Remedy Water Pump

Look for high rate stock height rear springs.

 

Going to give my 8 a nice wash and wax today so its ready for Cars and Coffee tomorrow

 

I don't recall. But this was three-four years ago right when the letter were sent out to the owners from MNAO. I broke the pedal four or five months before I received the letter.

 

Well, my bump stops are definitely toast.

 

@ Khurram

I used this kit to restore the headlights

 

Car was flooded, so I thought I'd try the towing method :-) worked like a champ, took maybe a little over a quarter mile and a little gray smoke.

I had a buddy with his diesel Jetta pull me down the street with the RX-8 in second gear and the ignition on. After about a quarter mile it started to sustain itself and would idle on its own, its been fine since.

this was much easier than the standard deflood procedure I've done before which is a PITA. Towing took all of 5 minutes to install the hook pull out some straps and head down the road. If I ever flood again in the future this will be the method i use next time.

 

Why is the factory deflood procedure a PIA, it's so easy a caveman could do it. Pull starting a car could go wrong quickly and if it doesn't work you will be towing that bitch back to your house.

 

Haha trolling 9k is trolling and wants people to think factory de flood procedure is not appreciably more of a PIA than a few minutes of towing.

But surely he was totes mcgotes srs bsns about that whole towing back to my house thing, which Ermahgerd would be so hard since I wasn't already towing it at the time any way. :-/

Seriously wtf?

 

No call for that Nathan, he was just pointing out the ease of the factory method...

 

In fairness it's not a trivial thi though,, I mean I've got the old crummy starter so I've got to pull up my wife's car and jumper cables and then eshaft connector and spark plugs and yadda yadda. I get that in the grand scheme of things it's not that hard. But what I did was way easier and convenient and it worked. Just wanted to share the success. I'm sure a search would turn up plenty of successes doing it by the book too. /rant

 

The factory deflood method doesn't involve anything other than one hand on the key and one foot on the gas pedal, which is what 9k was referring to. Nothing to do with the fuses or ess or spark plugs.

Jumper cables are recommended, but saying that hooking two cars together with jumper cables is harder than hooking them together with a tow lie wouldn't be accurate.

 

I was referring to the crank no start TSB

 

And 9k was referring to the gas pedal to the floor when cranking factory method from the owner's manual.

 

Dang it guys! I had the perfect gif for this situation and you went ahead and spoiled it!

 

sorry i thought it would be apparent that since i had to resort to such a drastic and non-cavemanian method, that the method which doesn't even require me to get up out of the seat had been tried and failed.

Next time i will assume nothing is implied or understood as given :-)

 

 

Awww! Nate made sad9k sad :-(((

What did I do with my laptop today? I made sad9k sad!

Oh and RIWWP I'd like to think he was referring to this, which draws from the TSB i referred to and yeah this one is more of a PITA than what i did:
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-...lumber-182410/
I just wanted to share my success, and 9k thought he'd imply that I might be more inept than a neanderthal because i did it an easier way.

Work smarter not harder dude.

 

Nate, that is enough. There is nothing to gain by taunting other members.

 

Put it in the shop -.-

 

New optima red top battery, cleaned power steering connector and added conductive grease, 20 brake pedal stomp, steering wheel full left and right, helping the ECU relearn the idle fuel trims...

It is good to review the process for reseting the DSC and everything after changing the battery. The power steering connector problem was just bad luck. I had no power steering for a while until I started checking fuses and voltages. I'm still surprised by the amount of corrosion inside that connector (at the bottom of 60 Amp EPS fuse).

 

Pulled my rear suspention, end links are seased and stripped, have to get them cut off befor I can swap the front out .. on a good note , I got my stage 2 clutch and replacement bushings .. super happy about that ..

 

Well, these arrived today. I wasn't really a fan of having eyelids on the car, but they grew on me and finally bit the bullet on them... At least the kit is complete now.


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Liquid Gold

 

I like to premix it into salads... but you know, the 8 gets some too.

 

Just picked up my 8 on the 29th, now working on fixing driver side heated seat and power steering!! I hate owners who dont know a thing about cars like this yet own one!!!!!!!!!!! Time to get her running like new