Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Bonnet in service mode to get easier access to the master cylinder for replacement:



Access is unreal with the bonnet like this:







My first time working with brake lines, got some flared spanners which makes it nice and easy.

Has anyone any experience replacing seals in a master cylinder with a repair kit? Something tells me i'm better off just going with a replacement unit. (Spongy brakes)

@Voodoomelon, what engine is in that machine?

Voodoomelon wrote: »

728i, so 2.8l straight six, M52. Not much low end power, but silky smooth.

Cool car, looks very clean and tidy.

A guy I know has a '00 740i since new (or very close to it)

Amazing looking car, only has something like 80k miles on it.

Found a use for my darkness into light tshirt.

Full set of front wheel bearings and seals fitted to the 'cruiser today
Needs new manually locking front hubs. They must have ingested some crap when I was wading through a metre of muddy water :eek:

Bought these but might get my Indy to do them. Still undecided. Getting the old ones out without the right tools looks like a pain. Hopefully will help freshen the car up.

It's the whole lot to be honest. Rear subframe needs dropped which is a big enough job for the home diyer. Then getting the old bushings out without the proper tools looks a nightmare. Lot of fellas burn them out.

Done a nice few bits today...

Started with a bit of cleaning around the Honda, feeling rather swanky vacuuming the crisp lines in the seats


The car also smelt a bit dodgy since the day I got It, it always smelt a bit like an old people's home or something, but lately it had got unbearably like feet, so I think it was a bacterial thing in the A/C so I splashed out on one of these. Cabin filter didn't look too bad, was expecting to find a dead animal in it, so I gave it a hoover and put it back.




And I done a small bit of "PDR" too, there was a massive but very subtle dent in that door that you could only see from certain angles in a certain light but it was really ****ing me off, so a couple of tugs in the right direction and hey presto! Still a small crese near the bottom but 80% better at least.


And you can read about my brake debacle in the other thread.

Toyotafanboi, I'm impressed with the lavatory dent removal tool!

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Have you done a trans fluid and filter change before, i'm sure you have at this stage. An infrared temperature reader is a must.

Not myself but my mechanic, I know the ins and outs though and shouldn't be too much hassle if I use the lift in work but it'll more than likely just go to my mechanic.

Forbthose of you following my rear pads thread ( http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=103623843#post103623843 ) with abaited breath :

This was my first time to work on my brakes on my toblerown having watched it being done around 5 million times previously.

I cut out fibreglass sheets into something that resembled a circle and whacked them onto the inside of the backing plate. Plastered with resin then painted on both sides with straight to rust paint. I had to wait for it to dry before I could trim any strangely fibres.



Put it all back together making numerous novice mistakes along the way.



Made a few lots of novice errors along the way. The biggest one was ****ing around with a pliers to rewind them. Spend another hour dicking around with them, ripped one of the piston boots in the process then and only then decided it was too late and went into town, bought a rewind tool and had both pistons back flush within several seconds of opening the box.

I forgot to put the discs back on in such a fashion as to use the locator screws, but I think they don't do anything after the disc is mounted so I worked away without them.

Took the car out for a spin of around 5k and the brakes still feel a good bit softer than they did before the work I reckon but I hope that will fix itself with a bit of driving.

Handbrake feels very much tighter.

Fibreglass kit €16
Rustolum paint €9
Brake pads €28
Rewind tool set €75

Changing your rear pads yourself - priceless.

MR2 spoiler delete

Unfortunately i have no pictures, but i cut the middle box/resonator out of the GTI and had a piece of pipe welded in. Gives the exhaust a nice little rumble down low in the rev range and a nice pop on gear change with the DSG box.

Ms jou complained about keys that came with her car. Ebay got it sorted.

Old vs new:

Did the front pads but forgot to take any pics

shietpilot wrote: »

Picked up an Mtech bumper for the E36, in the wrong colour of course

Great result! Where did you get the paint made up and what kind of money? Thinking of doing the same for a door sill and mirror covers.