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Lovely detailed work

As James notes my car woes had started by this point but I wasn’t ready to give up (just!) yet… and the roads were just amazing, so I just reduced the pace a little. Following Sladey in his GT4 was amusing as I was exploring every ounce of my underpowered 52 year old car whilst he was tickling along...

If you are worried take it to a reputable machine shop to check. I’m not sure even the best home methods will be close enough to either confirm or deny.

sladey wrote:
First (unsuccessful) go at fixing Boydys fanbelt

Using absolutely everything except the right tool !


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I’d choose the Portsmouth- St Malo route mainly as I hate ferries! Going out at least this means you turn up in the evening, watch the sunset then wake up in France at 8 having cut out a good chunk of miles and a night in a hotel. We pressed on that day down to just outside Bilbau, a solid 9.5 hours...

I think the greasy fingerprints over the dishwasher tab box might be a clue…. It’s easier to clean the valves once you’ve stripped the heads. Pop them in a drill mounted on your vice then use another drill with a wire brush attachment and the they come up lovely. It also gets all the deposits off th...

What about the handbrake job done just before the trip? I can see a tick tick from that before the diff. Just a thought. Absolutely, it’s normally the last thing you fixed that goes wrong. I’ve pulled the RHS off before I started taking it all apart and all looks good. No contact marks anywhere. Ha...

Odd the output bearing has run on the shaft, but that imho might rumble than tick. I guess the frequency of the tick increases with speed of turn? I’ve had the same swarf on the mag plug in my Lola box, was synchro wear. Fingers crossed for you, but I would expect a total strip soon. I have a Quaif...

As part of the investigation I stripped and regreased all the CV joints (fun!) Nothing of note except some minor contact between the end of the shaft and the grease cap on the outboard end. So I added a little more clearance. These caps are later parts that don’t quite fit into the outer stub axles ...

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240518/a48c99c5a1d018f958a937bd91c33f41.jpg So in detail there is some evidence of surface damage on the sun/planet gears, but that could have been there for years, certainly not one tooth only with a bit missing or anything. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240...

I’ll pop up so photos from the Euro drive once everyone is back, but my own journey was cut short by a loud mechanical clicking noise when you turn right. I’d made it all the way down to the Pyrenees and had a wonderful couple of days in the mountains, but after some ‘spirited’ driving keeping the m...

I polished and greased my balls



Having already pulled the diff out…


Trying to find a noise that cut my Euro trip short!

Yes, within a couple of mm of the radius

Not sure what is original, but I went for stone chip (Raptor) to just inside the radius and then painted it body colour to the inner lip.

You can’t tell unless you really look for it and the protection is infinitely better.

Drove to Spain. As you do.