*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

fancy pigeon wrote: »

As in the upper arms are on the wrong sides?

Make sure you have the bolt going the other way too, for future arm changes you won't have to remove the strut...

No just the top mounts themselves. Just had to re-compress the springs a bit and spin them around. It was a 10 minute job but I don't have compressors so had to head up the road and it was near dark when I got back, so I'm no further than I thought I was this morning . Hopefully it's a dry one tomorrow.

I know what you mean by the bolt alright. It's a feckin trade in itself this front suspension . Hopefully won't have to touch them for a while. Fitted 2 brand new meyle top arms. You were right about the them knocking that time. The ARB-Bushes are fine. I had 2 decent donor top arms stuck in but if they went in the next few months, after the shock bursting, I'd loose patience with it!

I fitted 2 good as new lowers and drop links, both less than 6 months old. More or less just lying up on the donor car since it came of the road.
New red eibach springs.
Couldn't even get at the ARB bushes with the engine out so left them alone . They looked perfect. Steering rack bolts were siezed and I had enough to be doing . Shocks looked good and passed an NCT this year.
The donor top arms had a tiny bit of play in one of the ball joints so I scapped them for the new ones.

What cuold posisblye go worng?!

We could here the bang between each gear in mondello when powering out of the hairpin sure.
Sounded good, not e36 good but good nonetheless

vintagevrs wrote:

What did they do?

Nathin, was in college. A few of us went out to a forest, in a little entrance off the road and stupidly left the car lights on. Had the tree loaded and all, and the squad car comes in behind us. They searched the car, and us, from top to bottom, thinking that we were doing drugs. When they seen that we were only after a tree their response was, I remember it to this day, and I quote "I couldn't give a fcuk if ye cut the whole fcuking lot of them down as long as ye weren't doing drugs" Good times, still scared the shyt out of us though!

fancy pigeon wrote:

A foulmouthed and pissed off pigeon at the ticket machine to find that the price of parking had gone up unexpectedly was immediately calmed down by a kind gentleman whom gave me the change I was short for parking

I paid 16 euro needlessly for parking a few weeks back. Was a worse feeling then that of stubbing your baby toe!!

fancy pigeon wrote: »

A foulmouthed and pissed off pigeon at the ticket machine to find that the price of parking had gone up unexpectedly was immediately calmed down by a kind gentleman whom gave me the change I was short for parking

Thank you, you sweet old gent its so nice to know there are kind people out there

Happened to me in Kilkenny yesterday, had no change, the meter didn't take notes and wouldn't take my card, was about to send one of the kids off for change, when a very kind lady gave me €2.
There are still some nice people out there

I will be doing automotive archaeology tomorrow, if you know what I mean.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

make sure you video the pube test!

did you buy something?

I guess that's a reasonable assumption. :pac:

I hope there's no pubes.

Pics and info in the morning. It's not German. Not Jap or Italian either.

GvidoR wrote:

Pics and info in the morning. It's not German. Not Jap or Italian either.

Ah don't be at that shyte, tell us now!

Something like a 206sw

colm_mcm wrote: »

Something like a 206sw

Dare I say... 206 sedan

The jig is up. It's a City Rover.

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