Did you have any grief dropping the tank? I snapped the rear bolt on the brace on the hdi, but was lucky it left enough for a full nut engagement.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Good work mate

Want to come help me with mine? So many jobs, so little time!

Plus it seems everytime I attempt to do something with mine, something goes wrong, or stops working

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Nothing snapped,the rear one took abit of cleaning up but I did derust it when I had beam off last year

The bolts were quite loose tbh

Did consider replacing the tank under braces with new ones,untill I priced them on service box just over £100 for the pair



Yeah eng still in,that will be a job for another time

Using my daughters Clio shes currently still learning so its just sat there majority of the time

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Hurrah!

Rear brake lines nil, Pieman 2. Got them off with a bit of lateral thinking. The front unions were seized but the back ones were free at the compensator end. Undid the free ends, then rotated the brake lines off the seized union nuts.



After finishing that, did a quick bleed at the rear end, remembering to copper grease the bleed nipples. Ended up with a pretty firm pedal right off the bat - that's a good start. Will give it another cheeky bleed before MOT if I remember but it should be fine.

Whilst I was under there I fitted a new fuel filter - took a whopping 45 seconds including getting it out the box!

That said and done, I think she's ready for MOT! Can't remember what else I need to do, if anything!

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Leave an envolope with used £10 notes on the passenger seat?

Wahey.

Fast forwarding a few months here as it sat on the drive for a long time. My rush to get it ready for MOT led to a precautionary cambelt change. When I changed the belt with assistance from someone on here, the water pump turned out to be faulty. When I exchanged the pump and ran it up, the inlet cam pulley bolt worked itself loose and allowed the camshaft to be left behind by the rotating pulley. The resulting knocking noise was one of the worst you could ever hear an engine make.

I was out of time, and luck seemingly. I had to divert efforts onto getting the house ready to go on the market. A promotion at work too meant that the time had become a bit of a premium. I had worked out though that the noise was the sound of the cam pulley thumping the cam forward, which would jump forwards abd then be shoved by the cam pulley again, so there was at least hope.

About a week ago, I got around to retiming the engine with said assistant, and thankfully the engine was tap free with no damage. The relief was indescribable. A very lucky escape indeed. Still got a noise from the water pump which i'm not very impressed by, but i'm not doing it again just yet.

Having counted my chickens I spent the evenings this week trying to get the car clean and tidy for the MOT. She went in for test this morning and passed with flying colours. I had asked him to be extra critical, declaring that the entire front end had been apart and to please double-check things. He complimented my workmanship and found only one thing worth advising on, which was the front discs were corroded on the inside. I knew about this though, as they're the old ones off my HDi which were seeminly warped. I can now proceed and fit my new front brakes.

First MOT in my possession so it was always going to be a bit nervy, especially knowing the last MOT it had wasn't worth the paper it was written on as it was clearly dodgy.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

He asked to remain nameless so I respected that.

I can't do the weekend, but could probably help one evening after work if I knew when.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

And she's taxed.

Took the old girl out for a bit of a drive tonight. I was too late to get it across to have it tracked, so just took it out anyway to give it a run and start looking for niggles.

Drove it slowly for the first few miles, realised the noise i could hear was the arch liner having popped out and started to erode at an alarming rate on the tyre. Fail.

With an epic roadside cable tie lash-up affair sorted there I set off on the road again. Did a 30 mile loop with a stop check in the middle, and, well, couldn't find any issues lol. It's a hoot to drive, makes you feel like a hero with every input. The LSD works well, though it's going to take a bit of getting used to as it's very effective, much more so than the TorSen in my Rover was. Power is very progressive, and it takes off like a stabbed rat at 4K when it comes on cam. Quite happy with that really.

Took some nice pics whilst I was there.It doesn't look half bad in these photos, but it's dirty and sorely in need of some tlc.







The police made an appearance just as i was taking these photos. It's actually a bird sanctuary in market deeping, so i thought i was going to get some grief, plus only having been taxed today I was expecting the spanish inquisition but he just stopped, looked, and drove off. I should be less suspicious.

Yes I know the rear is high, got a lowered Xsara beam to fit at some point. The brakes are gay too so I need to fit my upgrade.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Thanks Mik.

It's been a long time in the making thanks to spending 22 months out the country since buying it in October 2010 lol. Was nice to actually drive it in semi-anger as i've been waiting a good period to do so.

Few mods left to go on yet. Exhaust isn't the best, but it's very quiet except for when hammering the loud pedal which is quite surprising.

I went to build this bas**rd thing inbetween buying it and finishing it. In reality, i'd probably have sold it if i Knew I was going away for that long.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Nice when it all goes to plan

Looks well in pics

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Good, cause it looks rough in the flesh!

Chris, for sure but looks like the diesels will meet first.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Ok so its been ages since an update.

car was working well for about a month after the mot, until one sunday night I went for a hoon in september. I had been giving it death for most of my 20 mile loop and was coming upto the a16, an arrow straight single carraigeway which is pretty busy on sunday nights. Having joined, I went to overtake a car (and to go and play with a porsche) and the wheels spun up at 50. Thought it was a bit odd so pulled back into the traffic and looked down to see the temp solid at 90. Having been giving it death, and looking at the gauge reading 80 not 15 seconds earlier my suspicions were aroused. The penny then dropped, the gauge was reading air temp... checked the heaters and yup, stone cold. the wheelspin was coolant going all over my wheels. With nowhere safe to pull over I had to drive almost 2 miles at 50 to nurse it somewhere I wasnt going to become roadkill. Once I pulled over, what was left of the coolant was trickling onto the floor. I was 4 miles from home so I limped it home with a combination of building up speed and killing the engine to coast for half a mile at a time on quiet back roads.

I killed it once getting to my street and pushed it to the house. Got the lower rad hose reseated and filled it with hot water to even out the cooling down. 3 mins later the hose popped again. Fearing the worst I pushed it on the drive and then later onto the road, for what turned out to be a couple of months. Was trying to sell the house, sold the tvr, ordered a new car, spent 3 weeks away over xmas, motd the hdi and found time just kept passing. Whilst I was away some s**tbag did this:



Recent events at work reminded me to enjoy your passions to the full. I contemplated breaking it but then I remembered how epic it is to drive, so tonight I found time and got around to filling it back up and starting it up. Imagine my relief when it started and ran up to fan temp gradually with no dramas. Need to re bleed it but step 1 is passed.

So thats the last few months! Need to move it to rugby then modify it more! That brings us up to an hour ago!

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)