Looks great, good to clean up the areas behind the bumpers when there is a chance. Big up Retro plates, got some plates made for my Honda S2000 from them, unbelievable accuracy and detail to the originals.
Regarding the clips that hold the bumper on the sides, I just replaced mine with regular nuts and bolts. A bit more work to do when fitting or removing the bumper, but a whole lot more secure. Mine were shot, the bolt was free spinning in them, not tightening.
Wow, great job! I would recommend a summertime cleaning/maintenance job on the cooler radiator ( at 40:00 ) . It's usually full of dust, road debris and dead insects. All you need: garden hose, spray gun (no high pressure!) and a good amount of water. You'll get way better cooling performance if the radiator unit is free of junk. (sry' about my bad English, I'm just a duolingo warrior :-))
it's a good shout and usually i have done that before, the transmission cooler needed lots of fins straightening out when i removed it years ago and some serious washing out to remove the dirt. same for the radiator :)
I've got a few scratches and a couple of chips but a good polish up will do it but the normal rust on some parts of the rear arches only taken the paint off and one plate on the sill I've ordered mine from eBay they mix the paint for fords buy reg and mine is ford tonic blue £15 for a 400ml I don't like dealing with Halfords I've got to paint the inner rears archs but it's the wrong time of year and I don't have a garage yes they are a little rusty but no welding needed and not for a long time yet I've put thick grease on the top till and put the covers back on my front grill is wire tied on as it's broken on both sides
Looking great Andrew, I went through all this myself when I fitted the collection bumper. The connector under the drivers headlight is for the outside air temperature sensor, I believe the cap is actually the temperature sensor, it’s there on mine too. I wasn’t sure what it was but it has a part number and when I searched it that’s what I found out.
I've never heard of an air temperature sensor being in the manual nor on forscan live data, that will show everything that is working and sending a signal to the ecu, nothing comes up. Puzzling.
@@usuallyfixingtinkeringI don’t have my Haynes manual to hand right now to check. But from memory I believe this wires directly into the trip computer to display the outside temperature. I don’t think it even connects through the ECU.
that makes sense, it works off resistance and plus it's easy to install the trip computer on higher specs without a completely different loom potentially
By the way you can get new grill from Ford with reasonable price (that is at least for facelift). And in video is sooo easy to change that bumper for you, because for me bolts was rusted that bad that it was round. I needed cut bumper to pieces to reach bolts and then cut nuts minus shape to get with flat screwdriver that was dreadful job...
my car doesnt have anything under the drivers headlight either looking up that part number its an Outside air temprature relay, or part of AC system, in that corner you will find connectors for high side pressure switch, and compressor , my drivers side front corner has been in a litt;e bump. new wing, wishbone, headlight trackrod end, , indicator only thing i need to replace is my us bumper and US grill as mine are has broken mounting tabs
Looks great, good to clean up the areas behind the bumpers when there is a chance. Big up Retro plates, got some plates made for my Honda S2000 from them, unbelievable accuracy and detail to the originals.
Excellent, what a fantastic job and stunning end result! I salute you for taking the time and care to do this 👍🏻
Thanks for this lovely comment and I appreciate that, it wasn't easy but well worth it!
cannot wait for the plastic arch liner details, especially now green bean has a new iB5 fitted
Coming very soon :)
I am buying a mk1 on Tuesday I’m sooo excited 🎉😂
brilliant you should be! I hope that the car is a good one :)
Regarding the clips that hold the bumper on the sides, I just replaced mine with regular nuts and bolts. A bit more work to do when fitting or removing the bumper, but a whole lot more secure. Mine were shot, the bolt was free spinning in them, not tightening.
I was considering that and I'll keep that in mind, however as you said it makes it a pain if they need to be removed!
Wow, great job!
I would recommend a summertime cleaning/maintenance job on the cooler radiator ( at 40:00 ) . It's usually full of dust, road debris and dead insects. All you need: garden hose, spray gun (no high pressure!) and a good amount of water.
You'll get way better cooling performance if the radiator unit is free of junk.
(sry' about my bad English, I'm just a duolingo warrior :-))
it's a good shout and usually i have done that before, the transmission cooler needed lots of fins straightening out when i removed it years ago and some serious washing out to remove the dirt. same for the radiator :)
I've got a few scratches and a couple of chips but a good polish up will do it but the normal rust on some parts of the rear arches only taken the paint off and one plate on the sill I've ordered mine from eBay they mix the paint for fords buy reg and mine is ford tonic blue £15 for a 400ml I don't like dealing with Halfords I've got to paint the inner rears archs but it's the wrong time of year and I don't have a garage yes they are a little rusty but no welding needed and not for a long time yet I've put thick grease on the top till and put the covers back on my front grill is wire tied on as it's broken on both sides
Looking great Andrew, I went through all this myself when I fitted the collection bumper. The connector under the drivers headlight is for the outside air temperature sensor, I believe the cap is actually the temperature sensor, it’s there on mine too. I wasn’t sure what it was but it has a part number and when I searched it that’s what I found out.
I've never heard of an air temperature sensor being in the manual nor on forscan live data, that will show everything that is working and sending a signal to the ecu, nothing comes up. Puzzling.
@@usuallyfixingtinkeringI don’t have my Haynes manual to hand right now to check. But from memory I believe this wires directly into the trip computer to display the outside temperature. I don’t think it even connects through the ECU.
that makes sense, it works off resistance and plus it's easy to install the trip computer on higher specs without a completely different loom potentially
Brilliant! Next video rear bumper 😆
all done as I said at the start, nothing that I haven't shown before :)
@@usuallyfixingtinkering sorry m8, then I have to give a better look at older vids
Beautiful job mate.
cheers :)
Looks amazing. That new bumper and respray has transformed it. Great job 😁👍
cheers buddy it certainly has :)
I would have painted the rear drum brake with the same car color or black mate, but that's me.
I'm more OEM, black looks a little lost in there.
@@usuallyfixingtinkering try it.
By the way you can get new grill from Ford with reasonable price (that is at least for facelift). And in video is sooo easy to change that bumper for you, because for me bolts was rusted that bad that it was round. I needed cut bumper to pieces to reach bolts and then cut nuts minus shape to get with flat screwdriver that was dreadful job...
that sounds like my first time removing the wings from the bumper!
Very good
Thanks
my car doesnt have anything under the drivers headlight either looking up that part number its an Outside air temprature relay, or part of AC system, in that corner you will find connectors for high side pressure switch, and compressor , my drivers side front corner has been in a litt;e bump. new wing, wishbone, headlight trackrod end, , indicator only thing i need to replace is my us bumper and US grill as mine are has broken mounting tabs
you'll get there it sounds like your mostly getting it mended, it very much looks like an air temperature connector potentially?