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As you've probably guessed by all the wanteds i've put up i'm having trouble with my 5...long story short i've been having trouble with high HC's and also bad idling and crap brakes,all of which have now been traced back to a leaking brake servo cockin up the emissions and making the pedal crap.
Yesterday i bought a used 1 as i bought a seal kit from renault that looked seriously alien,i mean i'll tackle most things but DAMN!!!,
came to fit it today thinking how hard can it be...4 nuts to secure...2 for the master cylinder and a pin for the pedal...easy i thought....how wrong was i!,2 nuts for the master cylinder but the pipes wont let it come far enough away to move the servo,fair enough i'll undo the brake pipes....cant do that without moving anti perc pipework,then theres the matter of how it comes out of the engine bay...the bottom by removing the shaft or the way i did it,from the top as follows :evil:
1.remove water/vac/boost hoses from carb
2.remove carb from manifold
3.remove inlet manifold
4.curse at he chronic backache as a result of stages 1-3
5.deep breath and carry on removing the servo from engine bay
6.curse more shoutin "i always win you b**tard" at the car
7.work in reverse from stages 5-1 enduring even more backache.
8.bleed brakes and take time to relax your back lying on the scabby bit of carpet that every 5 owner should have
9.start up and marvel while grinning cheshire cat like at the firm pedal and perfect idle
10 return to your home while having a quick glance back from your front door thinking "i love that car"
Anyway you may well be thinking what a load of pointles rambling (probably true) but i thought i'd share it with you all anyway.
Yours...sat at home with a brew :wink:
Lee
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