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Well, am now one afternoon into removing the steering rack on the Cerb.
Rjben convinced me I have a excessive play problem, so I thought I'd bite the bullet and take it off.
Stunned by the usual terrible engineering. A few coolant pipes have to come off to get the rack out. Unbelievable that they leave metal pipes unsupported but touching the frame, or worse abbuting on brake pipes. Long runs of rubber pipe unsupported around hot areas of the engine, and the general set of just about to expire pipe clips, and rusty old pipes.
All this in a 2000 model lightweight with only 20K on the clock.
I tell you, sitting back, There is no way this car would ever pass an SVA kit car test. And it occurs to me I can either just live with it or throw it all away and start from scratch properly.
Still hopefully will get rack out over the weekend and start taking it apart.
I just realised that I bought a shot blast cabinet last year at a Kit car show, and its gonna see more action on the Cerb than it ever would on a kit car I built.
Shame.
Rjben convinced me I have a excessive play problem, so I thought I'd bite the bullet and take it off.
Stunned by the usual terrible engineering. A few coolant pipes have to come off to get the rack out. Unbelievable that they leave metal pipes unsupported but touching the frame, or worse abbuting on brake pipes. Long runs of rubber pipe unsupported around hot areas of the engine, and the general set of just about to expire pipe clips, and rusty old pipes.
All this in a 2000 model lightweight with only 20K on the clock.
I tell you, sitting back, There is no way this car would ever pass an SVA kit car test. And it occurs to me I can either just live with it or throw it all away and start from scratch properly.
Still hopefully will get rack out over the weekend and start taking it apart.
I just realised that I bought a shot blast cabinet last year at a Kit car show, and its gonna see more action on the Cerb than it ever would on a kit car I built.
Shame.
How right you are Julian. Two weeks after I got mine, I noticed a pool off fluid under the car while in a car park. Managed to get it home, got a wheel off and discovered one of those random, loose hoses you mention had been rubbing against an engine mount and had worn through, depositing half the contents of the rad on the floor.
You are spot on - crap engineering. Well worth £50k brand new.
Edited to say best of luck with the steering rack
>> Edited by flashheart on Friday 8th October 22:20
You are spot on - crap engineering. Well worth £50k brand new.
Edited to say best of luck with the steering rack
>> Edited by flashheart on Friday 8th October 22:20
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