So, many things happened today... Thanks to Sam for a few parts yesterday!
Swapped wheels front to rear, now have the 55s on the front and 50s on the rear which levels the ride so it looks slightly less ridiculous (I hate 50 profiles haha).
Painted brake calipers in Gold as I had some lying around. Not to everyones taste but idc lol.
Put plenty of Cera-Tec on the totally dry new pads (wtf??) so now they no longer scream. Cable tied the brake cable/pipe bracket on the strut as that had been left hanging. Lost one of the anti rattle clips when refitting the rears though, will that matter do we think? It pinged off up North somewhere never to be seen again lol.
Found out there are no rear arch liners! And the boot carpet is wet! So ripped out the trim to find a good solid rear arch. Phew...
Turns out it's coming in further back, through the plastic caps where the side bumper bolts are, not much I can do about that unless I find some liners, dried out the boot for now anyway.
Fitted a splitter
Fitted an air filter!
Cable tied top of rad in.
Cable tied grill in.
Removed slack from accelerator cable.
Checked oil - very clean, has only done about 2k since it's last change.
Someone had fitted a new hockey stick clip wrong so I refitted that, no more loose stick.
Pulled the vents out and found someone just hadn't pushed them back into the ducts properly! So only needed to replace the 'face' on the passenger side one, then push both ducts in properly.
'Fixed' the slipping drivers seat with a random screw.
Was given two of those odd heater dial bulbs by the seller as neither worked...stripped down the dash, replaced them...and they still don't work lol. Oh well, they'll stay broken. I ended up dropping a part of the dials under the front centre console so had to remove all of that to retrieve it...found 2 of those little under-handbrake rectangles under there lol.
Tried a new mirror switch but no luck, they still don't work so I'll just push them into place once and leave it, not doing bloody door loom just for a mirror...if the window or cl stop then I will. Found out the passenger side window has been wired in wrong...you have to push up to get it down and vice versa!
Replaced the wiper stalk, and the rear wiper and rear wash wipe work, yay. Front washer only have 2 sprays on the screen, one doesn't work at all and the other cleaned my neighbours screen lol. Might put some mist jets on eventually.
Removed the clutch pedal spring, hasn't made a huge difference but the clutch will feel crap compared to the Focus one I guess lol.
Blower motor squealed like a bugger so tried dropping that out with limited tools...couldn't get access to the front bolt (could've sworn there were only 3, didn't remember the 4th!) so just pulled that as far down as I could and sprayed some WD40 in the motors general direction, I know it'll dry out eventually but it's silent again for now!
Checked bulbs, have a front fog and front dipped bulb out (only passed MOT last month!), not fussed about the fog and hopefully have a spare H7 for the dipped.
So, yeah, got a lot done today!! Hoping to take it to the retro meet on Wednesday if it's insured by then.
Next job is most definitely the door handle as not having one is extremely annoying lol.
Swapped wheels front to rear, now have the 55s on the front and 50s on the rear which levels the ride so it looks slightly less ridiculous (I hate 50 profiles haha).
Painted brake calipers in Gold as I had some lying around. Not to everyones taste but idc lol.
Put plenty of Cera-Tec on the totally dry new pads (wtf??) so now they no longer scream. Cable tied the brake cable/pipe bracket on the strut as that had been left hanging. Lost one of the anti rattle clips when refitting the rears though, will that matter do we think? It pinged off up North somewhere never to be seen again lol.
Found out there are no rear arch liners! And the boot carpet is wet! So ripped out the trim to find a good solid rear arch. Phew...
Turns out it's coming in further back, through the plastic caps where the side bumper bolts are, not much I can do about that unless I find some liners, dried out the boot for now anyway.Fitted a splitter
Fitted an air filter!
Cable tied top of rad in.
Cable tied grill in.
Removed slack from accelerator cable.
Checked oil - very clean, has only done about 2k since it's last change.
Someone had fitted a new hockey stick clip wrong so I refitted that, no more loose stick.
Pulled the vents out and found someone just hadn't pushed them back into the ducts properly! So only needed to replace the 'face' on the passenger side one, then push both ducts in properly.
'Fixed' the slipping drivers seat with a random screw.
Was given two of those odd heater dial bulbs by the seller as neither worked...stripped down the dash, replaced them...and they still don't work lol. Oh well, they'll stay broken. I ended up dropping a part of the dials under the front centre console so had to remove all of that to retrieve it...found 2 of those little under-handbrake rectangles under there lol.
Tried a new mirror switch but no luck, they still don't work so I'll just push them into place once and leave it, not doing bloody door loom just for a mirror...if the window or cl stop then I will. Found out the passenger side window has been wired in wrong...you have to push up to get it down and vice versa!
Replaced the wiper stalk, and the rear wiper and rear wash wipe work, yay. Front washer only have 2 sprays on the screen, one doesn't work at all and the other cleaned my neighbours screen lol. Might put some mist jets on eventually.
Removed the clutch pedal spring, hasn't made a huge difference but the clutch will feel crap compared to the Focus one I guess lol.
Blower motor squealed like a bugger so tried dropping that out with limited tools...couldn't get access to the front bolt (could've sworn there were only 3, didn't remember the 4th!) so just pulled that as far down as I could and sprayed some WD40 in the motors general direction, I know it'll dry out eventually but it's silent again for now!
Checked bulbs, have a front fog and front dipped bulb out (only passed MOT last month!), not fussed about the fog and hopefully have a spare H7 for the dipped.
So, yeah, got a lot done today!! Hoping to take it to the retro meet on Wednesday if it's insured by then.
Next job is most definitely the door handle as not having one is extremely annoying lol.