The dog rough estate

[DeeTurbo]

Next on the list was the rear wiper, it was struggling to wipe then stopped working.

I took it apart and found the aluminium body had corroded and the corrosion had seized up the shaft.


I removed the shaft and cleaned up the bearings, lubed it up, put it back together and now it works lovely.


I also swapped the 20mm torsion bars for some 21mm ones I had to help stop the car dragging it's arse when I have it fully loaded. Yes I know I need to sort out the trim, I had some clips off eBay but where crap and didn't go in the door to hold the trim, need to go dealers for some.



Old next to the replacements.

Do you like my home made slide hammer made out of a bit of stud and a shaft from the trailing arm?

Whilst under the car I noticed,


Bloody drop link had snapped again, shitty Ocap parts.

The 20mm bars were set to 330mm via dummy shocks and I set the 21mm ones to 320mm to drop the rear down to compensate for the stiffer bars.


The fronts are on 40mm drop Gmax springs and the Dturbo dampers on the front drop the car another 20mm. When the rear was set to 330mm on the dummy dampers the rear was a little high, now it looks a little better. It should be lower but when I load it up it'll be on its bump stops, so it's a compromise.

Dam drop link.


Replaced it with a Lemforder one.


The OSR caliper doesn't seem to back off when off the brakes as it should and has now knackered the pad.


So could do with rebuilding that caliper. I've tried regreasing everything up and it seems a little better but it should be rebuilt to sort the issue.

When I did the heater matrix the uni joint didn't go back on the rack shaft in the right place so I took the column off and realigned it. At the same time I find the steering wheel doesn't come down enough so I spaced the out mounting points of the column down around 5mm.


Next on the list is sound, I've been meaning to put my old Alpine Type R's in for awhile now and I was thinking of placing an amp in the front to power them and I was thinking of mounting it under the centre console but the amp's a little to large to fit.



Next I though I'd try another amp in the cubby hole in the back.


I thought that looks really good.

I also tried the old amp rack and I would like to use them but they would get knocked about and when the car is loaded there will be a cooling issue as stuff would be covering them.