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Yeah your supposed to cover machined surfaces in grease first.
Tbf the hubs don’t really need rust treatment there’s plenty of “spare” material on cast items so grinding/blasting is usually more appropriate.
Hmm does sound like the battery hasn’t got enough amperage to crank but unless you can get it to crank you won’t be able to test it.
Do you have a spare battery you can borrow?
Initially I was going to suggest a bad earth so you could check out the earth strap to the gearbox but the jump pack...
Rear stripped.
Spots of rust just starting behind both door cards and along the rear arches.
Going to tackle the hidden stuff myself and leave the rest of the arch primed for the body shop.
No idea what the previous owner used to clean the rear light and the rear window it’s like a cats...
Stripping down continued.
Dust and rust all over the place but managed to get all the liners out without wrecking the mounting points.
Organised all the screws in bags so I know where they came from.
This might explain the engine noise.
Plan going forward is once all the heavy stuffs out is to stick it on a jig so I can tackle the rusty bits underneath.
For the sake of a few £100s it seems worth it not to have to crawl around under there with a flap wheel.
Engine runs but somethings knackered probably the water pump so I’m in...
Starting to make some slow progress on this.
Bent one of the sills back into a usable form for now.
Then got the car up on some breezeblocks/timber so I can start stripping out the engine and various bits
Cut the good stuff off so the pikeys don’t rock up and cut it off.
The above is correct.
The motor has a rubber sliding float inside to control which screen the water goes to. These swell up and cause issues, can be resolved by trimming them with a craft knife.
If the pump is still running but not much is coming out it’s probably full of gunk and needs...
Unfortunately Renaults production cars never look anywhere near as good as the concept cars.
“The Renault ZOE E-Sport will never see the light of day as production car, according to Renault.”
Rear brakes on the van somehow this passed an Mot without even an advisory both sides the same.
Also managed to bodge myself a tool to wind the caliper back in.