Recent content by Superflan

maybe oil/water cooling requirements mapped, or you are bottoming the idle map by having a very thin oil due to high temp, leading to higher rpms?

I saw everything. Factory tires on a car (Fiat) were Bridgestone B250 Ecopia, the same B250 Ecopia didn't have the same part number (4 digits) and the same environmental ratings than the factory one, and behaved differently especially when wet Michelin factory tires which were the same and had...

thank you :) are those 2, 10 or 30 microns cartridges?

Purflux CS435A went on, I'll be cutting it open when replacing too. Worth noting that Purflux is now having white boxes with stickers when coming from Sogefi South Africa, so I'm curious if they even kept the chevron-pleated media in. We'll see. from the exterior it doesn't look quality as I...

please ignore the metal debris and damages, I've been quite impatient opening the filter 🫣

this is a filter that has been put through WVO during anywhere between 10000-26000 kilometers, I lost track. replaced it because restriction was causing my saddle tank system to starve fuel at half tank due to low return feed pressure, while not having performance issue at high load high rpm.

I meant, engine oil filter

or a bad HPFP. Warning folks, especially with top-mounted, cam-driven piston pumps. once the seals go bad, they drop fuel into the crankcase and kills your engine.

140000 kilometers, the plastic cam cover is leaking a lil bit of oil from the seal at the front, so maybe that's where the black on top of the lever comes? or leak from the bushing yes. interesting, let's see if I can find sleeves in shops on the island I'll carefully envision this. no issue...

Not solved yet, I don't know if I can have that specific parts for that turbo, as I don't have detailed parts numbers across the IHI RHF range to see what could fit where. So either a new/reman turbo, or parts so we can fix it ourselves... If anyone knows parts numbers about IHI turbos, I'll...

Finally found it. Follow up in: Thread 'IHI turbos wasteGATE flapper journal wear common issue?' https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/ihi-turbos-wastegate-flapper-journal-wear-common-issue.375058/

So, after speculating and procrastinating for thousand of kilometers, I finally figured out, by simply removing the turbo cover, why the car is losing power day after day with no explanation (and no MIL) at all: As some of you would figure out, the wastegate pin and journal are equally wore...

For me, anything below 12.6V is a test, or charge and retest, or a replace. and anything below 12.2V where the charging system is okay goes straight in the bin

Someone heard the car noises when I arrived at a car meet today and immediately mentioned "it seems you have a wastegate rattle". I googled and found a fair share of YouTube videos sounding a bit like the sounds I had that I attributed to GDI noises. Mine sometimes goes like this: especially...

I was concerned by this. I'd give that battery a charge, test, and replace if more than 4 years of service anyway