On Thursday night I went down to Leicester to pick up some new wheels:
Had the day off work on Friday so cracked on with the corsa. First job was to run over to autovaux to pick up some bits:
CTS
Clutch
Clutch Cable
Electric Transducer for Gearbox (speedo)
Flywheel Bolts
Badge
Door Pins
My first target was to fix the coolant temperature sensor, and replace the current from for a genuine one.
After pulling off the wires on the CTS I found this:
That'll be probably why it's overfuelling then
That was fixed and replaced with a new connector and the wires were soldered on.
I then replaced the sensor for a genuine one. hmmmmm boschness
I turned the key and the car fired up, and purred...for a few seconds. Then the revs started to hunt, so I went under the bonnet and moved some pipes around. When moving the airflow meter it kept 'coughing'. So I turned off the engine and dismantled all the air inlet pipes.
I find this:
Bugger. Down to the local scrapyard to see what I can find, unfortunately there were no early ecotecs in, only an omega - so I took the inlet hose off that. When I was down at the scrapyard the hoses looked the same, however upon getting home it turns out the omega one is noticeably bigger than the other:
It was fouling the bulkhead when fitted, so out came the grinder
With only minor chopping it fitted well; you can just see the hole in the bulkhead behind the pipe:
All back together:
During doing this a bit of rust on the battery tray caught my eye, so I decided to get rid of it
Battery tray gone
Cleaned
Primed
Refitted
During the above I decided to try and fit my new speedo transducer and get that all working.
This is the transducer that's required:
The plug on the left was acquired from the scrapyard earlier in the day. This is the plug that was on my car:
This needed to be removed and then it was a case of matching the wire colours:
This is the transducer in place:
All covered up with conduit:
The engine was 'reassembled' and all ecu faults/engine hunting/air leaks were gone
While doing the entireity of the above, I finished off the spraying in the back of the car:
Final few coats of paint:
Completed boot after Lacquering:
Went out for a blast and the car drivers lovely
Well happy.
Also, my new flywheel arrived:
Oh, and before the day was complete; I did the necessary
)
I hope it comes soon 
