O2GO

Day in the garage getting grease under my fingernails today.

Figured why the previous owner of BB swore so much. Changing the brake pads is a mission vs a PCar. Rediculously the rears need you to completely remove the calipers and installing the new pads is really fiddly. Took me a couple of hours to change the fronts and rears. The fronts still had a fair bit of meat on them so could be used again but I figured its so much easier to replace them while in a garage with time available.

The onto Lola with mixed success.maim was to replace the right wishbone and get the wheel back on the car.

Unfortunately the wishbone suppled had the ball joint for the wheel carrier installed upside down (for left side, instead of right) and one of the bolts will need to be pressed out. Something I can't do. Tried a light attack with a mallet but it wasn't budging.

So then decided to have a crack at removing the steering rack after reading up the workshop manual on how to do it. Got stumped when trying to disconnect the universal joint behind the pedal box. Need a monkey to get in there to do that job so will get some poor bugger from CCS to come and do it.

Stripped and cleaned the wheel carrier, no sign of cracks or anything untoward which is good.

Now have feet up with a couple of beers and somewhat satisfied with the day's work.

O2GO

Website or Spark problems uploading images. Giving up :-(

Maxem

Nice work Doug, should be good as new soon. Maybe we can debut our "new" rides at the same time?

Spark is patchy, same probs as you.

gt38088

could be worth getting some components to be crack tested Doug? I have just done that on a few things on the Fraser and do same with the steering rack on Targa car

Maxem

Brown.

Macca

Great work Doug. That caliper looks like it could do with some cleaning up. This may be a good opportunity to get them all stripped cleaned new piston seals fitted and repainted while you have the downtime....

spark is hopeless. They are having a massive dNS attack according to the 123 helpline - thought I was returning to the first world! After the last few weeks of perfect weather and 30c days must say it's fairly chilly too!

Both cars ready to go. Being on NITT and banish the rain!!!

John McM

Quick break from painting. Three rooms have no windows so not much time to rest.

I need to get a C licence as well. I'm keen on a group test. Terry said a while back he could do it for us. Seems like Dave and Doug have been very active. We'll all be ready for a rest tomorrow afternoon. See you there.

O2GO

I've got a lot less to get done so hope to beat you (although need to get your car out of Steve's workshop to make room for mine, ha ha) but it would be cool to debut together all right.

I've heard people talk about crack testing Graeme. How's it done?

It was warm today Macca. You are too soft :-)

Yep cleaning the callipers up and repainting them [red] is the plan along with upgrading the rears to two pot C4 callipers. Need to get the rears from Steve so I can attack all four together.

Ralf G

You put some dye for crack testing on the part and then wipe it off. If there is a crack some dye stays in the crack. You then can see the crack with the bare eye or under UV light, depends on the crack and dye. The part needs to be clean and grease free for that.

gt38088

agree with Ralf. Not sure if there are any more specialized things that are done as my shop does send parts out for testing - like the crank - when engine as being rebuilt. check with Steve to see what he does?

CS Mende

Have fun out on the boat today! Fam made plans for me, so I'd be wise to accept them.

MX72 is what I loaded up on all four corners the other week. Another data point to look at after NITT as they are basically untouched so far and new discs.

My audio conversion has been going slow - gotten used to audio quality of a single iphone/pad speaker! Not quite the same as ribbon speakers and a nice old tube amp.

All my Floyd is FLAC. Everything else mp3 suffices.

+1 Want to get a decode from you some day on braking moments there!

I'm in.

Looks great - I need a fiberglass course from you some day ...

Obsessed

If I'm understanding you audio freaks properly, MP3 128 is more like cutting the cheese than cutting the mustard, and I should stop ripping CDs to it? It was The Shiz back in 1998 because you could download a whole song on dialup in less than an hour!

Obsessed

Dave, sorry to say I was in at EP on Friday.

Me: "Has anything changed with Dave's car since I was last in?"

Dan: "No."

He did assure me that the painting work would start within a couple of weeks though!

mjg

MP3 at ~256kbps with a modern encoder (e.g. LAME) is virtually transparent to almost all listeners, and 320kbps is near archival quality. The advantage stuff like AAC and Opus provide are better quality at lower bitrates. People who claim they can easily detect differences at those MP3 bitrates are swimming against established science and testing procedures. Same with >44.1/48kHz sampling rates, >16-bit sample precision, etc.

Maxem

Thanks. Might be time for a proper schedule i think.