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Andy Brown

Welcome to my channel!
Also known as Junkendriven

You'll find a mix in here, some electrical and electronic tear-downs and attempted fixes. Some car maintenance and general HOWTOs and generally anything I can get my hands on and pull apart to show you good people how things work or why things do what they do!

I'd like to hear from you too, if you have something you'd like taken apart, figured out how it does what it does then send me a message.
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https://www.junkendriven.org/

Andy Brown
Not too bad a job to be honest this one, just a few tough bolts! Changing the two front control arm, also called wishbones on a Vauxhall Corsa D 2008 in this case but this applies to all up to around 2013.
Replacing the front control arm (Wishbones) on a Vauxhall Corsa 2008
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In this video we do quite a few little fixes. One to the 2008 Vauxhall Corsa which has a clunking noise from the front end whilst away in Kent on holiday. Whilst there, also helping do a repair on my brothers Porsche Boxster which involves taking the front bumper off. Finally, when back home my Wife's 2011 Vauxhall Corsa develops a horrible metallic noise coming from the engine, so investigating and finding the fix there, thankfully not as bad as it could have been! Follow my on Facebook and Instagram #junkendriven https://www.facebook.com/junkendriven/ https://www.instagram.com/junkendriven/
Vauxhall Corsa troubles whilst on holiday, fixing a Porsche Boxster and a nasty noise from a Corsa
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Thanks to an amazing delivery from Jeff (Thank you!) I've now got all the parts ready to re-assemble the rear axle on my Volvo 480 restoration project car. This involves the rear trailing arm, coil springs, shock absorber, axle, torsion rod and more! It took most of the day to do it (and re-do it when I made mistakes) but it's now back in place and looking amazing. Take a look at my other videos for more of the Volvo480 project.
Re-assembly of the rear axle, suspension and trailing arm components on my Volvo480 project car
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This is a long video where I fully dismantle the Lay-Z-Spa Bestway Airjet pump unit. This is the older air pump model (4-wire) with airjets. The unit has one water pump with impellor, flow sensor, temperature sensor, thermal cut-out (2x) and airjet blower motor and assembly. I show how to get to each component and if needed replace the seals. (Some of this also applies to the Coleman hottubs too as they share a lot of the internal parts) The initial descaling is done using the Easy-Scale from kelvinsgadgets.co.uk order from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3RCzGem Index/timecodes for specific parts to jump to: 00:00 - Introduction 4:55 - Disassembly of main casing 5:45 - Identifying the main parts 11:20 - Main circuit board/controller removal 11:45 - Water pump access and power supply (underneath) 13:00 - Water pump removal 15:00 - Water pump impellor replacement, seals replacement 16:25 - Heater/heating element removal 17:20 - Thermal cut-out 19:45 - Temperature senor removal and seal replacement 25:00 - Airjet pump 27:40 - Water flow sensor and seals 29:20 - Airjet main pipe and identification 30:50 - Airjet main motor removal 33:35 - Airjet chamber and front seals Hope you enjoy this video. All the seals and parts are listed below: Heater seals kit - https://amzn.to/3aGUlNW Water flow sensor seal - https://amzn.to/3ckdkOy Pump seals and replacement impeller - https://amzn.to/3PCjaJF Water pump seal - https://amzn.to/3ocWbZX Seals for the egg pump A & B pipes - https://amzn.to/3IJRboS HG Limescale remover (powerful and good for taps in hard water areas too!) - https://amzn.to/3uUOtHA
Tear-down and disassembly of the Lay-Z-Spa Airjet pump unit, help find E02 E08 and other faults
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This is a video on the AQP Novatek NT96660 X1 dashcam that uses the Sony Exmor IMX307 sensor and records in 1080P front and back at 30fps. I'm installing it into 2008 Vauxhall Corsa (D) showing how to install onto a switched ignition fuse the glovebox and adding extra USB charge sockets. NOTE - I purchased all items in this video, so this is NOT sponsored or endorsed in any way, I just bought the items and wanted to review them. The AQP unit can be bought at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3a87n6N Sandisk 128Gb microSD card: https://amzn.to/3yDSq5J Sonru QC3.0 USB car cigarette charger adapter: https://amzn.to/3bJm1le
AQP Dashcam X1 Novatek NT96660 installation into Vauxhall Corsa D 2008 - dual front and rear camera
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We visited the Chester-Le-Street Steam and Vintage Fayre this year to see the classic cars, steam engines and watch the events. Really good event, well organised and some lovely old cars and engines there. Not lots of classic cars but I managed to find a few that I liked. To find out about the event: https://cls-steam.co.uk/ Pay on the entrance. My aim is to have my Volvo480 ready and attend with it next year. Fingers crossed!
Chester-Le-Street Steam and Vintage Fayre - 9th and 10th July 2022 visit from #junkendriven
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After the recent issues with my 2011 Vauxhall Zafira 1.7cdti exhaust gas recirculation value, the ebay seller has sent me a replacement! Let's see if this works and solves my still ongoing lumpy driving and issues I'm having with this car. I need to get this resolved soon otherwise this car may be the next to get replaced in my fleet.
Another go at my Vauxhall Zafira EGR as seller sent a replacement part
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This video is a general waffle on about what's going on in the channel, whilst replacing the rear brake pads on the 2008 Vauxhall Corsa that my daughter owns. I also make a (bad) attempt at repairing the damaged paintwork. Feel free to berate and comment below on how to resolve the paintwork as it's a job I hate doing and any tips or help would be very welcome.
Repairing the paintwork and rear brake pads (rear drum) on Vauxhall Corsa and general channel chat
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Making slow but steady progress on my project Volvo 480 2litre ES. This time two big boxes of parts turned up to help rebuild the rear axle, is it enough or are there yet more parts needed? Lots more coming soon and getting the car rolling once again should be in the next video! Thank you for subscribing and contributing to the channel, comment below if you like this series of videos.
Volvo480 parts haul - lots of rear suspension parts and axle progress
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