Chris H
master of boobies
CoupeDave took his car for an MOT and it failed - badly.
He done the front brakes himself but he wanrted me to sort the rest of the problems.
These were handbrake cable, rear pads, cambelt and MOT.
The car was dropped off to me and Dave got the train home to sunny Fife (about 60 miles away).
Heres some pictures of the car
So straight away there was a problem, the throttle pedal was heavy I had an idea what it would be and I was right, the cables roller was rusted solid
Sods law the thing broke!
I had another one and it was free, some copper grease on it made sure it would remain free
Right away the accel pedal felt a lot better as expected.
Whilst having the initial nose around I spotted this, how it happened I have no idea.
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Heandbrake cable change time, the old cables inner had snapped so the handbrake never worked on the nearside, new cable was bought and fitted of course
fitted at the lever end
I had to kick the rear nearside wheel off as it was corroded solid to the hub, this pic shows the corrosion, I copper greased it to prevent a future repaet of this!
Someone had been in before, the seal was burst, I refitted it and fitted new pads
I was informed that the fron OS caliper slider had siezed so I set about sorting that out, nice and rusty
got it out and cleaned it up
cleaned the rust and brake dust from where the pads slide on the carrier
The top slider never even had its gaiter fitted right so the slider was greased up and the gaiter fitted right
The TB was gummed up as I knew it would be
after it was cleaned the car idled better and revved sharper
So it was then the belt change, old belt
new belt fitted
the car then sailed through its mot test.
He done the front brakes himself but he wanrted me to sort the rest of the problems.
These were handbrake cable, rear pads, cambelt and MOT.
The car was dropped off to me and Dave got the train home to sunny Fife (about 60 miles away).
Heres some pictures of the car
So straight away there was a problem, the throttle pedal was heavy I had an idea what it would be and I was right, the cables roller was rusted solid
Sods law the thing broke!
I had another one and it was free, some copper grease on it made sure it would remain free
Right away the accel pedal felt a lot better as expected.
Whilst having the initial nose around I spotted this, how it happened I have no idea.
[BREAK]
Heandbrake cable change time, the old cables inner had snapped so the handbrake never worked on the nearside, new cable was bought and fitted of course
fitted at the lever end
I had to kick the rear nearside wheel off as it was corroded solid to the hub, this pic shows the corrosion, I copper greased it to prevent a future repaet of this!
Someone had been in before, the seal was burst, I refitted it and fitted new pads
I was informed that the fron OS caliper slider had siezed so I set about sorting that out, nice and rusty
got it out and cleaned it up
cleaned the rust and brake dust from where the pads slide on the carrier
The top slider never even had its gaiter fitted right so the slider was greased up and the gaiter fitted right
The TB was gummed up as I knew it would be
after it was cleaned the car idled better and revved sharper
So it was then the belt change, old belt
new belt fitted
the car then sailed through its mot test.
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