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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 15, 2019 12:51:26 GMT
Dave's driving her home as I type.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 15, 2019 15:13:33 GMT
Oh no he isn't...
C.
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Post by peppib on Jul 15, 2019 20:03:26 GMT
Handbrake spring missing so brake binding on. Got so hot it melted all the grease packed in wheel bearings so that ran out as liquid. 2 hours after I stopped drum was still too hot for RAC man to touch. A further hour before a recovery truck arrived and 2 hours after that I made it home. Was desperate for insulin
Just a routine day really!
Dave.
Trying to edit and somehow hit like button!
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 15, 2019 23:30:57 GMT
So sorry to read that. I thought she was running really well.
Chris.
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UMO 406G
Jul 16, 2019 0:35:30 GMT
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Post by peppib on Jul 16, 2019 0:35:30 GMT
She is running brilliantly
Shame about the wheel bearings! It got so hot it has melted the underseal off the back of the brake
Dave
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 30, 2019 17:32:55 GMT
She's back again. She's up in the air. She's got a wheel off. All we need now is......
Dun dun durr
UNCLE RON.
Full report tomorrow.
Chris.
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Jul 31, 2019 16:19:24 GMT
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Post by snoopy11 on Jul 31, 2019 16:19:24 GMT
She's back again. She's up in the air. She's got a wheel off. All we need now is...... Dun dun durrUNCLE RON.Full report tomorrow. Chris. It’s tomorrow and we are waiting |
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 31, 2019 17:21:51 GMT
Ron has been. Ron has wrought his magic. I have been gopher, cleaner, painter, teaboy and apprentice. First order of business, drum off. Dial gauge and check for roundness - acceptable. Hub off next. Well, hub off after a good solid 5 minute battle, before Ron took the breaker bar and cracked off the nut by appearing to tighten it. Left hand thread....  Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr  Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr Hub and bearings full of what looked like runny tar. This had once been grease, so yup, it got pretty hot. Carrying on into it, the cylinder was seized to the backplate (it should slide), the adjuster mechanism was seized, the nut into the cylinder was seized to the cylinder and the pipe, the clevis pin was seized in the handbrake rod, and the spilt pin seized in the clevis. It all came apart eventually. I stripped, cleaned and painted the backplate, whilst Ron freed up the adjuster mechanism and made up a new brake line.  Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr Everything got slathered with grease as appropriate, new cylinder and bearings mounted and back on the car it all went.  Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr The other side was stripped and cleaned and a new cylinder fitted. Again, plenty of grease to keep everything moving as it should. Bled off the system and found the n/s/r binding and slow to release..... We was not happy bunnies. Flexi pipe collapsed, so doing the one way valve thing. Titanic struggle ensued getting the old one off and the new one on. Bled the bralkes again and all was good with the world.  Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr The culprit. I hope she'll give Dave some decent service for a while! Big thanks to Ron. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 31, 2019 17:23:24 GMT
It’s tomorrow and we are waiting Anything to oblige. State of garage - reasonable. C. |
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Jul 31, 2019 17:41:50 GMT
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Post by peppib on Jul 31, 2019 17:41:50 GMT
Splendid work chaps
Look forward to driving her again
Dave
Should say that whilst Mo was up the air yesterday evening, so was I trying to re hang a curtain decorator had left dangling earlier in the day. Trouble was this old g1t couldn’t get down again. The fire brigade took 5 mins to arrive and 3 of them returned me to earth, then one climbed on coffee table and hung the curtain for me. They like to look after daft pensioners in these parts
Note to self - your body is not as young as your mind thinks it is so don’t do it again! 🤭
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UMO 406G
Aug 2, 2019 16:37:25 GMT
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Post by snoopy11 on Aug 2, 2019 16:37:25 GMT
It’s tomorrow and we are waiting Anything to oblige. State of garage - reasonable. C. Reasonable It had better be spotless. And I want proof Mo’s boot is tidy David |
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UMO 406G
Aug 3, 2019 12:30:06 GMT
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Post by peppib on Aug 3, 2019 12:30:06 GMT
 Untitled by peppiB, on Flickr There you go Snoopy Need most of that stuff removing IF I can find somewhere to store it Dave |
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UMO 406G
Aug 29, 2019 17:13:18 GMT
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Post by peppib on Aug 29, 2019 17:13:18 GMT
B@@@@@@@. Someone has caught Mo’s front bumper and pulled it out of shape and possibly twisted the mounts.
Great
Searching for a different bumper now
(Insert several Anglo Saxon words here)
Dave
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Post by dave1800 on Aug 30, 2019 11:09:18 GMT
Dave
Sorry to hear of your latest problem with "Mo". I see that Ray House has a rear bumper advertised on the LOCI site, maybe he has a front one too - but I understand it is collection only. Maybe worth a call if you can't find one elsewhere.
Watching a video I noted that a Mk 4 Mondeo has the mounted ECU inside the left hand side of the front bumper, so that's off my list of possible purchases when I return.
Good luck
David
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Post by andrewa on Aug 30, 2019 12:58:02 GMT
Ian Hammond on LOCI site has a load of stuff for sale including as new front and rear bumpers.
Hope you get it sorted without massive expense and aggro.
Cheers
Andrew
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