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Post by martiny on Jan 31, 2020 14:25:46 GMT
Trouble with alignment bolts is the flat sections let dirt and moisture into the whole length of the thread. No wonder they rust up.
Just got my alignment done at WIM this morning, finally. Car's been up on jacks for an embarrassingly long time while I failed to find time to get the suspension powder coated and fit all new bushes etc. Nice to be told everything adjusted to spec without anything going to the limit of adjustment, so at least the car is straight (first time I've had this one aligned). Also amusing to be asked if the rear subframe was new (I should tell the powder coater they clearly did a good job).
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Post by V6 on Jan 31, 2020 14:32:05 GMT
Zed... doing proper man stuff while I fiddle with cosmetics
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Post by scottydugg on Jan 31, 2020 15:00:47 GMT
Trouble with alignment bolts is the flat sections let dirt and moisture into the whole length of the thread. No wonder they rust up. Just got my alignment done at WIM this morning, finally. Car's been up on jacks for an embarrassingly long time while I failed to find time to get the suspension powder coated and fit all new bushes etc. Nice to be told everything adjusted to spec without anything going to the limit of adjustment, so at least the car is straight (first time I've had this one aligned). Also amusing to be asked if the rear subframe was new (I should tell the powder coater they clearly did a good job). Great news about the alignment! Yeah the old style with the single large slot, nightmare! The revised has two smaller slots and thicker washers, I'm not sure they'd be much better. How did you press in the new bushes? I'm wondering if I'm going this far do I do all that now, or save it till next year.
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Post by dickie on Feb 2, 2020 22:35:55 GMT
I have finished filling the cavitys up with Dinitrol. Fitted uprated EBC discs and greenstuff pads. Painted its underbody with stonechip paint. And put down on its wheels for the first time this decade. I will have puddles of Dinitol on the floor for a week or two till the excess drains out.
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Post by scottydugg on Feb 3, 2020 10:00:28 GMT
5 alignment bolts down, steering rack giving me access issues. Picked up some diff void fillers cheap
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Post by martiny on Feb 3, 2020 16:00:37 GMT
How did you press in the new bushes? I'm wondering if I'm going this far do I do all that now, or save it till next year. I used M10 studding, washers and couplers to wind the old bushes out and new ones in. The big thick washers from the front upper arms long bolts are super useful too. You need a suitably sized tube to receive the old bushes as they come out and I had the good fortune to mention that in passing to a colleague from our mech workshop. He made me one out of a piece of ally scaffold pole: (If you want this tube I'm happy to send it on to you as (a) I'm not bloody doing that again and (b) it's ideal for the job. I don't need it back, just send it on to the next person who needs it when you're done.) At first I tried using ordinary nuts on some studding to pull the old bushes out but they were so tight that it kept stripping the thread on the rod, even when I was using M12 size. But screwfix sell handy 30cm lengths of M10 rod and couplers to join rods together, and since the couplers are about 30-40mm long there's no way they're going to strip that much thread. Much easier. Mercifully, the new bushes (IL Motorsport rubber in my case) go in easier than the old ones came out.
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Post by wannabe on Feb 3, 2020 21:02:23 GMT
Bushes are a job for someone taking my money lol I managed to get the intake manifold bolts done up properly today, rather than just loosely - as per previous rant, a total PITA with the fuel rail in place, and the front bolt on the bottom row is basically impossible to put in without taking the manifold support bracket thing off (which is itself then a faff to get back on when the manifold is on and done up). No2 bolt on the top row feels like it's been stripping the thread from about three turns in, but it doesn't seem to go in any other way (even backing it out until it 'jumps' the end of the thread so you know it's the point to start doing it up) so hopefully it won't shear if/when I have to get the manifold off again... (please, never again). I also looked at my brake discs and concluded they are now suitable as relics from a shipwreck, so I'll have to order some more for the MOT. It might have to be moved forward tomorrow to allow access to the house roof by ladder, but I don't think that is going to happen if the pads and discs are fused... Tomorrow I've got to take the missus' car in for work - if it's not a (recently replaced...) wheel bearing grinding away like a B52 then I fear a gearbox bearing or something... - so I'll enjoy the hour's walk home and then the same back at the end of the day. How much are we betting that it rains? Fun fun!
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Post by FFS Corders on Feb 3, 2020 21:21:23 GMT
Checked oil, coolant, then after cleaning all the mould out of the interior taxed it for the first time in months and drove 650 km to derby then Sheffield and back home over the weekend
I do love how simple it is to get these cars going after laying them up
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Post by Zed. on Feb 3, 2020 22:32:27 GMT
spent 4 hours trying to tidy my workshop (think moving stuff from one pile to creating another ) so I can start fiddlin on 5 type things again..... Rich.
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Post by dickie on Feb 3, 2020 22:38:06 GMT
Is that 5 Different Things. Or 1 Eunos Mx5 Thing. I takes ten times as long to tidy up as does to make the mess in the first place.
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Post by wannabe on Feb 4, 2020 0:20:54 GMT
Checked oil, coolant, then after cleaning all the mould out of the interior taxed it for the first time in months and drove 650 km to derby then Sheffield and back home over the weekend I do love how simple it is to get these cars going after laying them up I may actually be in a position to start mine this coming (dry, not freezing) week for the first time since... May??... so I shall challenge that observation depending on how well it goes lol
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Post by Zed. on Feb 4, 2020 6:51:55 GMT
I may actually be in a position to start mine this coming (dry, not freezing) week for the first time since... May??... so I shall challenge that observation depending on how well it goes lol you must work for the council, I'd have done it it a day.... Rich.
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Post by dadbif on Feb 4, 2020 8:04:42 GMT
If his cylinder head thread gets any longer it will rival “Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus”
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Post by Zed. on Feb 4, 2020 9:39:25 GMT
If his cylinder head thread gets any longer it will rival “Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus” sorta like Stephen King's 'Dark Tower series (8? books in a series of 7, over 40 years in the writing?) LOL. Rich.
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Post by dadbif on Feb 4, 2020 10:31:05 GMT
Indeed, but all the literature we refer to got finished...eventually.
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