Practically Classics Forum

This power splittter which is usually mounted on the fan shrouds behind
the radiator fans is pop riveted to the bottom of the lower radiator support
this is so If I need to remove parts of the main wiring loom I have less
hassle.



I had a rethink on the mounting of the radiator fans, and removed the red
painted angle Iron an bits of aluminium. The fixings came with the fans but
need to go through the radiator fins. It is a lot cleaner looking but I was
worried about damaging the fins using the kit.





I think I can tick the cooling fans off my list now. I will be sorting out a couple
of damaged cables for indicators and the front fog lights before fitting the
front bumper back on for good hopefully tomorrow!

The coil spring insolators/seats have been bought off Rockauto
Part Number........1997 DODGE NEON 2.0L L4 SOHC MONROE
904948 Coil Spring Insulator (8708.80.9900)
Price EA...................................................£ 7.54
Quantity...................................................2
Total........................................................£ 15.08
Discount...................................................£ -0.75
Shipping FedEx International Economy..........£ 21.63
VAT (Value Added Tax)...............................£ 7.19
Order Total................................................£ 43.15

So the company is NJ and the last I update stated the order was sent
to TN I was thinking
"here I go again where my car parts are better travelled than me!"
But as luck would have it, it landed at stansted on Monday and was
delivered today.



I little check to make sure they are the right ones by sitting the coil springs
on them. They are so thats tomorrows job weather permitting swap out the
cut springs with the new ones and these rubber seats.



As I started back on the front bumper I noticed one of the wing brackets was
damaged.When I was looking for the old one which was less damaged I came
across these aftermarket ones which I had bought for my previous mk1 neon.



To compare the factory fitted and these aftermarket ones, I do prefer the clear
to the amber ones. I might swap them over after the car has been put back on
the road and the body work has been resprayed.



The bumper skin has all but two bolts put in and holding it on(two tabs that are
attached to the top of the bumper skin that swivel down behind the bumper bar)
The new fog lights are fitted, but a connection needs replacing, I ran out of spade
connectors again! I will pick some up tomorrow when I go for more indicator bulbs.



So a quick check to make sure all is well once the bulbs have been fitted then that
is another one ticked off the list.

New springs and struts - much better than the nasty cut ones

Richard I was expecting the weather to be heavy rain as forecast, so
I pushed myself to get what I did yesterday done. Now I am unable
to move without assistance. I really did a number on myself, it will be
few days or more till I can get to do anything on the car again!

With finding the faults on the lighting system with the corrupted wires,
I am thinking that the downstream lambda sensor wiring might be
screwed too, but the sensor is new so I won't have to swap that out!

progress! well done mate

^WHS^

After yesterday's work, it must feel annoying to be laid up. However, remember that you made some progress yesterday and that has brought the completion date a little closer.

I don't trust the forecasts at the end of a hot spell. Mind you, it threw it down at three this morning but, apart from annoying little showers, has been hot and muggy again today. I admit that I didn't do much either - and when I did go out to do something, I got rained off!

Just a little note to let you all know I haven't stopped working on the old
girl. I have been slowly picking my way through the wires one at a time,
isolating and grouping relevant wires together in strip/chocolate block
connectors in readyness for different things. Such as making up a new
longer cable for the down stream heated O2/lambda sensor.

I have found that in my wiring that the colours of the wiring on both the
Voyager and neon wiring looms are a little different from the factory service
manuals. So I have been using the FSM for the connector pinouts along
with wiring diagrams to get along and correct as I go.

The only thing that holds me up is when my sugar levels fluctuate and it
makes my colour blindness or eye sight in general go to pot. I called a halt
on all of todays progress and I was making very good progress, but I
wasn't willing to carry on in thunder, lightening and rain.

Yesterday I found the gril bar had been covered in white spirits and the paint
had come off half of it. So I stripped the rest of the paint off then gave it a
coat of gray primer before a coat of chrome. It was perfect then I had to give
it a coat of clear lacquer. Now it's nolonger a shiny chrome!





Here is the disaster that lays beneath the bonnet! I found that I had previously
wired the reverse light cable from the PRN switch into the data cable link, so that
won't have helped previously. It didn't help that both the data link and the reverse
use the same coloured wires!



I'm getting there slowly. No night driving or driving in dull weather for me for a while
as I have smashed my last pair of clear lensed distance glasses, so no car shows or
club meets for a few weeks!!!

I still have a few unknown wires to sort out and to fit the new downstream
heated O2/lambda sensor. But I connected up the Voyager ECU, then put the
immobilizer in bypass/emergency start mode. The starter motor solenoid was
trying to engage but it couldn't, and I don't think that the battery had enough
power left in it either!

Tomorrow I will fit the new lambda sensor and it's new cable run, which I
finished tonight soldering all the connections, as it's a slightly longer run I did
not want any moisture getting in at a connection and it being a repeat of the
indicator wiring volt drop.

Activity at the starter solenoid sounds like a good sign.