So where have you been?
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Where haven't i been? WOOF!!
Going back a few months I fixed the oil leak.
Just a weeping seal, When i refitted the shaft i must have knocked the seal because the garter spring was loose in the back.
Rather than try to get it back in i just pulled the seal and replaced it.
No more leak.
The rear tyres were catching on the arches so i bought some crash bolts and fitted them to the rear hubs.
That got most of it but i still had to go back in and trim this little lug off.
And re treated it with some raptor
No more rubbing since then.
I tried to get out as much as possible to get miles on the car.
I sourced some fittings and hose for the aircon pipes.
Had to solder the new fittings to the lexus pipes and then smeared in epoxy as it had a couple of tiny pin holes when i pressure tested it.
The pipes crimped on and i got the system filled. I had to make an adaptor as the mr2 seems to have an odd sized high side port which the standard adaptors don't fit.
It now blows fairly cool air and i can confirm that its still working after the last month so it cant be too bad.
Found a screw in one of my rear tyres which was luckily fixable since i only had 2k miles on them at the time.
I did some research on fabric sealer and this stuff came well recommended.
So i treated the alcantara part of the seats while i was giving everything a good polish.
Then i set off on a big roadtrip.
This was day 1 we did 550 miles stopping in germany
Day 2 600 miles getting the midnight ferry from Frederikshaven
Day 3 we landed in Oslo and was mostly a day off
Day 4 200miles
Day 5 100milesaround the LeardalsorenRing
Day 6 200miles
Day 7 200miles
Day 8 200miles
Day 9 Rest day mostly and back to the ferry
Day 10 600 miles Back to germany
Day 11 550miles Back home
Back home
It was another truly amazing trip with some brilliant scenery and great people, picture dump to follow in the next post.
The only thing in the car that went wrong was a fog light bulb, so i lived without it
Total mileage for the trip was about 3.5k so a really good shakedown for the car, it really is an amazing road trip car. The seats were comfy even for the night we had sleeping in them, the aircon and cruise control worked well and the engine is pretty quiet even when doing a steady 90mph up the autobahn.
Considering how unknown a lot of the car was and how many pieces it was in not that long ago i was rather impressed that nothing came up.
After the end of the run i haven't added up how much fuel we went through as that way insanity lays but it was quite a lot.
I did push it a bit and found out the speed is still limited to 112mph so I'm guessing the restrictor is in the lexus ecu and not something that is easy to remove, its annoying but after considering the amount of times I'm likely to get up to those speeds and then subtracting the times where its legal to be at those speeds there wasn't much left so i have decided its best to leave it in place for now.
The miles are adding up already and that wont be the last big trip this year, hopefully i will find time to do a Scotland road trip too before the weather gets bad.
