Dash out

[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!

[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

[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!

[MattS2]

Got this to look forward to soon.
Any extra hints or tips to make life easier or tricky bits worth a special mention?

Cheers.
Matt.

[Ian Simmonds]

Got this to look forward to soon.
Any extra hints or tips to make life easier or tricky bits worth a special mention?

Cheers.
Matt.

I've taken best part of 100 pics, and followed Paulgo's excellent text, there's hints and tips all the way through really, from labelling and bagging everything, to removing the Strut brace for better access to the Matrix screws in the engine bay...

I'll generate more as I screw it all back together again...

[20vQC]

Wowowwoww!! NICE JOB!!! hehe If the little experiment I did with the water coolant and the leak doesn't close in about 3 days...well I have to dismantle the whooooole dash too!!! Hey how can I get those instructions to dismantle everything????

[s2avant]

@Matt, Looks like we'll be having some fun on this one.

@Ian, Great photos. Anymore you can post up would be fantastic.

We're planning a weekend to sort the matrix on the dagdag. Hopefully shouldn't be too bad as long as we don't have too many breaks for stella and fags.

Ben

[Ian Simmonds]

With paulgo's consent, after I've screwed it all back together, (and it works), I'll sit down and insert the pictures around Paul's text, then convert it to a .pdf document.

[Jamo]

Now thats a "proper job" I must commend you on attempting and completing this as it must be the most daunting task ever on the S2!

[Fat Audi 80]

Balls the size of melons!

Looks well organised and well executed too.

Cheers,

Steve.

[Ian Simmonds]

Oh boy, that was a hard day, all's going well, but in a slow, skin the knuckles and standing on the head kind of way...

Anyway, the old matrix looked like this


So I think I've found the leak!

And by the end of the day I was here



Just the centre consol and instruments etc to go...

Then it's 'test' it all still works time...

PS - Thanks for the kind words of support folk.

[Fat Audi 80]

Well done! keep going.

I bloody hope it all works when you are done. (Although not as much as you do! )

Cheers,

Steve.

[4WheelDrifter]

At least I know who to call on if I get stuck putting my dash back in. Good work Ian.

[MattS2]

@Matt, Looks like we'll be having some fun on this one.

@Ian, Great photos. Anymore you can post up would be fantastic.

We're planning a weekend to sort the matrix on the dagdag. Hopefully shouldn't be too bad as long as we don't have too many breaks for stella and fags.

Ben

Or rather........Hopefully wont be too bad as long as we don't have too many breaks for taking the dash out.

Matt.

[Ian Simmonds]

Just finished, I'll post more later, but I've got heat and quite incredibly everything works...Many thanks to Paulgo



Going to take the old girl for a 10 mile run to get it thoroughly warm now...