That, or he'll just build another one by next weekend
"Just bought a caterham chassis" thread coming soon
The most effortless donuts I think I have ever heard....
Amazed at how quickly it gets to 30mph on urban roads
Hope all ok with diff! A brilliant job, well done for the hard work.
I told him he 6 months ago he should have just bought a Caterham............ It would be cheaper!"Just bought a caterham chassis" thread coming soon
I told him he 6 months ago he should have just bought a Caterham............ It would be cheaper!
My idea of fun isn't thisNot at all, you wouldn't have had nearly as much fun
I love breaking sh*t!
Anyway, here's what I found when I pulled the backplate off the old diff yesterday
My idea of fun isn't this
Plenty of glittery stuff in there and the ring gear do not look good. Probably repairable though. A good wash out and it might run free.
Thats not bad at all, I keep meaning to update the 110 thread as I recently almost did a stoppie, After spending over 2h beating and hammering at the caps inside the axle housing as the whole casing expanded under the impact heres what I found, it drove 30 miles whining in this condition.
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And the offending item the bolt that used to hold the bearing cap that wasnt tightened.... M12 well it was...
Last time i use axles without splitting them ill tell ya.
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Keep at it, not be hard to sort it,
i guess the bearings likely overheated first and tightened ? the actual gears look 'ok' ?
take no mechanical advice from me though........ i raced (tried to) a car with a trailing arm cable tied out of the way (had broken off) on a live axle seven many moons ago.. i try to stay as far away from the mechanical side as i can !!
Great stuff, keep it up Once past MoT it's just "normal" tinkering left!
You need a "baby on board" sticker beside the "boost inside" one
Great thread, such fun cars to work on, and can learn so much from them. Enjoy seeing these coming in for mot, everyone of them has something different under the bonnet and running different specs. And have yet to see one fail (unless the emissions are off the scale)
keep up the good work
thanks man! I’m guessing you’re an MOT tester? Where do you work? I’ll be at Lisburn at 12pm Saturday - hopefully you’re there and can pass me
I am yeah (awaits all the haters) based in Coleraine (loads of hate coming now), just don’t be late or go to the wrong lane and you should be fine lol