Dash out

[sjw185]

Good work I was too scared until I got quoted half a grand to fix my one from a local garage
Took me about 10 hours to do my avant last year, Filled my breeks when I found the coupe had a wet carpet but turned out to be dodgy windscreen install phew!

[Ian Simmonds]

Incidentally,

The joint between the AirCon unit pipes in the car (as they exit through the bulkhead)


(This pic is before I bagged it up to stop any contamination/condensation etc)

Is quite dirty with dried dye or similar, before I put the whole lot back together again, I'm going to need to clean it to get a good seal again, but, is there anything I should/shouldn't be doing to make sure I don't get a system leak once it's all back together?

Thanks

Ian

[Ian Simmonds]

Well, woke up this morning and took my brave pills, had the AirCon de-gassed, picked up 'the Matrix'... thus.



Parked the ol' girl up next to the toolboxes and took one last look at it...



Ripped into it with gusto, photographed every stage, and bagged up and labelled all the bits as they came out, followed some superb instructions from Paulgo , used the ETKA screen printouts and generally had a right ol' royal time.

By about the 3 hour mark I was here...



And could see the offending item, which, put up bit of a fight, what with having to dismantle half the engine bay just to get at the Air-con, heater box and heater matrix screws...

But, as I walked away after probably 5 hours work, I was here...



And bang on schedule.

More brave pills tomorrow, me thinks!