18 March 2009 | Mechanical, Mechanical, Mechanical, SM IE, SM IE, SM IE
Still on the same timing chain intervention, my main goal is to remove this annoying water pump cover. After a few “soft” solutions, I then tried more “violent” ones. Here are some of them with pictures: smie_303This is a home made extraction...
17 March 2009 | Miscellaneous
After some shelves and tables, I had the opportunity to get an ultrasonic cleaning tank at the company I work for. So thank you very much to my employer to reorganize the production workshops on a regular basis 😉 In this case it was an ultrasonic cleaning machine that...
8 February 2009 | Uncategorized
Winter is here so I forget the air conditioning system for a while to do some more consequent work. In fact, even after the replacement of both secondary timing chains and the valve adjustment done last year (see previous page), this SM still makes a annoying noise...
24 August 2008 | Uncategorized
Because of the leak discovered earlier when testing the circuit, and following the advice of the specialist I saw, I decided to replace all the pipes, hoping to fix the leak and increase the system reliability. smie_283I start with the connections close to the...
19 July 2008 | Mechanical, SM IE
As planned, I worked on the air conditioning system. The goal was to replace the original compressor by a modern and more gentle one (for the timing chains), replace the drying cartridge and then try to put the system back in working order. smie_261I’m going to...
