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[Shackeng]

Fitted a refurbished compressor and new condenser drier to the 3.2 Elite. Just waiting for a radiator as I decided to fit a new one due age (not mine) and fin damage.

[doz]

Rear pad,rear discs, hand brake shoes,rear calipers and rear springs replaced. I wouldn't mind but I only set out to do the rear ruddy pads. Oh and snapping a brake pipe was just the icing Still it brakes and rides like it should now. 

[omega3000]

Started at 11.30am and finished at 5pm with about 26 tea breaks  Took the throttle body off , boy was it gunked up on the underside of the butterfly . All cleaned up now and all breather holes cleaned properly 

[noel]

oil & filter change with a can of wynn's oil additive 

[Seth]

Fitted the roof box ...



... 'cos our touring commitments begin with a vengeance next weekend!

[chrisgixer]

Had a bloody Slough teradactil crap all over it.  Why do they wait until its clean?

[albitz]

Put a nyloc nut on the steering idler (at last) as the original fitment constantly comes loose.Cant fathom why,but it does.
Just took it for a wee drive and it feels better,but still not right really. N/s front tyre has scrubbed the inner edge quite badly in not very many miles so Im thinking wishbones.
There is a certain amount of play in the front bushes,but not having a lot of experience of them,I find it difficult to know how much is too much.
Thinking the best thing would be to polybush them,but then I need to ascertain how much wear/play is present in the rear bushes,so its a bot of a vicious circle.
This all started a couple of months ago when I hit  big pothole and burst a tyre.Cant see anything broken or bent,everything torqued correctly,so maybe its just knackered an already half knackered bush.
Not doing much more today.Too fackin hot,and I have a bathroom & kitchen to decorate.

[chrisgixer]

Jack it up, wheel off, post a close up pic if the rear bush. It'll be buggerd but let's see anyway.

But as you say, another day. It's way too hot to be working on cars.

[Andy H]

Put a nyloc nut on the steering idler (at last) as the original fitment constantly comes loose.Cant fathom why,but it does.
Just took it for a wee drive and it feels better,but still not right really. N/s front tyre has scrubbed the inner edge quite badly in not very many miles so Im thinking wishbones.
There is a certain amount of play in the front bushes,but not having a lot of experience of them,I find it difficult to know how much is too much.
Thinking the best thing would be to polybush them,but then I need to ascertain how much wear/play is present in the rear bushes,so its a bot of a vicious circle.
This all started a couple of months ago when I hit  big pothole and burst a tyre.Cant see anything broken or bent,everything torqued correctly,so maybe its just knackered an already half knackered bush.
Not doing much more today.Too fackin hot,and I have a bathroom & kitchen to decorate.

The bushes start off being too soft so it is never too soon to change them to polybushes

If you hit something hard enough to burst a tyre the subframe might have shifted

[martin42]

Changed both track control arms on the gf's Honda civic,and as normal drop links seized solid ,another job for tomorrow

[hotel21]

Gave her diesel Ford shitbox Fusion a service doing oil, oil filter, air filter and fuel filter as well as brakes looksee and general lookover.  Everything was fantabulous until I went to restart it.  Fugger turned over like a good'un but didn't fire.  And had the management light lit.    Had primed the fuel filter but had to leave it last night as I was thinking of doing a TB on it with a box of Scottish bluebells....

Out this morning (what a way to spend the holidays) and rechecked wiring and connectors.  There are only a couple of connectors disturbed on changing the filter after all...  Reprimed fuel filter and after much huffing and puffing, finally coaxed it into life.  Took it for a spin to see all OK and it was.  And the management light magically cleared itself..  Poorly primed fuel filter I think.

Then onto the Disco.  Bled/changed the brake fluid as it was looking quite old/dark.  Removed/bypassed the EGR and blanked off the redundant connectors.  Found a couple of the vacuum connectors at the main block were unplugged.  Dunno if I disturbed them or if they had been detached for a while.  Either way, combination of reconnection and bleeding restored braking effect to what it should be.  Will do the discs and pads F&R later in the year.

Then onto the Omega and removed the aircon compressor.  Should have done it last year when I got the replacement compressor (thanks Daz) but had a bad dose of couldn't be arsed so waited until today.

No 'howtoo' on here so might well take pics tomorrow when reassembling and use them for a guide.

As long as my get up and go hasn't got up and gone again.

Thursday is a service on daughters 307CC petrol.

Friday probably reshaping and melting replacement steel onto the chassis of sons Disco.

Next week it will piss with rain and I'll be stuck inside doing frekkin decorating.......



........ rather than outside painting the fence and whitework outside the house and making a new door to the shed.  Then painting.



roll on back to work!   
   

[omega3000]

Changed both track control arms on the gf's Honda civic,and as normal drop links seized solid ,another job for tomorrow

Another job for my Angle Grinder 

[david b scott]

Well,fitted new wishbone front suspension, fitted new rear suspension coil,
Oil change, filter, air filter, new drop links,
All parts from Carpart4less.
2new Tyres from tyreshopper £132 fitted at National with 1/2 MOT..
Last week cleaned out all breathers and fitted air filter.
Car going well and feels good.
Have fun. Dave

[RobG]

Well,fitted new wishbone front suspension, fitted new rear suspension coil,
Oil change, filter, air filter, new drop links,
All parts from Carpart4less.
2new Tyres from tyreshopper £132 fitted at National with 1/2 MOT..
Last week cleaned out all breathers and fitted air filter.
Car going well and feels good.
Have fun. Dave

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