The dog rough estate

[DeeTurbo]

What a day I had yesterday, I didn't get home till midnight.

I rebuilt the rest of my spare axle and then fitted it to the car. As I was working on my own I thought it best to fit the cross-member and then build it on the car.

Old crusty beam.


Nice and clean.


I used the old arm stub to push the new inner bearings in.



Cleaned up the splines of the bars.


And the splines in the arms. If you look closely you will see a spline missing, I thought it took a lot of force to remove the bars out. I was ripping out a spline also.


Used my new jack to remove the old beam. Boy is it so much easier removing the beam with a good large jack.


Is this an MOT fail?


Beam less.


No more pics as I was rushing around to get it all done.

I was following an old guide on .net on how to lower your car to set everything up and I used the measurements on that.

I thought the front is on 30mm lower springs so I though I'd use the values for the 30mm drop but I missed the part were it said for 20mm bars so I made my dummy shocks to 320mm. When I nailed it all together again, dropped it on the deck to find it was exactly the same ride height as before! I couldn't use the measure from the arch to the hub method as the arm wasn't in the right place on the one side.

It was too late to do anything about this so it will have to be done another day.

I think the starting issue is due to the brown reply as I noticed the lift pump wasn't priming last night and sometimes PP2k won't connect to the ECU and that relay powers both. I'm thinking of wiring up an LED to the power to the pump to see if it's getting power or if it's the pump failing when it's not priming.

I might do a bit more to it in my lunch breaks but as it stands the cars not ready to take this weekend.

I also found another MOT issue, the rear N/S brake flexi has cracks along it so I'll be getting some new ones and I think I'll replace that rusty brake line to.

Ooh, I also need to get an ABS sensor as one was broken on the one side.

So jobs to be done ideally before the weekend.

• Fit ABS sensor
  
• Replace rear flexi pipes.
  
• Adjust rear ride height
  
• Replace bodged fuel pipes.
  
• Change brown relay.
  

And the turbo is still sounding loud for some reason, I thought after fitting the turbo gasket that would have quietened it down.