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by Bx Bandit » 08 Sep 2010
mat_the_cat wrote:If you're binning the joint then what's the problem with the wedge type?
You can even use it in bed if you're feeling really kinky!
None if you're binning the joint, good point, but it is a rather 'blunt instrument' and can bruise surfaces, never found mine much use at all.
Erm..........you last comment, got any pics?!
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by mnde » 08 Sep 2010
Erm yes - wedge type is what I used when I did the driveshaft, because Darrin didn't have anything better...
so yeah it made a bit of a mess of the bj boot and gashed the trackrod end one.
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by Bx Bandit » 08 Sep 2010
Got your bits today MNDE, so I'll fit tomorrow!
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by Bx Bandit » 09 Sep 2010
Right, I need to go to my garage and sort mindys neg out.
I also gotta get some shit sorted to give to Jim
I also gotta get my camping shit sorted
i also gotta get some booze, this time, I'll mostly be drinking Cyder!
I also gotta get some food
flubba dubba dib dob
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by docchevron132 » 09 Sep 2010
Cider? Is that wise?
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by Philhod » 09 Sep 2010
Cider? Is that wise?
But that won't stop him
I got all my camping stuff, I'll pick booze and food up on my way tomorrow
Tools are in too including Home made rubber friendly joint splitter.
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by docchevron132 » 09 Sep 2010
Philhod wrote: including Home made rubber friendly joint splitter.
some sort of vibrating, easy insertion butt plug?
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by Bx Bandit » 09 Sep 2010
I wish!
What's wrong with cider anyways????????????
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by Philhod » 09 Sep 2010
I wish!
What's wrong with cider anyways????????????
1 I'll arrange an insertion demo tomorrow night Bandit xxxx
2 It turns you into a Mat
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by mnde » 13 Sep 2010
Well, what a weekend!
Thanks again Bandit and Doc for doing a hubbage swap on the field at Stratford. And Phil who helped out too - nice to meet you mate!
That old nearside bearing was FUBAR, so the drive back was most enjoyable with the new one
Just need to sort out a NS trackrod end joint that's on its way out, then it's all good.
Oh except that the ns B pillar needs some love with a welder
Thanks also to Doc for sorting me out with some bonnet soundproofing and to Vanny and John for installing it - by torchlight!
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by Philhod » 13 Sep 2010
Torchlight is for the win. Now you've seen the team in action perhaps you will now take things apart yourself instead of paying to get it NOT fixed.
If ever you get stuck you have all the expert back up you could wish for either on here, pm or phone, to get you unstuck
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by mnde » 01 Oct 2010
Hello chaps,
Remember at Stratty, Smiffy found a bush had gone on the n/s of the rack, and Doc said "ah they always go on the nearside".
What is it actually called and how difficult to replace?
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by Fish_Botherer » 01 Oct 2010
Is that a bush or perhaps the boot? The boot always goes on the nearside because that's the more awkward side to replace it on..... (sod's law, or just a case of it being left until needed for MOT for that very same reason).
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by docchevron132 » 02 Oct 2010
ahh, erm, no, it was the bush the rack floats in.
Other than "bush" I dont know another name for it.
Replacement would be major rack strippage, and then you'd have to have one made since you can't get rack bits any longer.
Easier by far to throw a known good rack in the fucker!
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by mnde » 05 Oct 2010
Hmmmm....
It's starting to look like a bit of a project to keep this car on the road, what with the prospect of swapping the rack and FDV, sorting out the rusty B Pillar...
... and at the weekend I found some very soggy cardboard boxes and a soaking wet boot carpet caused, predictably, by a hole in the ns corner of the inner wing hidden behind the side panel - where it joins the floor. Back in 2006 when the exhaust hanger fell off, I asked the garage to make a repair, which they did by fashioning a piece of metal with a hook on it, and screwing it in place through some "good metal".
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by smiffy » 05 Oct 2010
perhaps you should see what Chris had to repair on my car... yours might be easy by comparison.
They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away...
but now that most of them are muslim, I find bacon and sausages work better!
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by Philhod » 05 Oct 2010
If the exhaust hanger "fell" off there wouldn't have been any good metal, At least not within the area the hanger needed to go.
They probably stuck it to a piece less rusty, rather than cut out to good metal; and weld a piece in, which is the easy fix you need to do
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by mat_the_cat » 05 Oct 2010
Ah, but there's your 'easy' and 'easy' for a garage who's out to make money...
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by Philhod » 05 Oct 2010
I don't mind anyone making money Mat, it's the ones that charge for a bodged job.
Fortunately I have not found any serious rust on K39. Couple of little bitz that I will deal with err....,appropriately
Very strangely a hole about 1/4" round on the inner front wing on the RESERVOIR side
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by Way2go » 05 Oct 2010
Philhod wrote:
Very strangely a hole about 1/4" round on the inner front wing on the RESERVOIR side
That's a bolt hole for you Phil!
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