1991 Bike carbed CG13 K10 Micra

After the sprint session at RRG it had become apparent that the rack was moving about on it's mounts, which could well account for why the steering felt a little vague.
Tonight I finally got round to having a look at it, there was quite a lot of lateral movement. The rack is mounted in 2 rubber bushes, each with a strap securing it to the bulkhead. Only the o/s one has a rib either side on the rack to locate it, and this was where the movement was.
I kept the rack off the trailer as a spare and this still had the straps and the bushes on it. They weren't any better than the ones on the car and a search of ebay didn't reveal any new standard or poly ones so closer inspection ensued.

The strap is waisted and the sideways load is only on the 2 small wider sections at either end. This seems to wear the bush in this area only, so.......

Add in some extra metal and grind back to leave this, a more snug fitting strap

A bit of zinc spray and then put it on the car.
Result! No play!
I'll test drive it tomorrow on the way to work but even stationary the steering feels so much more direct.

One of the best upgrades you can ever make - FREE ;D
Have to keep away from 4door micra's, alto's etc.... at present - damn you BiAS

common issue this on the k10's, nicely resolved chap! something every k10 owner could do with!

Had a great day at Area 52, got my rev counter fitted, discovered on the way home that 70mph is only 4100rpm or so, I was well pleased.
Unfortunately the following evening someone stuck a screwdriver through the sidewalls of all 4 tyres because I was parked on the strip of grass opposite their abode, no idea who as it's all flats.
Bit harsh really, leave a note on the windscreen fair enough, come out and remonstrate with me about it, but stabbing all my tyres!?
Anyways, crawled it the 2 miles home and rummaged out 4 steels with airtight, just about legal tyres. It looked curse word on the steelies, so I set about sorting out the money for 4 new tyres.
I'd only been talking to someone at Area 52 on the Saturday about the tyres and how I'd settled for 165/60/14s when really I should've spent the extra and got the Nangkang AS1s in 165/55/14. So, I ordered them Tuesday night, turns out they were in Germany, but still arrived on Friday night, ready to be fitted on Saturday morning

The drive home on flat tyres and the consequent (not so careful) stacking of the wheels whilst waiting for the new tyres hadn't been kind to the rim edges. Most of the damage was just to the paint luckily, so in my usual ar$e about face way of doing stuff, I decided to try something that I'd been wondering about for a while. Sunday afternoon saw me masking up 2 of my freshly fitted tyres and the wheel centres and painting the rims of the 2 worst wheels.................................................................



























Fluro orange!

The picture really doesn't do justice to quite how bright they are!
Only had enough white primer and lacquer to do 2 and wasn't sure whether I'd like them.
Here's a picture of it at work to show what they look like on the car


After a week of driving it with them on I'm sold on the fluro lips, my dilemma is whether to paint the ones on the other side orange to match or fluro green.
Over to you.

Id do green on the other side too!

Do they stand out at night too?

Well, I went for the green in the end.................
Ended up spending most of the day doing them turns out that the can of fluro green I had was at best 'past it's best'. Rather a lot of paint not drying, followed by rather a lot of trying to remove fluro green sludge from rims, closely followed by rather a lot of paint reaction, followed by more sanding, followed by more paint reaction, etc until I'd had enough and put them back on the car as I wanted dinner and my hands to look slightly less green!
Still, never mind, I'll do them again when I get a spare couple of hours (and some more paint)
And as an added bonus I won a set of bike carbs and a bike fuel pump off e-bizzle tonight.............................

You got the carbs ! NIce one !

good news about the carbs

this is going to be a great little fun beast

Thanks guys
Yesterday was my 35th and I had a great birthday, I treated myself to a day off work and went and bought myself a birthday present..............
4.5 hrs work in my local (proper) scrapyard saw me and 24vster turn this scrappage scheme Micra

into this

Meaning that this

will soon have this in it

Then all my mates came round in the evening, bringing me this

Which was double battenburg inside
After which much drinking of Southern Comfort and ginger beer was done