I bought it from pug_306 because he had one at the correct ride height.

I had braided lines to go on as well and my flexis were so perished that I just went ahead and did them anyway.

I've never had the bleed nippled problem occur on 3 306s. Soak them in penetrant oil every day or two for a couple of weeks leading up to the job and they should release just fine if you gradually apply more torque gently. I did the same with the unions but a few were made of cheese unfortunately so me and my friend ended up cutting hard lines and fitting new unions and lines in some cases.

Also, lifting the beam on and off the car can be done alone if you're not bad at bench-pressing. I half-supported it with a trolley-jack and went for it and got there in the end.

I'd offer to come and help you but you're a bit far away!

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Was having a little read, re: your cigarette lighter, do you know you can move the fuse to make it permanently powered or accessory powered? And I dropped a beam by supporting the ends arms with stands and a jack on the beam, undid the mounts and lowered the jack, pivoting it down on the axle stands. It does catch the threads on the mounts but some wiggling fixed that

Thanks guys. It's been so long I've forgotten what I was trying to achieve!! I'll need to read back my own thread!

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Turned 40 and in true cliched fashion buying one of the cars of my teenage dreams!

Drive it loads and then do the jobs over winter.

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Fair enough!

Does Scotland have a summer?

It's one of those things that just seemed to generate loads of other little jobs while I did it. Eg. braided hoses turned into then having to replace lots of sections of hard line.

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It's all possible, just as always it's the little rusty or rounded off things that really slow progress down.
Soak absolutely everything in penetrant oil multiple times for weeks before hand, and be prepared to just give up and cut a whole union out and flare the ends of pipe and put new ones on and rejoin it if you have to.

I didn't know how to do hard brake lines before doing it, and it's really not difficult and actually very satisfying!

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MOT today.

Tester said the car was in great condition. No rust that he could detect. Been well looked after.

Failed on a brake line at the rear beam which i said they should just fix.
A few advisories (again brake lines and some suspension mount at the front - need to confirm which) but hopefully all stuff i'm going to sort anyway. Will chat to him in person when i get the car back to confirm the details. But glad there's nothing untoward going on.

Oh yeh the exhaust is blowy but he reckons tightening the clamp will sort that.

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Turned 40 and in true cliched fashion buying one of the cars of my teenage dreams!