Quick message, my local Tesco\'s are selling 500ml bottles of T-cut for £1.24p (in the filling station), "Every little helps"!
Cheap enough!
How\'s the car coming on Steve?
It\'s still 2-tone! I\'ve been flatout busy for the past few months and so the important things in life have been coming second. On the plus side I bought BPA 702Y off the bay last week and so have been increasing my carbon footprint these past few evenings!
Fair play, that\'ll keep you busy then.
How\'s it drive?
Handles like a pig on roller skates with a fair bit of bump and grind, plus the clutch is a bit tired but I\'m one happy stress free guy at the mo\'
Hi Steve....I\'ll make you a multiple 1st Gen owner then. A rare privilege granted only to a few honoured individuals.
Cheers Dave.
Dave - I may not be a multiple owner for long as my wife is after the series 3!
Quote from: Steve-M;705835Dave - I may not be a multiple owner for long as my wife is after the series 3!
Hi Steve, no problem with your wife having a series 3 - just make sure it\'s a BMW though.Cliff
Quote from: Steve-M;705699Quick message, my local Tesco\'s are selling 500ml bottles of T-cut for £1.24p (in the filling station), "Every little helps"!
Visiting Tesco\'s superstore like we all do, I made a beeline for the aisle with all cleaning stuff (no not the household cleaning products - that\'s womens work or boy am I in trouble if her indoors sees this one) and came across a shelf with oil on it, the kind that we like run through our hands and carress the essential parts of the body - yep good old Castrol GTX right next to \'T-Cut\'. Brilliant I thought, a squeezy bottle of 150ml and guess what - £6.50 a tube! Yep left it on the shelf and went and bought some rubber gloves instead.Suppose the main difference being that this wasn\'t the filling station hey. Cliff:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle
I have been waiting for somebody to realise that they\'ve screwed up the price so have been buying a bottle with each petrol purchase (£25 as the tank leaks above that!), I guess I now have xmas presents sorted!:Santa
They could be giving it away for free...I still wouldn\'t use it ;)
Tend to agree - I\'m not a fond lover of it but I used it on \'JAZ\' after it had been laid up for a number of years parked under trees and it was terrific for removing tree sap and the odd area of hardened tar etc.
It was also great in the engine bay and brought it up like new. Cliff
Thats an idea! I\'ve never bothered with the engine bay, I believe steam cleaning does more harm than good.
But \'T\' cutting it?.....hmmmm......that suits my old josser "do a little bit today, a bit more tomorrow" mentality. Plus the results will be good if yours are anything to go by Cliff.
Whats the blue brake fluid then, in the Clutch reservoir?
Well spotted - never miss a trick. It\'s a high performance fluid which I used when I had Dolomite 1500 auto, mainly used for copper brake lines but also totally acceptable for more normal lines - Dot 5.5 if I remember correctly (I\'ll find container and scan information).
Quite honestly I much prefer to use high pressure jet washing but a little difficult with all those electrics around but I haven\'t actually touched the engine yet so that still to do. Engine bay took around 3 weeks to do (as you say, a little here, a little there - bruised and scratched fingers and back of hands) oh what a joy - worth it though.
Don\'t know whether you noticed that I\'d colour coded the plate infront of the radiator - could not understand why Mazda never did this from new as to me it looks better and was a no brainer (attached fotos show before & after).
Cliff
:Hammer
I think T-cut has a bit of an unjustly bad reputation, fair enough I\'d never pay full price as that would make it more expensive than "proper" compounds, but for this price I\'m happy to make use of it. If I\'m cutting the paint on a car that has some dents and blisters then it\'s fine in my book! To be fair, I\'ll make use of anything that\'s cheap or free!
PS It\'s good for polishing metal too!
Morning David, found the information for the \'brake fluid\' in the clutch master cylinder, it is a silicone brake & clutch fluid developed for dependable use by the military in the most extreme environments and was recommended to me for use with classic vehicles..... hmm so I gave it a trial and had no issues with it and here we are now.
Cliff
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Thanks Cliff. Looks good stuff. And it seems it will mix with traces of the old.
I\'ve always bled the brakes and clutch every 2/3 years to stop water absorption and more importantly corrosion in the back of the caliper pistons. This stuff says no need to do that again.....Hmm.....Info saved thanks.
Hi David, as I say, had no issues with this and thought to myself use the later technology to make a reliable improvement. Cliff
that\'s a very impressive engine bay.... very nice.
How is your battery held down?
Quote from: captainbizzaro;707900How is your battery held down?
Gravity:rolleyes:
Ha, well yeah I guess when the car is not in motion then gravity is on it\'s side. My clamp was missing too so it\'s sporting a nice tasty Lidl\'s ratchet strap now. Quality.
Battery is held down by the proper bracket. When foto was taken, the bracket was being colour co-ordinated to match (white).
Got it give it to you guys - don\'t miss much.
Okay for those who haven\'t already noticed, the battery shelf has also been colour coded white.
Cliff
When I was a kid my brother & I borrowed the battery from the old man\'s Rover SD1 (v8), we used for some hair-brained scheme, returned it and no-one new a thing until it came off the tray, hit the fan and wrecked everything and anything that got in the way! At least now on my RX7 I have a quality bungee strap to retain the battery.
Aaah I just upgraded from a bungee.
I\'m a bit jealous now Cliff-not sure paint takes to webbing though so might have to rock the blue on gold look for the foreseeable future. I did go and buy a bracket from RXMotors but managed to lose it on the drive home.:Hammer
I take it you fitted it and something wasn\'t tight enough?
Will keep alook out, if come across one I\'ll let you know.;)
Quote from: captainbizzaro;708001Aaah I just upgraded from a bungee.
I\'m a bit jealous now Cliff-not sure paint takes to webbing though so might have to rock the blue on gold look for the foreseeable future. I did go and buy a bracket from RXMotors but managed to lose it on the drive home.:Hammer
Well if u wanna make your bungee straps look like a factory fitment,wrap them in insulation tape,it\'s amazing what colours u can get now:p
:GiggleHa yeah cheers Stu, we might make you the Grinder of the 1st gen section yet!:Giggle
@captain bizz.
Theres a guy breaking a series 2 1st gen,in the items for sale section called INITALDRIFT.
Maybe he\'s got a battery clamp.?
ta stu..