acid pumped through might work.

I'm chuffed that taking the tanks off the radiator was successful to rod the core, I was a little dubious about a small corroded area near the outlet but it's dry as as bone.

Also whilst the radiator is out I will fit the MkIV Golf electric fans and shroud with the basic Davies Craig thermostatic controller I planned on fitting to replace the viscous coupled fan. Th idea is to use the large fan for normal cooling and have the option of using the smaller two speed fan as additional cooling if I ever get off road or do the turbo conversion. An oil cooler will need fitting before either of those happens. :thumbs

Few people bother but when you have aluminium components the use of a good antifreeze with the right inhibitors replaced as per the service schedule does help. That said yours has lasted well.