Fleet Occurrences

[Hooli]

Or just use the sump plug.

[Split_Pin]

My days of scratting about under cars are long gone. Unless I can at least sit upright then I farm the job out to my garage.

[Eddie Honda]

Have you found the leak yet?

Split somewhere or seal gone?

[Split_Pin]

No leaks found, the guy at the Rover garage had everything apart and all was dry. 99% sure it was cat piss, there are loads of the blighters around my bit and I've seen them doing it on other cars.

[Eddie Honda]

Eh? I was talking about your Laser oil suction pump! Have you been sucking up cat piss with it?

If it can't hold a vacuum, it's probably something simple. There's not many places where they will leak.

https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?thread ... ms.257284/
https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?thread ... ps.249433/

[Split_Pin]

Ah sorry I thought you meant my 75!

The cap that fits on top which the pump then attaches to is swollen or misshapen and doesn't fit properly over the o ring seal on the tank neck. The pump also won't sit tight or straight on it either.

[Split_Pin]

I was out in the garage this afternoon making a thoroughly average job of a diecast car restoration and I thought I might as well attend to the rusty rear wiper hole on the Corsa.

It's being slowly developing for years and the wiper itself had seized a long long time ago. As it's thin metal and a small area, I planned to cut back whatever rot there was, fibreglass from behind, P38 on the top and respray the lower half of the bootlid. If I left this until I got some welding apparatus in the new year, I bet I'd just make a warped holey mess, figuring that welding thin metal is something for the more experienced.

Here is what it was like. Giffer trinket wiper arm rubber sleeve caused this I reckon as it's the worst I've seen.

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Inner trim panel off with 2 torx and some poppers.

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Wiper arm off with a puller

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Obviously very seized

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Not as rotten as I thought

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Cut out the rot and also ground down some other spots

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Cleaned up the rust on the inside and applied some fibreglass matting.

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Next is some Isopon on top, a skim of filler, remove trim, locks and badges, then rub down ready for primer.

[Split_Pin]

More work on the Corsa boot today.

The P40 has sanded down quite well so I'm going to see if the primer has a high enough build to take a sanding rather than making it more proud with a coat of filler.

[Split_Pin]

Wouldn't let me attach more than one image, my phone upgraded it's software and it's gone all shit.

[mercrocker]

Good work on the Corsa, but what about the die-cast?!