On Friday I finished blasting the last caliper, applied the colour, rebuilt them with new seals and sliders and that evening installed them on the car as I was hoping the take the car to work to do the clutch and crank oil seals because of this I rushed getting them on the car and the paint hadn't hardened enough so unfortunately made a bit of a mess of it.
The other thing I wasn't able to do was put my new braided lines on, that'll have to be another day.
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They would have looked a lot better with the new discs and pads but I thought I'd leave the orginal ones in and get the full use from them before putting the new in also the pads a Ferodo and I've only bought bog standard Pagid.
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I got some stainless bleed screws to lessen the chance of them getting stuck in the future.
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On Saturday I got up late and by the time I got the car to work the day was getting up to 32c and I was struggling with the heat so decided against tackling the clutch change instead I thought I'd give the cooling system a proper good flush.
I stuck in Holts rad flush for the drive to work and when I got there I dropped the coolant.
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I then connected up some large bore pipes up to the block and used mains pressure to flush the system after removing the thermostat.
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I then disconnected the heater matrix pipes to flush that separately. There was loads of crap on the inside of the pipes.
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After flushing the system I thought I'd have a look at the clutch cable as I thought the routing wasn't great when I was under the car last also the clip that holds the adjuster had rusted away.
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![[Image: DSCN8064_zpshmzxxzhk.jpg]](http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/Dee_306/Cars/GTI6/DSCN8064_zpshmzxxzhk.jpg)
I also stuck a bit of chain lub on the fork shaft where the bushes are. I drilled a small hole in the bottom bush to spray the lub in through. I'm glad I took a look at the cable and lub'ed the bushes as the clutch feels loads better.
Before I did anything on the on clutch the pedal took 38kg of force to push down, it's no wonder my foot ached after driving the car a few times during the week. The Dturbo takes 20kg and my girlfriends 206 HDI with its hydraulic system only takes 10kg! Both cars have had recent clutches.
After I got all the air out the cooling system I had a lovely drive home.![[Image: DSCN8066_zps32emwh0h.jpg]](http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/Dee_306/Cars/GTI6/DSCN8066_zps32emwh0h.jpg)
The other thing I wasn't able to do was put my new braided lines on, that'll have to be another day.
They would have looked a lot better with the new discs and pads but I thought I'd leave the orginal ones in and get the full use from them before putting the new in also the pads a Ferodo and I've only bought bog standard Pagid.
I got some stainless bleed screws to lessen the chance of them getting stuck in the future.
On Saturday I got up late and by the time I got the car to work the day was getting up to 32c and I was struggling with the heat so decided against tackling the clutch change instead I thought I'd give the cooling system a proper good flush.
I stuck in Holts rad flush for the drive to work and when I got there I dropped the coolant.
I then connected up some large bore pipes up to the block and used mains pressure to flush the system after removing the thermostat.
I then disconnected the heater matrix pipes to flush that separately. There was loads of crap on the inside of the pipes.
After flushing the system I thought I'd have a look at the clutch cable as I thought the routing wasn't great when I was under the car last also the clip that holds the adjuster had rusted away.
I also stuck a bit of chain lub on the fork shaft where the bushes are. I drilled a small hole in the bottom bush to spray the lub in through. I'm glad I took a look at the cable and lub'ed the bushes as the clutch feels loads better.
Before I did anything on the on clutch the pedal took 38kg of force to push down, it's no wonder my foot ached after driving the car a few times during the week. The Dturbo takes 20kg and my girlfriends 206 HDI with its hydraulic system only takes 10kg! Both cars have had recent clutches.
After I got all the air out the cooling system I had a lovely drive home.