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Still nothing to report on DD, she's been enjoying a long hibernation in the garage and MOT ran out. Will need to get my finger out and get her mot'd so she can get a few runs before winter comes again!

Lexy has thrown her first fault since buying her! On the way back from a wee drive to St Boswells, and on came the ABS light, followed by the ESP light, followed by the tyre pressure light! Knew they were all linked someone fault would throw all 3 of them. Got my mate to do a diagnostics on her and it's right rear ABS sensor. Had a look on YouTube and looks a doddle compared to our mb/music, and they only cost £30 odd quid. Luckily, I've got a brand new one sitting in the garage, so will get that fitted. Can't complain if that's the only fault she's given me in 10 months and 10K miles! Still drives sweet as a nut too. Booked in for MOT on 28th of this month so fingers crossed!

There's been a few restorations on here mate, Roverjoe is halfway through a mammoth resto of his mb6 so might be worth giving him a shout. I think as time goes on, we will get more parts listed new for ours courtesy of the MG version of ours. Interest in them has gone up and they get accepted by the MG owners club now so fingers crossed they start manufacturing parts for those that we can use on our civics.

Yes, I've noticed that too! Seems there's a real interest in them now. Bout time too! I've been invited to a classic show with DD up at Bo'ness by guys that volunteer at the steam railway. Met them through my mate who also volunteers there. The station has a classic car show every year along with an open day for visitors to the place. Has huge workshops, a proper big museum etc. I went up with my mate and helped out for the day in the workshop, then we got tasked with cleaning....Thomas the tank engine! Lol 😂

yes already tried them thanks Dave. They are very good and helpful. Item 6 is available from them/ Honda UK but that is all. you can get the same parts in a top mount kit, from various aftermarket manufacturers In the US you can get full strut assemblies e.g. from KYB (these are also the brand of shocks I have bought) which would make life easy, no spring compressors required, but not available over here it seems. Pity. So looks like I'll be disassembling the strut as planned using a compressor, hope the set I have got is up to the job. ? not looking forward to that part. would be interested to know what other people have used parts and tool wise. coilovers of course another option but dont want to go down the adjustable ride/height route, wanted to keep it stock. and would be more expensive. looks like H&R for example do a nice set but v pricey !

Had loads of folk talking about it - gets a lot more interest nowadays.

Some awesome cars there mate. Tubs looking superb too and repping the civic Ms!

Try cox honda (think it's cox honda!) as they are usually good for spares.

Sorry for the late reply mate. Does the car run hot after a certain amount of time/miles every time. Does the temp gauge sit at normal temp then suddenly go high, or does it just keep rising once the car is started. Alternatively, does the temp sit below where its meant to but the engine overheats? Has the thermostat been changed recently? I'd suspect either the thermostat is duff or the coolant system needs bled. Cheapest fix is changing the thermostat so would always start there. These have been known to be a pig to bleed sometimes! The other fault I'm not too sure on, you've mentioned a few of the possibles already so concentrate on those first and work from there. Faults can be a mare to diagnose because these aren't the usual OBD2 so can't plug in the diagnostic to check what the fault is. I'm sure it will be something simple as the D series engines are pretty unburstable. You could check the oil filler cap, see if there's any "mayo" on it which would deffo indicate failed HG, but highly doubt it on one of these. Hopefully someone will jump in with more answers on that fault for you.

Only way really is to raise it a bit or go for airbag suspension mate.

thanks Simon 👍 yes looking at the rubber parts, found the parts for the top e.g. Items 9 & 6 , struggling with the bump stop ATM, Item 11, PN 51722-st3-e01.

Diagram and parts numbers all here dude https://www.parts-honda.uk/honda-cars/CIVIC-AERODECK/1999/VTI/STEERING-BRAKE-SUSPENSION/FRONT-SHOCK-ABSORBER/17S1E01/B__2800/4/8427 Rubber mounts are probably worth doing Don't forget mgzs / rover compatibility for suspension if you don't have any joy using honda part numbers

about to replace front shocks on my aerodeck 1.8vti. looking at the haynes manual, there appear to be quite a few parts in the strut assembly, was hoping to retain as much as poss, but are any of these likely to need replacing also, as well as the damper ? will inspect before replacement and replace any that are not re-usable, but would be useful to know in advance any parts that are likely to be shot given the age and mileage. so I can get these on order, or at least locate a source for a possible replacement. I have had both struts out before to change the top BJs, all appeared ok then, but could be a different story when I disassemble the strut.... I guess a honda diagram of the strut assembly plus part numbers would be useful, will see if I can find online, unless someone has to hand ? cheers for reading folks

Sounds like a frustrating few hours in the heat there. Hate stuff like that.

A day of ups and downs working on the MB2 today Managed to do the last few jobs to get the engine ready to install. However, try as we might we just could not get the engine to go into the mounts, despite everything going ok. After about 4 hours of swearing, hoisting the engine up and down, and tilting it evey which way we could think of, it would just not go into the mounts and the aux belt and pulleys kept getting snagged After giving up and looking on the internet for advice I found that the right hand (drivers side) engine mount supplied was the wrong one. Our looks like this with the "cradle" coming out the side of the mount But it's supposed to look like this with the cradle on top! Because the mount fits to the car and the rest of the kit is correct we didn't realise for an embarassingly long time. Never mind ... I will complain and hope to get supplied the correct part as soon as possible For now this is as far as we've got ... So close but yet so far ...

Looking forward to seeing this and tubs in the metal mate!

Liking the look you've got with it chief

Quick photo from last night. Looking forward to the suspension refresh and getting this thing slammed. Other news - carpet and some dash trim is out ready for welding.

Plastic should be lighter than aluminium also #racecar haha 🤪

Can't wait to get it in the road and go adventuring 🏕️

Wowser! Now that IS a Broon bus! Love these, uber cool cars! Looking forward to seeing where yo go with this one mate, perfect tool for trips and camping.

Some of the rear seat configurations The middle row also flip round to face backwards.. Pretty clever setup 😎

Looks mega! That ac delete plate looks alot smarter than the bung I 3d printed haha

Yeah think the alloy suits! In a OEM+ kinda way. Gonna look ace once everything's sorted

Started getting the bumper fix under way.. It's made out of fiber glass, but the biggest issue is going to be the return underneath that's not really there any more... Should be like this.. So I taped it together in place with masking tape, the duct tape on the back, so that it was all in the right place, then drew around the bottom to make a template of the splitter Waiting for some glue to go off on the wooden template, and haven't had much time after work, so that's probably it for tonight