So not updated in a while - (lots of words here sorry) not much happening at the minute, but still a few jobs ticked off. Lets start with what happened with a weird vibration that i was having through the car, not long after i put the cone filter on, so i swapped back to the OE airbox with Panel filter - still the same issue. So a nice day at a weekend i jack'd up and had a look, Low and behold the gearbox was sitting on the Lower arm again!! Now back in the thread you will note that the gearbox mount had went with the Bolt snapping. Fortunately it was still within the 12 months for Rentec doing the work - this is where it got weird, normally with parts, get the usual 12 months warranty, but what they had done was send the mount away to be drilled and tapped, new bolt.
But they were more than happy to book the car in to have a look and work out where to go from there. Me being me i thought lets have a look, so whipped the battery box out etc and there was the bolt, i was half expecting the head just to fall away if it had snapped, to my surprise nope solid!! So out with the jack and stands, jack'd the box up and simply tightened the bolt back up, Phone'd the garage back to advise this, but still wanted the car to check it all.
This is where the garage experience is a little off, i also said when the car to do the driveshaft on that side as it was weeping (I knew a charge for this as above and beyond the box) So got the call of the Garage with regards to the gearbox mount, inspected and found no issue, so were going to strip and re-build for peace of mind. Anyway got back from time away and still no call from garage, so phoned asking etc and also ask'd price for shaft seal etc, this is were it pissed me off - oh i forgot to mention that let me check (Had already the car a week) Erm we can get the seal for the following day as showing stock wo ready the following day. Bit pissed off but no real issue, got a lift to work etc. go all through the day with no call, so called up at back of 3, erm part never got delivered so be the following day. I got miffed now as they had the car over a week and still not got it done (also lack of updates etc) so again the following day still no call all day, so phoned half 3 and art was in, but car on ramp - so said i'd call back in hour to advise on me heading down. (Got the car Back) But really poor service from customer point of view of being told to do the shaft seal from the get go - Really busy garage, seems to much work and not enough staff. Just don't understand why it wasn't all done at the same time!
Now that was a long read, now onto the latest, you would have noted i sorted the calipers with new seals a while back, but on driving home from work, getting brake system warning etc, great another leak, so checked all the wheels for fluid spray and low and behold the rear drivers caliper was leaking from the nipple. So tried tightening and nope still leaking, tried tightening again, and went from righty tighty, to righty loose. Great!!
Onto the usual breakers for the cars, and nothing for a single caliper, so into ebay with the part number - caliper for ÂŁ51 - the same but different in the fact it has the spring for the handbrake cable, other than that, exactly the same as a TRW one, still a 38mm piston so all good. Got it all sprayed up and on the car, and much better. However i'll need to replace the passenger side one too, just so fully refreshed. But what u did do with it - strip the arms for the handbrake cable, and completely full of shite behind the rubber cover, swapped out and cleaned all the build up and works like new. Anyway onto to some pics and the typical bodge to a leaky caliper to keep you on the road ha ha.
