I'm building a campervan! so a lot of the videos will be about that project. I’m also doing a few things on my Alfa Romeo Giulietta. The channel will have many other fun, creative, interesting and adventurous stuff for you viewers to watch!
My background - I've been in the Graphic industry for many years, but have also picked up some handy tips & skills as a keen DIYer and Building trade over the years. I used to race karts, and some of my knowledge has come from that when it comes to mechanics etc, in case you where wondering 'Maverick 51' was my race name and number, hence the name for good luck:-) Look out for new uploads and please don't forget the like and subscribe.
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You are an absolute legendary mechanic I am so impressed. I am thinking about buying a 2012-2013 Alfa Romeo Giulietta QV manual. But everyone says they are too unreliable and problematic. What do you think? I had a lovely Alfasud it was an 1981 model from memory I had to get a water pump and timing bet kit put on it and it needed a full clutch kit at one stage. The water pump had seized into the block I had to chop it out with a cold chisel (actually my Dad RIP was a legendary mechanic he hacked it out of the block for me). It isn’t a good setup. I put it in with a new O ring and plenty of anti seize for next time. We also put a full clutch kit in and had the flywheel machined. I did 100,000km trouble free though and loved driving it. We then purchased a four door Alfa Romeo 33 which was about a 1983 with 100,000km on it. I just serviced it regularly and only put brake pads and tyres on it in 50,000km. I lost it when my partner and I split up sadly. I have bought sensible, boring, family cars for the past 20 plus years to transport my family around in. Now I have the chance to buy a say 2012-2013 Alfa Romeo high performance turbocharged manual hatch or sedan. These sell for about $14,000AUD in good condition many have between 100,000 and 160,000km on the speedo. Occasionally a lower km one pops up. I thought perhaps a QV Giulietta some do 0-100kph in 6 seconds and are about 190kw. I like a quick toy. Being a family man in AustraliaI don’t have bundles of cash to keep it on the road if it keeps breaking down. I would appreciate your guidence. Are these good reliable vehicles or is there a better model I should look at instead. Thanks for your valuable time. Kind regards Michael H from Australia csimic23@gmail.com
Great job, I have a 159 TBi and seems like there is a leakage of break fluid, seems like clutch slave cylinder is dead, so there is a leakage somewhere in the system, maybe the reservoir , or some lines.... I am just devastated, after changing spark plugs, water pump, all the belts, new battery, new coolant and coolant reservoir, now this problem... I think this might be my last Alfa Romeo.... I just do not have the will power an dmone
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Now that's what I call star gazing in style. Really impressive.
I did a try to clean the MAP on my 2.0 Giulietta but it stucked. Must be an idiot who designed that a plastic slides into another plastic. I guess someone put a replacement part without oil or grease and dry out and now i cant' remove from the intake. Do i have to push something else when i try to slide it off? First Alfa Romeo model in 25 years of ownership which i can't fall in love.
I dont even need to do mine yet, and i was having horror thoughts of all kinds of special tools needed. But you demonstrated to use most of the tools i already have, so just a second hand engine hoist and locking tool and i would be good to go. Thanks for this information.
You're welcome! Thanks for sharing. It was a horror thought for me but once you get into it, its fine besides you have this video and if you get stuck i'll try and remember what i did lol
They have the worst engine mount location, like on opel. every place you mount it, engine twist in radiator. This can only mother love. Maybe engineer shoud go to retire!! just in case they dont do any crazy engineering again. To remove starter and supports the engine i can probably remove gearbox, change the clutch and mount gearbox on any VW group car.
This is a great video, I’ll be doing it myself soon so a great resource! I just have a couple of questions. You may not reply but here goes 😅… Firstly why was there a need to remove the callipers? And secondly is there a need to remove the outer tie rod/track rod end from the hub? Surely if you’re also disconnecting the steering rack from the subframe then there is no need? As the steering rack will dangle along with those components as they’d still be attached to the hub? Or am I missing something? Also I have found that if removing that lower ball joint is tricky and you’re not replacing the arm itself, then you can undo the 2 bolts/nuts that connect the arm to the subframe, pull it out and it’ll give you more than enough angle with the hub to pull out the driveshafts.
Hi Maverick. Great video thanks for sharing. One question if u don’t mind… that metal gasket/seal thing… did you put that in the hole first or kinda glue it to the EGR valve? Did it come out with the EGR valve on removal or did u fish it out of the hole? Great work cheers mate 👍👍👍
Hi Steve. Thank you for watching my video. The metal ring was just placed back in without any gasket seal, i just used a steady hand to place it back in the hole, just make sure it stayed in there and the EGR slipped straight back in. Hope this make sense :-)
Thanks for your reply Maverick. I changed it out yesterday. I couldn’t understand why u disconnected battery. I found out when I went to get the lower EGR bolt and got sparked at 🤣🤣🤣 When EGR removed there was no metal ring that came out with it. I looked in the bore with a mirror and it looked like it had stayed in place so I just fitted new one. Anyway thanks for all the info. Cheers mate 😃😃😃
loving your work!! #builtnotbought I am converting an ex amazon sprinter and enjoying the the process, making everything myself so glad i found your channel as I'm definitely copying this pull out bed design (if you don't mind haha😄) Cheers 🤜💥🤛
Appreciate your posting of this video. I have very small hands and even after removing the throttle butterfly unit (throttle body?) I couldn't get near the egr valve bottom bolt as there were 2 pipes in the way. Were there any parts removed in the making of this video?
You sir, are an absolute legend! I have a whiney tbi and this is exactly what ive been looking for! Only painful bit is buying the clutch, flywheel and slave cylinder! Ouchy!
Great job! I’ve been scribbling drawings of a bed like that with a shell around it so it’s like a slide-out extension. Do you think that’d work or would it be too heavy (could be mitigated by fold out legs to support the bed pod in the Out position?).
Hi, your map sensor was so good, mine after 318.000km never cleaned is like a piece of charcoal. My car was limp mode at ramdom, I replaced MAF but limp mode still there so I bought a MAP sensor now. Hope this will solve problem. Not any dtc on my software. 😂
Hi, I've cleaned my egr, dellorto, but after one year check engine light came again. So I replaced by a new one, aftermarket, multiecuscan to say ecu a new egr was inside engine. That egr runs ok only one year, was blocked. Then I replaced by the old one and run, again informing ecu by mecuscan or alfaobd, ok 6 month then again P490. Finally I placed a plate and a egr-off by a chiptuner. Now engine runs perfect, Fiat Doblo 1.6 105cv 313.000km.
Hi there, thanks for the videos - great work! I am currentley in the middle of this job myself and I'm wondering why did you need to loosen the Subframe? Cheers!
Félicitation pour ce travail et surtout d'avoir pris le temps de cette vidéo. J'ai un problème de climatisation sur ma giulietta. Froid à gauche chaud à droite, si quelqu'un a des informations là dessus je suis preneur. Bravo et merci pour tous ce travail. Patrick.
Ciao ho visto ora il tuo video, è davvero interessante, ma volevo chiederti quanto olio consuma la tua giulietta ? Te lo chiedo perché ho la stessa versione di Giulietta
