Recent content by TransAmDan

Welcome to Solent Renegades Car Club, @Malik86.

Meeting on the hill at Micks burgers to leave there at 8:15am to criuse down to the show.

Created a little Youtube video.

Done a few emergency stops on the drive way. Checked for any brake leaks. We are good to go. A little drive around the block at low speed. Was some noises like pads rubbing on the disks. That may just clear with driving. There was some smoke under the bonnet, like oil seeping out of the...

Looks like a good turn out. Did it take long to get there? In future years you will look at the fuel prices in that photos and think how cheap it was back then.

Residents interested in displaying a classic vehicle over 25 years old, or performing on the day are invited to contact the Council’s Leisure and Community Team by emailing leisure@fareham.gov.uk. Source of info:- https://www.fareham.gov.uk/latest_news/pressrelease/pr_20260709_1

Good question and I wondered that myself last night. Looking up rear discs on Rockauto they do seem to be vented. It does give me a thickness of 26mn so I can check that with what I have, perhaps wrong ones are in there.

Calipers are being a pain, the wind in tool dosn't appears to work with these. There is a twist gear shaft from the back. This appears to be open as far back as it will go. I have forced the disc in there while not on the car. There is no gap at all. Inner pad seem like it had no where to go...

Adding in the brake lines for the rear, new flexible lines. old one had become one. This was a tbborn one, even with mole grips on there. My aim here was it it didn't undo ith a pipe spanner it would be chucked. I would resort to just sving the bracket. Ready to cut the bugger off. One...

While in the door I found some original labels. The car was made in the last half of 1982, the US call it the 1983 model. I done if door was changed in 1983 or perhaps that is the model year which all matches. Odd the say 'repair order'

I had a floppy wing mirror, the whole housing would wobble. Today i made a video of dissasembling the door card and reassembling to tightend up the nuts. Thought the video would be useful for others as its always nice to know what you are going to come accross before you start the job. I wont...

Pads look fine. And no gaps behind them when located. After chatting to AI it said once the cylinder is fully refracted it's flush with the caliper. It showed me a winding in tool. So brought this arriving this morning. Hopefully it will give me that extra mm of clearance. Fou d a very good...

Anti rolls bar on there now, now bolts etc. all suspension stuff done now. Next is the brakes. It's wound in as far as it can go. Can't get the disc in-between. Needs about 1 more mm. Will research more and tinker more tomorrow. Did start it up again.

A lot of it together now. Guess what numptie forgot this part. Some bits will need to be removed to lower the axle and thread it in. Ill get back on it tomorrow.

Panhard bar on, and other beam above it. Shocks joined at that top. Next it thelower control arms. The lower control arms. Once on I'll slide in the springs before doing that lower shock attachment.