I actually did something on my car!!!

Lightweights!

This weekend:

-Trip to Mercman to get stuff
-Fitted new electric seat controllers in doors
-Fixed busted electric window
-Drank beer
-Fitted loads of chrome trim back on car
-Measured up for back rams
-Realised skin was burning, drank more beer to cool down
-Ripped all batteries and rack out of car to tidy up and paint
-Replaced skinny cutoff for huge new one
-Replacement of aforementioned cutoff allowed more current and hence now got proper 6" hop whilst on the hoof ;D Tested new found hydraulic energy fully.
-Repaired door trim
-Cleaned under one wheel arch and was shocked to find no rust and original clean shiney paint
-Made mental note to clean other three arches...
-Went in, drank more beer and cooked massive steak on bbq.

Next weekend: Fit back hydraulics and test thoroughly around town...
Oh, and probably drink beer.

Nice.

I did somthing on my car to I broke the diff coming out of the burnout box at shakespear county raceway just done few test runs on the saturday as well as competing in the burnout comp on the saturday so thought i'll go for it on the sunday and the diff went bang on the first run oh well back down the workshop for some more repairs
i got a small video clip of it in the burnout comp just need to find some way of hosting it

I did something to both my cars at the weekend - well yesterday really. I spent loads of money at the Autojumble at Beulieu onn Saturday!

Fitted a battery cut-off switch
Fitted new Rev-counter
Re-fitted the sump-guard
Made a new ally dash for Mini No. 2
Sprayed the drivers door for Mini No. 2
Sanded and primed the new arches for Mini No. 2

I'll have to get some pics of the other Mini done.

I fitted a whole new headlamp

Stopped outside my house and the 21 year old mastic round the glass gave up, glass fell into the street, smash, phone call to Dave Hart at Peugeot parts, bye bye £90 (holy ****).

Still it was a genuine 5 minute job (they do exist).
Got so excited I fitted a strut brace as well - 10 mins the both ;D

I just immobilised my fiancee's new Fiat Brava within 24 hours of picking it up... went to do an oil change, undid the sump plug, and the thread came out with it. Helicoil kit on order, fiancee still commuting to work in Audi Coupe trailing a blue haze of oil smoke.

Moral of this story is - modern cars are rubbish.

;D

I think the winscreen wiper I replaced last week probably technically wrote off the Zs according to its book value. ;D

I gonna do a thread on this. How much is your car worth a)in cost to you and b) according to the normal price guide. Lets see who's the farthest out there!

Well, in the past few days I have almost removed teh diff and gearbox from a spares Pug 403, put the pedals back in my 404 after I got them pressod off the shaft and freed up as they had siezed from a long layup. I managed to break off the main brake line at the same time, so I now have another job to do.
I also replaced the head on my brother's Ford Falcon. All bar 2 exhaust studs were snapped off, and we had a spare head so we just swapped them.
Here is how easy they are to work on. I removed the head in 33 minutes and after I cleaned the surfaces I fitted teh new one in 49 minutes.
Looks like I will be removing the gearbox from the Transit (again) soon to replace the clutch. My best time for removing the Transit box is 30 minutes and 45 to replace it. I have had a bit of practice.