What's happening in your garage this weekend ?
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Decided to fix the drivers window, which fell into the door at last years Wedgefest.
Door card off, and a quick showed that the glass had come out of the channel.
Took the channel out, cleaned the rubber channel, cleaned the botom edge of the glass and applied some black silicone to the channel.
Refitted the channel to the scissor mechanism, then dropped the glass in it.
Would the window fully up, and applied some more silicone along the inner length of the channel.
Added a copule of clamps and left it overnight.
Window now working, just need some silicone lube for the side channels and to refit the door card.
All this done after an excellent run out with the TVRCC 'Dambusters' run
changing the battery on the Range Rover and firing up the lawn mower, strimmer and chainsaw for the first time this year.
Photo Courtesy of Colin Davies (Taffo)
Door card off, and a quick showed that the glass had come out of the channel.
Took the channel out, cleaned the rubber channel, cleaned the botom edge of the glass and applied some black silicone to the channel.
Refitted the channel to the scissor mechanism, then dropped the glass in it.
Would the window fully up, and applied some more silicone along the inner length of the channel.
Added a copule of clamps and left it overnight.
Window now working, just need some silicone lube for the side channels and to refit the door card.
All this done after an excellent run out with the TVRCC 'Dambusters' run
changing the battery on the Range Rover and firing up the lawn mower, strimmer and chainsaw for the first time this year.
Edited by Convert on Tuesday 24th March 07:48
Photo Courtesy of Colin Davies (Taffo)
Edited by Convert on Tuesday 24th March 07:50
Finish rebuilding front brakes and replace brake fluid, hopefully refitting recored rad that I should get back tomorrow, fit a second cooling fan to rad, investigate slight stiffness in steering on full lock, fit new rear shocks, clean roof and start renovation + a number of jobs that I have forgotten about at the moment, but will remember soon as I see the whiteboard on the workshop wall.
Took the Dutch plates off.
Wedge being exported from Holland (done), and get it imported in to Belgium:
All tests passed, had to put the original front Granada brakes back on. Grooved discs and braided hoses not allowed during the test... Feels like using a sponge as brake pedal(rubber brake hose flexing I think that I am not used to) and not impressed with the stopping power.
Now waiting for the Belgium plates, hopefully they arrive next week. And then putting the hispec 300mm 4-pots back on will be the next thing.
Rob
Wedge being exported from Holland (done), and get it imported in to Belgium:
All tests passed, had to put the original front Granada brakes back on. Grooved discs and braided hoses not allowed during the test... Feels like using a sponge as brake pedal(rubber brake hose flexing I think that I am not used to) and not impressed with the stopping power.
Now waiting for the Belgium plates, hopefully they arrive next week. And then putting the hispec 300mm 4-pots back on will be the next thing.
Rob
well it's not the w/e but I detected a bit of a rumble from the front nearside wheel bearing today (It must have been loud to head over my engine and blower!) so I have just opened it up and repacked it with grease.
Last time I did this on the 350i I had no further issues but I reckon I will order a spare just in case. Yes I backed off the lock nut a couple of flats before split pinning.
Last time I did this on the 350i I had no further issues but I reckon I will order a spare just in case. Yes I backed off the lock nut a couple of flats before split pinning.
Wedge having its new rear bearing fitted at the moment. Assuming no issues and MOT is issued then it will get a thorough clean and wax plus new spark plugs and repainted wheel nuts at the weekend. Also intending on stripping down a spare pair of rocker covers so I can fettle and paint them up. Just got back my spare set of injectors which have been serviced and rebuilt by Mr Injector - a lovely thorough job. The ultrasonic cleaning yielded flow improvements from 3% to 6%. These together with tarted up rockers covers and new adjustable fuel regulator will hopefully be fitted before the BBWF.
Took the 390SE's offside sill off again and re-routed the new fuel lines as they were a bit close to the tie-rod forward mount. Refilled with fuel and ran the fuel pump for 10 minutes to check for leaks before refitting the sill, just in case...
Had an entertaining hour trying every combination of nuts and washers on my rear hubs in order to arrive at the original positions, i.e. the nuts were torqued to 250lbf.ft. and the split pin holes lined up! In the process of stripping and rebuilding the back end I'd obviously managed to mix up the parts before I marked them so I had the right nuts with the wrong washers and couldn't get either side to line up. Picked the right parts, wound up with a ratchet whilst rotating the driveshaft then applied the old Britool torquer and everything fell into place
My modified handbrake is so efficient that I just used that to stop the shafts from turning: in the past I've had to refit the wheels and have the car on the floor, in gear and with someone sat with their foot on the brakes!
I put the wheels back on and started the engine then went through the gears; there's a surprising amount of runout on the tyres which was causing a bit of vibration, especially at 80mph! With the wheels off it was smooth all the way to 100mph, even with the suspension on full droop.
It needs rear tyres anyway; the existing ones haven't done massive mileage though they have seen a few burnouts
and are getting a bit close to the wear bars, probably best not to push the MOT tester's patience too far 
Oponeo are doing a good price on Vredestein Sportrac 5s whilst MyTyres have Toyo Proxes CF1s for similar money... decisions, decisions...
Had an entertaining hour trying every combination of nuts and washers on my rear hubs in order to arrive at the original positions, i.e. the nuts were torqued to 250lbf.ft. and the split pin holes lined up! In the process of stripping and rebuilding the back end I'd obviously managed to mix up the parts before I marked them so I had the right nuts with the wrong washers and couldn't get either side to line up. Picked the right parts, wound up with a ratchet whilst rotating the driveshaft then applied the old Britool torquer and everything fell into place
My modified handbrake is so efficient that I just used that to stop the shafts from turning: in the past I've had to refit the wheels and have the car on the floor, in gear and with someone sat with their foot on the brakes!
I put the wheels back on and started the engine then went through the gears; there's a surprising amount of runout on the tyres which was causing a bit of vibration, especially at 80mph! With the wheels off it was smooth all the way to 100mph, even with the suspension on full droop.
It needs rear tyres anyway; the existing ones haven't done massive mileage though they have seen a few burnouts
and are getting a bit close to the wear bars, probably best not to push the MOT tester's patience too far Oponeo are doing a good price on Vredestein Sportrac 5s whilst MyTyres have Toyo Proxes CF1s for similar money... decisions, decisions...
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