Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

[Eddie Honda]

If buying P bushes without the arms, find the part number for Berlingo P bushes. They are far more substantial and last a lot longer.
I had numerous 306i back int day and it was a common upgrade.

I'm aware of those and I'm aware they have a M10 X 1.25 X 16 bolt instead of M8.

[Eddie Honda]

Tommy's Jaaag update.

Big Tim came and picked up Jaaag last week to take it back to Bute, got a mile up the road and water and steam were pishing oot. Hose had split. Managed to get it back here but he didn’t want to start fucking about with things as he had no tools and looks like it’s paired up with leccy wires running to a relay in front of air filter. I’ve had quick look and got as far as taking off air filter, etc., so I can see it and also access wires and relay. Going to have a look shortly.

Bloody car-less as have fitted new rear calliper and pads to Rangey [L320, I think. EH] as was grinding like fuck! But also fitted new ride height sensor to front left and it's made things worse not better so now am fucking limited to 30mph first off needs recalibrated and hopefully be ok but if not then who knows, could be compressor, blah blah. Would have helped if I had just got tracking sorted first because I’ve now seen while messing about underneath that it’s way, way out and that’s probably all the problem was in the first place and I’ve now created a nightmare so now have 3 motors outside my door, none of which can currently drive to Oban on Wednesday morning

NB: "Big Tim" isn't physically big, nor a fervent Celtic fan, but Tommy's dad. Third vehicle referred to above is a Mitsubishi Pajero that has a broken end of the gear selector shaft.

[AutoshiteBoy]

A Pajero going wrong?

[Eddie Honda]

Yup. Click link below to jump back in time:

https://thedarkwob.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... 551#p63551

[Eddie Honda]

306 update.

I was cutting the grass, but as I had some fully charged batteries handy I decided to fire up the Pug. Not instead of, but if I could shift it back, it'd make the cutting easier.

The car's Exide battery went in and cranking commenced, but it wasn't getting close to firing. Well it had been some time since I last started it. (Mibbie a year?) After a good while of cranking it was slowing up a bit, so I brought out the Volvo battery to jumper and help things along. Cranking over faster now, with the odd cough, it soon fired and ran. So I moved it back, cut the grass, then moved it forward.

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A bit of that broken spring that must of fell out when I moved it.

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[paulplom]

What happened to the wing and the wheel?

[Hooli]

Easier to load on the flatbed for scrapping now it moves.

[Eddie Honda]

What happened to the wing and the wheel?

Wing was probably reversed into by some cunt whilst parked up outside Tommy's, It'll pop out when I get behind it. The wheels are a set of four steel Citroen C3 wheels from the scrapper.

I got a flat front driver's one night coming home from work, couldn't change it, but managed to pump it up and got it hold air to get as far as home.

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so had to put the ancient steel spare on. That was an original Pirelli, but fucked.

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Yes, that is a three digit tyre code: "298"

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Then I decided that I might as well get the alloys sorted out whilst I'm at it. Because of Sir-Mix-A-Lot


The KUMHO SOLUS with the bulge.

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FIRESTONE FIREHAWK 700

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THREE-A

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ROVELO with bonus dinged rim.

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The nearest thing with the right sort of offset that'll do are C3 wheels. Got a set of four

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then had to get a pair of rear tyres for the set as two of the tyres were a bit iffy. Ended up with a pair of WINRUN which are on the back.

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Which is why the car is looking like this:

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Still haven't found a place that'll fix / powder coat the wheels because blind-centres: Cyclone 2s have no middle hole.

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It also means nae cunt bothers to balance them.

[Eddie Honda]

Easier to load on the flatbed for scrapping now it moves.

Fuck off, did you see the VRT bill?

[Drum]

Yes, that is a three digit tyre code: "298"

Looks like 228 to me.

What's the significance of three digits?