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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6630 on: 29 December 2013, 13:59:04 »
Discovered I was running on slicks....

....still, enough traction available, even in this cold, wet weather, so they'll be replaced with normal summer tyres :P
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6631 on: 29 December 2013, 14:07:21 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 13:59:04
Discovered I was running on slicks....

....still, enough traction available, even in this cold, wet weather, so they'll be replaced with normal summer tyres :P
Hopefully the new ones will have some air in them ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6632 on: 29 December 2013, 14:25:04 »
Quote from: ex taxi al on 29 December 2013, 14:07:21
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 13:59:04
Discovered I was running on slicks....

....still, enough traction available, even in this cold, wet weather, so they'll be replaced with normal summer tyres :P
Hopefully the new ones will have some air in them ::)
Pressures are correct. I tend to run 32 at front and 30 at rear. Even so, the wear pattern on rears implies overinflation.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6633 on: 29 December 2013, 16:41:02 »
Found a bit of a gas leak. ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6634 on: 29 December 2013, 18:15:04 »
Following on from the Christmas Eve puddle encounter, today I have been doing mostly this...







Took forever to set, but sanded down to 800grit ready for priming. Had to strip as much as I did as the paint had cracked in chunks over a third of the length :o

Split was only 6" or so ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6635 on: 29 December 2013, 20:22:25 »
I think you'll find 800grit way too fine for primer. 
Actually, it's probably a bit much to be sanding the primer with 800
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6636 on: 29 December 2013, 20:25:23 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 14:25:04
Quote from: ex taxi al on 29 December 2013, 14:07:21
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 13:59:04
Discovered I was running on slicks....

....still, enough traction available, even in this cold, wet weather, so they'll be replaced with normal summer tyres :P
Hopefully the new ones will have some air in them ::)
Pressures are correct. I tend to run 32 at front and 30 at rear. Even so, the wear pattern on rears implies overinflation.

So which tyres are these? The F1's or the sport maxx?

Shall I bump the oof tyre thread?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6637 on: 29 December 2013, 21:06:42 »
SC5s. Good fooking riddance
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6638 on: 29 December 2013, 21:14:43 »
Quote from: Nick W on 29 December 2013, 20:22:25
I think you'll find 800grit way too fine for primer. 
Actually, it's probably a bit much to be sanding the primer with 800
The initial shaping was done with 40 grit, so still pretty rough, but no longer fluffy...
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« Reply #6639 on: 29 December 2013, 21:16:20 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 21:06:42
SC5s. Good fooking riddance

Thought you where saving those for the airfield do. ;D


...of all the things to survive the fire. ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6640 on: 01 January 2014, 11:48:13 »
Transmission main shaft oil seal swap. Sorted. :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6641 on: 01 January 2014, 11:50:05 »
I seem to be missing a car. I'll ask Mrs TB when I get out of the bath if she knows where it is.

It wasn't that windy last night, was it?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6642 on: 01 January 2014, 15:05:49 »
Beer induced befuddlement per chance ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6643 on: 01 January 2014, 16:00:16 »
;D mini car park ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6644 on: 01 January 2014, 16:00:45 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 29 December 2013, 21:16:20
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 December 2013, 21:06:42
SC5s. Good fooking riddance

Thought you where saving those for the airfield do. ;D


...of all the things to survive the fire. ::)

...and what to fit next, btw?
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