Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

It's getting very close now. Still waiting on the new ball joints though.

Rear strut brace, most of the suspension and the anitiroll bar put in today.

Gave it a good going over with a clay bar and polished and waxed the panels that aren't getting sprayed.

I managed to get a spot in my pal's place next Wednesday.

She's barely ran in!

Today, I broke something on my car. Or rather, it broke itself.

I managed to find one on sale on Micks Garage, I couldn't believe my luck. I shelled out for express delivery to celebrate.

I got it fully aligned today too, it felt like a new car for the quick spin down.

No, the neck snapped on me today on the way home from getting the alignment done.

I thought I was gonna be in for a nightmare trying to source a replacement. Parts can be tricky to find sometimes.

Yeah, I was thinking about how I could go about repairing it this evening but for 80 odd squid I just ordered a new one for peace of mind.

I'll pull the old one out tomorrow and hopefully the replacement comes on Saturday.

Thanks very much, I'm just winging it mostly if I'm honest though!

I'm raging, looks like DHL won't deliver my rad until Monday. Express shipping my arse. It's been in their depo since 12 o clock today, I thought they might have delivered it in the morning.

I need to get the car down to my pal's place tomorrow to get the bodywork started.

I'm gonna try and figure something out in the morning.

I didn't know collecting it from Ballyer was an option tbh. I returned something to the warehouse before alight. Shite.

There's another Prelude in the garage beside mine and my pal suggested I swap his rad into mine for a few days but I'm afraid his will just break in the same spot.

Fitted diesel struts and did up the parking brake on the S60. No pictures as I was on a time constraint

Shocks, easy to fit, nothing unusual. The parking brakes, fiddly. I also hadn't realised some moron was at them before, the last time I had trouble fitting them back, completely wrong springs fitted... Also in Volvo's infinite wisdom they decided adjustment of the shoes isn't necessary so use a solid bar with slots for the shoes; you can see it here. Makes setting them up and even fitting the disc back on lots of fun!

I helped, I promise.

Replaced the brake pads.

Replaced air filter.

Changed oil & filter.

Replaced oil drain plug with a quick release type.

Then decided to have a go at cleaning up the engine bay.

Ah right. I can see the appeal but wouldn’t be for me.

My latest car has a plastic sump with no drain bung, what a stupid fûcking idea that is

I did something not to my car, but for working on it. Been looking out for a cheap stand/tripod to hold my work light at a height. Plus, I've been looking for a bit of steel tube to extent the handle of my jack as it's very short for reaching in under the diff jacking point. Spotted a clothes rack in Lidl for €15 and an opportunity to kill two birds, with one clothes rack:)

It's worked out better than expected and lots of handy tubing left over too. I got mine in East Wall but they didn't have them in other branches I checked.