Updates.
Blue clio back in daily use. Its been running great, no starting issues and none of the low idle carry on, 100% confident that its sorted.
A few posts back i touched upon spinning the egr to essentially blank it off whilst eliminating things causing low idle. You can only get one bolt in the top and pikey one bolt to the underside of the egr when its 180deg out. I thought this would be ok/sealed but after looking oil had started to spray out of the top and bottom, not loads but not great either. This also highlighted the turbo was getting pretty tired and blowing oil out of the compressor side seal, which is not ideal on a diesel, if it suddenly got worse it could be a runaway situation. Id noted oil when cleaning egr and it looked like it was getting worse so time to change the turbo.
Experimental spaced out egr solenoid which did not work and put it into limp.
I got the turbo for free off a breaker kangoo when i first got the car and its done 90k in my use so its done well. I went through the turbo collection in the lockup and dug outa dci80 yellow plate turbo with no play in the shaft/no sign of oil on inlet or exhaust so deemed good enough. Decent weather and a spare few hours so set about changing it yesterday.
Usual position
Spoolie boi missing.
Old turbo off and new one on in 2 hours, replaced oil drain seal for new whilst on with it. Checked wastegate with mityvac and set at 1.1bar so all good. Smoke tested for leaks.
Smokin
EGR put back to standard to eliminate leaks. Still leaks very slightly on smoke check but not bad so thats as good as it gets i guess, rest of pipework ok. Anyway test run and all good, performance good, done ten mile or so and removed egr to check for oil and all dry so id say thats job jobbed.
Dirty d back in one piece.
Now its back to good running order its upgrade time. The original wheels were in poor shape, lots of corrosion and needed a refurb as the bead area was in poor condition. Did consider refurb but if spending money might aswell get something different as not really keen on the originals. Have been looking for a while at various sets of wheels and had agreed to buy a set of comp mo5 but deal fell through at last minute.
Looking through fb marketplace i noticed lad i know was selling a set of mk1 clio 16v steel spare wheels. I dont mind the look of them and fired a message over, next thing im on a roadtrip to Lincoln last week to collect.
R26 on wheel collection duties.
1x set of et35 15x6.5j valver spares powdercoated in matt black. 2x new uniroyals & 2 knackered uniroyals. My current michelin crossclimates are around 4-5mm so got them swapped over off the original wheels and fitted today.
Steelie crew.
Much better than the corroded originals. Et36 also sits a bit better.
Stuck a bid in for a private reg JB03JON on ebay and ended up winning too so stuck that on.
Thanks for reading!!