Monday 25 August 2008

Wire things sometimes difficult?

Well, the back axle has now been changed, along with new hubs on the front.

It's taken about 2 weeks worth of evenings; and that includes stripping down the new axle and repainting it, and undersealing the bits of the car that can't be accessed with the axle in place.
All that's left to do is re-bleed the brakes as they aren't very efficient at the moment (they take a couple of pumps to actually do anything); and buy/fit a new handbrake cable, as I didn't realise that they were of a different length to cars with steel wheels.

Anyway - what do you think?! Apologies, these pictures have just been taken after the car was driven out of the workshop into the rain; so she's not very clean AND is covered in water!


I think it makes a huge difference from what they used to be like:



The car now sits a lot lower as the wheels are 14" as opposed to the 15 inch rims she was previously on: the car now looks a lot more sporty as she's so much lower!



Ooh and another thing; all of the side trims are now fitted, so on the whole, the car looks a lot more complete!

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