sladey
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Could possibly be the wrong inserts? I know you need to get inserts for boge struts or bilstein struts but I don't know the difference between the two - maybe one is longer? OR something could have dropped down inside the insert before it was fitted and it's forcing the shock up (You'd think that would have been checked when fitting them though)
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Look cool
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Eroded Porsche, an interesting art piece
sladey replied to Ian Comerford's topic in Impact Driver Chat
What a load of borlocks. He's doing exactly what all the rest of us have been doing for years and calling it art. "signature touches" used to pish me off but this is way worse than that -
Wot Jon said - lovely to see the orange moving again
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Wot they said
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How little did you pay for your IB (back in the day) ?
sladey replied to GaryH's topic in Impact Driver Chat
14,200 on 19th December 1999 at the time that seemed to be the cheapest (decent) G50 car around. I was so excited. Since then it's been triggers broom, Couldn't guess at how much I've spent on it. Still on original gearbox though at 320K miles. -
Interesting stuff - glad you got it sorted. I had the same issue about 15 years ago and it was one of my worst times with the car - really hard to diagnose. There are tests in Bentley but when doing them we underestimated the cooling ability of the engine and it wasn't up to temp when we did the tests. Wayne Schofield identified the problem in a few minutes and verified it by putting a resistor across the CHT terminals which fooled it to thinking all was well - the problems disappeared straight away. Anyway - really glad you got it sorted
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Love those seats Ian
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my best guess would be that the braided one plugs into the back of the intake system - vacuum as Nige says On the smooth one my guess would be that it should go round the other side and connect into something around the oil filler neck. I had a similar problem on a previous engine build - there are several pipes that connect in around there - easy to check if you've got any open holes round the back of the oil filler neck - with mine because it was on the far side (as you're looking into the engine bay) I just didn't spot it HTH
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Just read that - excellent balanced article. Never been into formula 1 but love the drive to survive series and currently catching up on 2023. Next season should be good!
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Nice.
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liquid wrench. Presumably stateside only
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I had mine rebuilt at bilstein earlier this year - from memory it was £95 per shock. They are only at Leicester near the M1. There's a guy there called David who really knew his stuff. on the plus side they are a gazillion times better - the old ones were apparently utterly shagged On the minus side they didn't do anything about the external appearance. There are more details on my DDK build thread - it was only this spring so it's near the end of the thread - Sladey's 3.2 backdate hotrod
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fascinating
