Learning to walk.. need help lol.
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From: Vilseck Germany
Learning to walk.. need help lol.
So i just bought my dream car, a 94 FD. Its been 2 days since I've boughten it ... and im still paranoid that somethings wrong with it. I'm seriously at war with myself about it. It my first FD AND my first turbo charged car let alone twin turbo. I bought it for 8,500 with 60,000 miles on it. Its Japanese Spec, right seat drive. I did plenty of research on this forum before buying it also. Made sure the turbos pulls at the right psi, checked to see if it was recalled. ( bear with me the questions are coming. ) So it check out in my book, did the best i could do with out taking it to a garage which even then isn't a good idea cause germans don't do the street car scene lol. * I had mechanic tell me to take my AEM intake off my BMW and put the stock back on cause its better LOL *
I drove it 300k from frankfurt, germany to my house. Towards the end of the trip the oil pressure light on the dash kept going on and off .. next day i jacked it up and changed the oil, to find 1 qt of oil came out of the pan and still had a Japanese oil filter on there >_< The engine is all stock btw. So the oil changed made the light stop coming on. Had it inspected to get it registered and it failed inspection.... There was minor oil leak coming somewhere from the trany area, but the oil pressure stay the same and dip stick doesn't significantly change and the left shock was (oily dirty) and the mechanic said it was leaking. Also, my power steering fluid is close to empty.
So i guess my questions are -
1.) I dont know what series FD i have lol
2.) Common oil leak areas?
3.) Does oil preasure light come on when your low on oil?
4.) need to get a set of coil-overs?
5.) Power steering fluid or automatic transmission fluid ... to replace power steering fluid.
6.) Is there Haynes manual for the 3rd Gen, can't find one.
I drove it 300k from frankfurt, germany to my house. Towards the end of the trip the oil pressure light on the dash kept going on and off .. next day i jacked it up and changed the oil, to find 1 qt of oil came out of the pan and still had a Japanese oil filter on there >_< The engine is all stock btw. So the oil changed made the light stop coming on. Had it inspected to get it registered and it failed inspection.... There was minor oil leak coming somewhere from the trany area, but the oil pressure stay the same and dip stick doesn't significantly change and the left shock was (oily dirty) and the mechanic said it was leaking. Also, my power steering fluid is close to empty.
So i guess my questions are -
1.) I dont know what series FD i have lol
2.) Common oil leak areas?
3.) Does oil preasure light come on when your low on oil?
4.) need to get a set of coil-overs?
5.) Power steering fluid or automatic transmission fluid ... to replace power steering fluid.
6.) Is there Haynes manual for the 3rd Gen, can't find one.
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From: Barrie, ON
1. Series 6 / Unless your talking about model?
2. Any gaskets/connections
4. f the shocks are done you might as well get some coilovers, not much price difference if they need to be replaced anyways and youll be getting an upgrade
5. PS fluid
Sorry I cant be of help otherwise really, dont want to misinform you of anything so its probably best someone else tells you lol
2. Any gaskets/connections
4. f the shocks are done you might as well get some coilovers, not much price difference if they need to be replaced anyways and youll be getting an upgrade
5. PS fluid
Sorry I cant be of help otherwise really, dont want to misinform you of anything so its probably best someone else tells you lol
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