Bianca Ratlye

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I was indeed very lucky, it was part of the reason I didn't bother going back to it as i couldn't be arsed to face facts. I shouldn't really have been working on the car as much as I was in April as I should've been trying to sell the house in reality, that kind of forced my hand to abandon it.

Been out this evening and given all the brakes a damn good bleeding. Pedal seems better but not great, it's not lethal as such any more though. Chucked in 2 gallons of fresh VPower and got it running for a bit, checking all the lights etc and everything seems fine. Fuse 25 had blown again, wiping out the dash clocks and mileage, so I suspect one of the wires to the time clock has shorted out behind the dash thanks to the fuckknuckle of a previous owner.

Swapped out my OMP lower strut brace whilst I was there for a PhilipM one, mainly because the OMP one seemed to be touching the gearbox bellhousing, leading to all sorts of cabin noises that weren't particularly nice. Guess it wasn't really compatible with the 6 engine after all.

Replacement strut brace:


That said and done I set about getting rid of my black grimy hand marks on the body. I need to learn how to recover some sort of shine on the bodywork as it's unbelievably flat with nothing even resembling a shine.