What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[JETURBO]

Nice 

 

seen some crazy stuff in my time but just go the forklift instead ?

 

[bossmang]

bugger cant find the photo anymore

[El Andrew]

12 hours ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Remove the bumper cover, rotate the exhaust 90dege so the bends are horizontal and the opening the in the tube is facing the diff centre and swing the muffler out past where the bumper would normally be (it winds up sticking behind the rh rear wheel) start feeding the pipe over the cradle. Once you've got the flange past the cradle start to rotate the exhaust back into the correct position as you wiggle it forward. 

Thanks for that! The exhaust place around the corner said they would chuck it in for 50 bucks this morning. Ended up doing that because I'd been promising the kids I would get cracking on a cubby house this weekend and didn't want to piss more time away on the car. Probably for the best - they had a pig of a time getting it to clear the cradle.

 

For what I want, that exhaust is absolutely perfect. Sounds great at WOT and on overrun, but subtle in normal driving. Slightly meatier idle but not intrusive at all. Just need to muck around with the tailpipe alignment a bit.

 

 

[discostig]

Rolled tips FTW

[Wilko16]

ZF fluid change

4 litres out

4 new litres in

Drive around the block

4 litres out again

4 new litres back in

Another drive, nice smooth gearshifts

Well worth it :-)

[NathanB]

Filter is much cleaner now photos don't do it justice. Thing was filthy!

[discostig]

Yesterday, but anyway

 

 

Car suddenly started sliding out around a corner, can see it wiggle a bit before I caught it here on dashcam.  The unrelated rumble before turning is the dodgy road surface on the right hand side, rumbling after corner is the tyre!

 

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Pulled over after the bend, gingerly...

 

 

 

 

 

Swapped out to the stylishly mismatched spare on the side of the road.  Very lucky a tyre shop was literally 1km away.

 

 

 

Seems I had a nice hole in the tyre I didn't know about!  Flat, overheating tyre = no integrity = unexpected drift competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annoyed I didn't feel it...but glad the Advan rim was unaffected!  Cleaned it and looked for damage, all good.  High profile 245/45/17 FTW.  Tiny bit of rash but I've copped worse from the narrow roads I'm having to park on at work now.

[El Andrew]

+1 for having an impact wrench in the car 

[discostig]

Hahah yeah it's a cordless drill, happy coincidence since I've been using it at work a little I decided to leave it in the car, and previously bought the adapter kit so it can take 1/2, 3/8 and 1/4 inch sockets for faster home wheel removal/refit if servicing brakes etc.

 

The new rims require a thin deep socket to remove the nuts so that lives in the car on a bar too, easy to swap over.  Just missing the torque wrench from the wheel change kit now, not keen on leaving that in the boot to get hot/cold all the time.

[discostig]

Out with the old

 

 

 

in with the new

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS 

Got my money's worth!